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LAW OFFICES OF ELLIOT
J. ABELSON Robert S. Minton
Dear Mr. Minton: You appear to have undertaken the financial maintenance of a significant number of litigants adverse to Scientology Churches in the United States. You have even become the patron “dog and pony show” witnesses without legal claims, like the Youngs, who instigate disputes and sell their testimony to the litigants you underwrite. You’re now even financing the travel of hate-filled individuals, some of whom have already been prohibited by courts from committing further acts of violence against members of the Churches of Scientology, from across the United States to the Church of Scientology’s premises in Clearwater, Florida. You are, in this manner, a responsible party in fostering a climate of hatred in Clearwater, which endangers our staff and parishioners who work and live there. The distraction to
Church ministers and parishioners engaged in religious services by the
potential hate crimes committed by the individuals you are financing,
would not be occurring were it not for you going out of your way to foment
their irrational hatred. If you have not realized it before, then recognize
now that this creates a serious potential liability for you. A number
of those with whom you have associated yourself through your patronage,
such as Dennis Erlich and Keith Henson, have engaged in threats and acts
of violence, attempts at intimidation and scandal-mongering. Association
with lawbreakers such as these, combined with the monetary demands that
inevitably accompany their involvement in litigation or similar fertile
areas for attempts of extortion, make your actions of interest to the
prosecutors to whom such conduct has My client holds you,
your associates and backers, financial or otherwise, personally responsible
for any and all damages it has suffered or will continue to suffer as
a result of your tortious officious intermeddling in Church litigation.
The Church will not tolerate such conduct. I demand that you imMediately
withdraw all financial support for such matters and am warning you that
you and those you’re financing have crossed the I advise you to inform me forthwith what you have done to cease fomenting and financing unlawful attacks against my client. Very truly yours, (signed) Elliot J. Abelson
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