Turan Corp. Connection to the Religious Bigotry of Robert S. Minton

Robert Minton, A man with links to Turan Corporation's Robert Smith, has blatantly lied to the American public and media about our Church, its members, its goals and actions. We refuse to allow our religion to be smeared and maligned any longer.

Minton has held himself out on national television and to the press to be an upstanding citizen, but he is using his many millions of dollars to force his bigoted views onto our Church and its parishioners to "reform it." (Most ironically, Minton is not and has never been a member of our Church and has no personal first hand knowledge of its teachings and activities.) He promotes an agenda of bigotry.

Minton told the media that he was coming to the aid of two poor Church detractors, Vaughn and Stacy Young, by purchasing them a $250,000 house in Seattle, Washington plus giving them tens of thousands of dollars in cash to support them.

What Minton didn't say was that his money also bought a very expensive mistress and married woman who split up with her husband of 20 years after spending yet another weekend with Bob Minton in New Hampshire recently. While deceptively portraying himself on television to be a happily married family man with two young daughters, in reality Minton was regularly flying Stacy Young around the country engaging in these trysts whenever he felt like it.

Robert Smith, the head of Turan Corp., touted Minton as a "Man of Principle" in a newspaper article. Yet, as we have explained, these principles include lying to the American public and media as well as a special amorous relationship with Stacy Young.

Minton and Smith did business in Nigeria. Minton made a lot of his money, he says, by helping the country's dictatorial leadership to successfully default on multi-million dollar loans. Everyone with the inside knowledge benefited but as event and statistics show, the people suffered. While millions were siphoned off in "commissions," and lenders had to write off huge losses, the leaders of the country completely ignored the human suffering and misery of its citizens. Is this how a man of principal acts?

Minton has demonstrated that truth has no place on his agenda. This is just one example. We will keep the public informed about the real Robert Minton in future editions of this leaflet.

By the Free Speech & Religious Freedom Committee of the Parishioners of the Church of Scientology of Boston