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Fair Game

Episode 29: Journalist Tony Ortega

Fair Game

Leah Remini & Mike Rinder

True Crime, Society & Culture

4.89.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

Leah and Mike talk with Tony, who over his decades of reporting on scientology has become an expert reporter in the world on the subject. He has a daily blog about scientology, wrote an excellent book about Paulette Cooper, the poster child for scientology Fair Game. He has been subjected to Fair Game campaigns by scientology since the 90's.

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0:00.0

Welcome everyone to another episode of Scientology Fair Game.

0:07.0

Mike, hello.

0:10.0

Lee, hello.

0:12.0

We have yet another distinguished guest and someone we consider part of the family of fighting

0:22.0

and exposing Scientology and their criminal activity Tony Ortega, welcome.

0:28.0

Thank you for having me on Leah.

0:31.0

Mike.

0:32.0

Hi, Tony.

0:33.0

How are you?

0:34.0

It is absolutely our pleasure.

0:36.0

Now, let's for those who don't know Tony, let's go through a little bit of your history.

0:42.0

Tony, you were not ever a Scientologist.

0:45.0

Never once.

0:46.0

And what got you involved in exposing Scientology?

0:51.0

You know, I was a new reporter for a newspaper in Arizona of all places and I was just looking for a good story.

0:58.0

And I was fortunate.

0:59.0

I worked for a weekly and part of our job was to look for stories that the daily had either missed or done badly.

1:06.0

Okay.

1:07.0

And I happened to be looking through the letters to the editor one day of the Arizona Republic.

1:12.0

And I spotted a letter from a guy named Rick Ross who was complaining to the paper that they had covered his lawsuit

1:20.0

and that he had lost a five million dollar lawsuit.

1:24.0

But they had completely left out of the story that the plaintiff against him have been recruited by the Church of Scientology.

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