By Jeffrey Augustine
The links below are the summary of the court reporting I did during the preliminary criminal trial of Rizza Islam and his co-defendants in the Los Angeles Downtown Criminal Courts (Case # BA435374). The felony charges against Ronnie Steven “Rizza” Islam and his co-defendants center around a $3.8 million dollar Medi-Cal insurance fraud committed during the operation of the now defunct Scientology-licensed World Literacy Crusade and the American Health and Education Clinic located in Compton, California.
Thanks to Tony Ortega for covering my reporting in real time — along with his added news and commentary — at The Underground Bunker. The Bunker commenting community added many outstanding and insightful comments. Special thanks to Lisa Bartley of ABC 7 Los Angeles Eyewitness News for providing video coverage along with the sketches by ABC sketch artist Mona S. Edwards.
This story has now become a part of the decades-long story of Scientology and criminality.
The sovereign citizen defense offered by Rizza and his mother Hanan Islam at the preliminary trial failed badly and served them both a hard lesson that legal fictions do not work in the real world. Both Rizza and his mother were sentenced to five days in jail and fined $1000 for contempt of court due to their flagrant disrespect towards the court in asserting their nonsensical sovereign citizen arguments. Their defendants will be arraigned on October 22 and I will be there to report on it.
https://scientologymoneyproject.com...019/10/Rizza-Islam-et-al-charge-documents.pdf
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