{"id":5442,"date":"2009-05-26T23:05:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-26T23:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2009\/05\/26\/church-of-scientology-on-trial\/"},"modified":"2009-05-26T23:05:54","modified_gmt":"2009-05-26T23:05:54","slug":"church-of-scientology-on-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/26\/church-of-scientology-on-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Church of Scientology On Trial for Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>France&#8217;s Church of Scientology today went on trial on charges of organised fraud in a case that could lead to the nationwide dissolution of the controversial organisation.<\/p>\n<p>The Church&#8217;s &#8220;celebrity centre&#8221; spiritual association and its Scientology Freedom Space bookshop in Paris stand accused of targeting vulnerable people for commercial gain.<\/p>\n<p>Six leading members, including the celebrity centre&#8217;s director, Alain Rosenberg, also face charges of illegally distributing pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2009\/may\/25\/scientology-france-fraud\">source<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>France&#8217;s Church of Scientology today went on trial on charges of organised fraud in a case that could lead to the nationwide dissolution of the controversial organisation. The Church&#8217;s &#8220;celebrity centre&#8221; spiritual association and its Scientology Freedom Space bookshop in Paris stand accused of targeting vulnerable people for commercial gain. Six leading members, including the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/26\/church-of-scientology-on-trial\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Church of Scientology On Trial for Fraud<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2486],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1pM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}