Rocky Mountain News
September 1983
Scheme loses $1.5 million for investors
by Sue Lindsay
Thirty-seven investors, including some who mortgaged their homes to
get money, have lost $1.5 million in a Denver scheme that promised a
whopping 60 percent in annual interest.
Among the big losers was L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of
Scientology, who lost almost half a million dollars.
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Hubbard staff member John Busby purt $450,000 of L. Ron Hubbard’s
money – drawn from Hubbard’s account in the Bank of Luxembourg –
into BRW after Busby saw an ad Martin placed in the Los Angeles Times.
He first invested $50,000 last June, then $100,000 in July and $300,000
in September.
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