Hello, I'm Dr. Steven Hassan and welcome to the influence continuum.

I have a very special guest today, Jeffrey Augustine, and we go back a whole bunch of years,

and I've been begging him to research and share knowledge,

because he's not only a journalist, but he's also a PI. I'm just going to read a little intro

for you, Jeffrey. Invest investigative journalist, and your blog is, drumroll, the Scientology Money Project,

very important blog that covers Scientology's money, crimes, lies, and legal matters.

Augustine covers Scientology in real time, offers in-depth analysis,

legal, and government documents, and court cases. Augustine reports on the pervasive

culture of white-collar criminality and financial scams within Scientology, perpetrated

by its members, in addition to Scientology's cover-ups

of rapes and child molestation. Augustine's appeared on Leah Reminis' double-ME show Scientology

in the aftermath, and you've been quoted by a billion sources. And one example of your research into very,

very sophisticated things was your exposure of the $1.8 billion, that's right, billion dollar

GPB capital holdings policy scheme operated by the now criminally indicted New York Scientologist

David Gentilly.

I want to hear more about that perhaps.

But this segment is, I really wanted to do this recording with you today, Jeff, because

you wrote a very important in-depth piece on what I've

been calling cult apologists or cult defenders. In your piece, you went further and said, this is a

cult propagandist, this man named Intravenier out of Cessner.org.

And like he's kind of the head of all of these cult defender propagandists.

So I'm super psyched and welcome to the influence continuum, Jeff.

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