A Letter to David Miscavige
You dismantled every firewall, erased every safeguard, and now you stand alone fully exposed to the criminal justice system you once believed would protect you.
Note to Readers:
While this letter is addressed to David Miscavige (and rest assured, he will read it), it is also written for all of us—for those seeking truth, justice, and accountability.
This isn’t just a warning to him. It’s a declaration of where we stand and what this initiative is about.
We will not be baited into the legal traps of the past. We are not here to fight over religious recognition or beliefs. That’s the terrain Miscavige prefers—murky, expensive, and full of distractions.
What he fears most is the one thing he cannot control: direct attention on himself.
So that’s exactly what we’re giving him.
July 17th, 2025
To:
David Miscavige
Chairman of the Board Religious Technology Center (RTC)
Ecclesiastical Leader of the Church of Scientology
CC:
Monique Yingling, Legal Counsel to Scientology
Eric Lieberman, RTC Attorney
Office of Special Affairs, Church of Scientology International
RTC Legal Affairs
U.S. Department of Justice, Criminal Division
IRS Exempt Organizations Division
California Attorney General’s Office, Charitable Trusts Section
Investigative Journalists, Legal Correspondents, and National Media Outlets
Concerned Citizens, Survivors, and Former Scientology Executives
David,
You have spent decades silencing critics, burying lawsuits, destroying internal oversight, and hiding behind religious protections that were never meant to shield criminal enterprise or to shield you.
Your most powerful weapon has always been money. Money unlawfully obtained through coercion, fraud, and the systematic abuse of nonprofit and religious protections. You’ve been certain you could outlast, outmaneuver, and financially break any witness, plaintiff, or whistleblower who sought to expose the truth.
Times have changed. The legal system is catching up. One by one, those who used coercion and control under the guise of religious or charitable purpose are falling.
We are not addressing Scientology as a faith. We are not questioning the IRS’s recognition or any individual’s right to belief.
We are addressing you; in your personal and legal capacity.
The crimes outlined below are not alleged.
The violations are not hypothetical. They are documented in court records, sworn declarations, public filings, and your own institutional communications.
And the system behind them, the one you dismantled, hijacked, and rebuilt in your image for personal enrichment and control, provides no legal insulation. It exposes you fully to personal liability for the criminal enterprise you created to silence dissent, extract wealth, and eliminate oversight.
You Eliminated Oversight. You Now Own the Crimes.
You systematically dismantled every form of internal governance, board supervision, and organizational independence once present in the corporate structure that surrounded you.
You did not inherit power.
You seized it, deliberately, methodically, and in violation of federal nonprofit law.
You removed every executive who held independent fiduciary responsibility:
You forced undated resignations from board members.
You dissolved or neutered boards of directors across multiple legal entities.
You eliminated the Executive Director International and seized control of international management.
You purged RTC, CST, CSI, ASI, IAS and every remaining corporate firewall that could have limited your authority.
In doing so, you personally and knowingly violated the terms of the 1993 IRS Closing Agreement, an agreement that granted religious recognition based on formal corporate independence, which you have since erased.
You present yourself as Chairman of the Board and Ecclesiastical Leader, simultaneously denying, in sworn legal filings, that you hold any actual control.
And yet, to the public, to your staff, and across every platform your organization operates, you repeatedly assert, publicly, proudly, and without qualification, that you alone are in command, and personally responsible for its “growth.”
You are the face of CSI.
You are the force behind RTC.
You control ASI.
And you command the IAS; the organization’s most secretive financial arm, accountable to no one but you.
That contradiction has collapsed. The court filings, internal testimony, and corporate records alongside your own propaganda, issued compulsively out of fear of exposure make one thing indisputable:
You give the orders. You control the enterprise. And under the doctrines of command responsibility, corporate fraud, and perjury-by-proxy, you are personally and legally culpable for every violation committed under your authority.
You Control a Continuing Criminal Enterprise
The system you built for yourself, hidden behind the walls of a recognized religion called Scientology, is not Scientology, and it is not religious.
It is criminal.
Under U.S. law, a continuing criminal enterprise is defined by its pattern, structure, and your role at the top of it.
You do not merely lead this system you designed it.
You rewrote policies, twisted doctrine, and restructured internal operations for one purpose: to expand your control and insulate yourself from accountability.
And in doing so, you created a closed-loop of coercion, fraud, and retaliation that bears your fingerprint at every level.
And it looks nothing like what Scientology ever was not even when examining its criminal history before you took full control.
The resulting violations include:
Forced Labor & Human Trafficking
(18 U.S.C. § 1589 et seq.)
You did not inherit this system, you re-engineered it.
You rewrote internal labor policy and doctrinal expectations to eliminate worker protections, remove lawful compensation, and normalize coercion under the false guise of religious duty.
You structured Sea Org life to ensure members were isolated, overworked, and chronically underpaid, or not paid at all, while being held psychologically captive under the constant threat of expulsion, disconnection, or eternal spiritual condemnation.
You constructed an internal prison system, both physical and psychological, designed to dismantle the last vestiges of executive authority, eliminate independent oversight, and break the will of any corporate officer who might challenge your control.
Many of those individuals ultimately fled.
You have spent the years since retaliating against them in an effort to silence the record and shield yourself from legal exposure.
This was not incidental. It was a system personally engineered by you, codified in policy, enforced by fear, and operated for your protection and benefit.
Conspiracy to Commit Assault and Battery
You did not merely authorize violence, you committed it, repeatedly and personally.
You struck subordinates with your own hands. You physically assaulted executives, managers, and staff in locked offices, hallways, and conference rooms. You did so in front of witnesses who have now testified under oath, in media, and in sworn declarations.
You then institutionalized that violence rewriting internal discipline policies, dismantling formal HR protections, and weaponizing physical abuse as a tool of obedience.
You promoted those who emulated it. You punished those who objected to it. You made violence a managerial instrument, coercive, strategic, and always controlled by you.
This was not a culture of misconduct. It was a conspiracy to commit felony assault, designed by you, ordered by you, and carried out to protect your authority and eliminate internal resistance.
Obstruction of Justice & Witness Tampering
(18 U.S.C. §§ 1512, 1503)
You rewrote the operational playbook for dealing with dissent, transforming internal discipline into an intelligence and retaliation network designed to suppress legal exposure and silence witnesses.
You personally directed surveillance, harassment, and legal intimidation campaigns against former executives, plaintiffs, journalists, and internal whistleblowers.
You employed private investigators, weaponized NDAs, and deployed lawyers not to protect doctrine, but to protect yourself.
You used “ethics” policies, security check protocols, and ecclesiastical cover as legal smokescreens deliberately crafted to obstruct court cases, suppress sworn testimony, and conceal evidence that directly implicated you in criminal conduct.
This includes your personal role in the destruction and concealment of critical evidence, such as the suicide note written by Stacy Moxon and internal case files related to the wrongful death of Lisa McPherson, both of which posed direct legal threats to you and revealed your command involvement.
You did not manage this from a distance.
You constructed a retaliatory machine, built to criminalize exposure, institutionalize revenge, and insulate yourself from prosecution.
This was not crisis management. It was a multi-decade criminal strategy of obstruction, ordered and enforced by you, to protect your personal position not any faith, doctrine, or belief.
And when anyone got too close or called you out directly, as we are doing here you silenced them.
You paid for their silence, and you covered your crimes with nondisclosure agreements crafted to conceal your personal liability.
But NDAs do not shield criminal enterprise.
They are legally unenforceable when used to conceal continuing crimes, obstruct justice, or suppress testimony.
And those you paid to remain silent through settlements, fear, or deception will soon understand that once subpoenaed, they are legally obligated to testify, and that withholding evidence of ongoing crimes carries its own liability.
False Imprisonment & Coercive Control
You did not inherit a flawed system of discipline.
You created and operated a covert structure of unlawful imprisonment, disguised as religious rehabilitation, with the explicit purpose of eliminating oversight and breaking internal resistance.
You personally ordered the confinement of executives and staff in locked rooms, sealed trailers, and restricted compounds, cut off from communication, deprived of legal recourse, and subjected to forced confessions, sleep deprivation, and prolonged psychological abuse.
This was not limited to one location.
But nowhere was it more visible than the high-security compound you established at Gold Base replete with razor wire fences, guard booths, surveillance cameras, and, by your own admission, “built for the purpose of locking up any dissidence.”
You didn’t stop at physical confinement.
You repeatedly revised staff and Sea Org contracts, especially in response to public exposure, to shield yourself personally from liability.
These agreements were not entered into freely.
They were presented under threat of expulsion, disconnection, or spiritual ruin, imposed as a religious duty, and signed without legal representation, negotiation, or access to rights guaranteed by civil law.
Many of these contracts stripped individuals of basic legal protections, including their First Amendment rights and access to civil courts, forcing them instead into internal “arbitration” bodies controlled entirely by you.
These were not isolated incidents or staff misconduct.
They were part of a deliberate system of coercive control, authored, ordered, and maintained by you.
This was not religious discipline. It was false imprisonment, strategically designed to neutralize those who could expose your crimes or threaten your control.
Corporate Fraud & Nonprofit Abuse
You did not just manipulate corporate structure.
You hollowed it out, reconstructing every major legal entity under your control to operate as a financial shell, with no independent oversight, no functional boards, and no legitimate public benefit.
You dissolved governing bodies, silenced fiduciary officers, and rewrote organizational bylaws to eliminate accountability for how funds were raised, transferred, and spent.
You then funneled charitable donations, solicited under the banner of religious advancement—into operations designed solely to expand your personal power: surveillance, smear campaigns, legal retaliation, scripted media attacks, luxury travel, and the construction of propaganda-based real estate.
This was not mismanagement.
It was premeditated fraud, engineered to subvert IRS regulations, violate the 1993 Closing Agreement, and convert tax-exempt protections into a weapon of personal enrichment and legal insulation.
You did not violate nonprofit law accidentally. You designed this system to do exactly what it has done and you alone control where the money goes, how it’s spent, and who is punished with it.
Racketeering (RICO)
(18 U.S.C. §§ 1961–1968)
Everything outlined above is part of a single, unified criminal structure, conceived, constructed, and operated by you.
This structure spans decades, crosses international borders, and relies on fraudulent nonprofit entities, coerced labor, surveillance networks, contractual silence, and ongoing obstruction of justice. It is not a religion. It is a continuing criminal enterprise, built to extract labor, suppress truth, and eliminate oversight.
You did not inherit this system.
You built it, policy by policy, contract by contract, attack by attack, with the sole objective of consolidating personal power while shielding yourself from civil and criminal liability.
You direct every part of it.
You benefit from all of it.
You alone are responsible for it.
This is racketeering, not faith.
And you are its architect, its beneficiary, and its enforcer.
These are not past misdeeds.
They are active federal crimes, continuing, coordinated, and prosecutable.
And no corporate title, tax exemption, or First Amendment claim will shield you from them.
The Evidence Is Already Yours
We are not collecting evidence.
We are collating it.
And almost all of it came from you.
You provided it, through legal filings, internal directives, press statements, paid settlements, and public propaganda. You handed over a blueprint of criminal control, one court case, one smear site, one NDA at a time.
In Aznaran v. Scientology, the Ninth Circuit recognized insider testimony of sham corporate governance, falsified to evade accountability.
In Headley v. Scientology, you escaped on jurisdiction but never denied, under oath, the existence of forced labor, confinement, or coercion.
In Debbie Cook’s declaration, you were accused of financial fraud, psychological abuse, and systematic governance manipulation. Your response? Not a denial. A payment.
You repeated that pattern in every case since.
Never rebutting the facts only hiding behind religious status, tax exemptions, and legal technicalities.
Not once have you submitted to open discovery and let the truth speak for itself.
And yet, in your own official websites, your videos, your legal briefs, you speak freely, naming whistleblowers, issuing personal smears, and boasting of control over every corner of the organization.
Every attack you’ve launched has become evidence.
Every denial you’ve made has become an admission.
And every name you’ve tried to silence has become a witness.
You can’t distance yourself from this anymore.
Not after Danny Masterson, where the public saw the full scope of protection and intimidation.
Not after Leah Remini, who named you personally in a civil suit and laid out how you direct harassment through internal policy and command authority.
Not after the survivors, some under NDA, some still in fear, have begun to understand the law is no longer on your side.
You built this record. We’re simply submitting it.
The Human Cost of Your Control
This is not just a legal indictment.
It is a reckoning, for the lives damaged, the families broken, and the humanity stripped away under your command.
You didn’t simply run an organization.
You enforced a system of control so extreme, so punitive, and so insulated from accountability that it produced systemic, generational harm.
Under your direction:
Thousands of families were destroyed through forced disconnection, parents, children, spouses, and siblings severed indefinitely under threat of expulsion or spiritual condemnation.
Women were coerced into terminating pregnancies, warned they would be removed from the Sea Org or declared suppressive if they chose to carry a child.
Individuals were confined, sometimes for months or years, in trailers and locked offices subjected to interrogations, forced confessions, and psychological degradation.
Defectors were surveilled, followed across state lines, harassed in their homes, and stalked online for speaking the truth.
Careers were dismantled, reputations destroyed, and life savings extracted through endless cycles of financial demand, marketed as spiritual necessity and administered through a quota-driven system you created.
You did not just permit these outcomes.
You orchestrated the structure that required them.
This is criminal abuse of power, calculated, directed, and sustained by you.
Time Is Not On Your Side
You once relied on time, on fear, fatigue, and the silence of those you harmed.
But time is no longer your ally. It is your greatest legal vulnerability.
These are not isolated crimes buried in the past.
They are part of a coordinated, ongoing pattern of criminal conduct and under federal law, patterned crimes do not expire.
Every act of retaliation, every instance of witness intimidation, every fraudulent filing or contractual coercion resets the statute of limitations and extends your personal liability.
What you began decades ago has not yet stopped.
It has simply been documented.
And time is no longer on your side.
There Is No One Left Between You and the Law
Every firewall you constructed has failed.
Every board you once claimed existed has collapsed.
Every executive you pointed to as independent has been expelled, disappeared, or silenced.
You now stand alone by your own design.
And that means every action, every directive, and every crime committed under this system is now legally, operationally, and personally yours to answer for.
You created a criminal enterprise.
You hid behind religion and faith to disguise it.
You used silence, fear, and manipulation to maintain it.
But the law does not recognize fear as a defense.
And it will not recognize you as untouchable.
You see, Mr. Miscavige, we are not intimidated by Scientology’s legal teams, their war chest, or the religious recognition the Church was afforded.
This is not about Scientology.
Their recognition was never meant to protect you.
And the money, donated in good faith by followers seeking spiritual advancement, was never meant to fund your personal vendettas, legal defenses, private investigators, propaganda campaigns, or acts of retaliation.
You are not the Church of Scientology.
And the Church of Scientology is not our concern.
You are.
And the criminal enterprise you created behind its walls, to its detriment, is what we’re exposing.
You, Mr. Miscavige. You, as a man.
The trail of evidence you’ve left behind and everything you continue to do from this moment forward is being watched, documented, and preserved.
And no, we won’t be baited into the legal terrain you prefer.
You’d love a complicated lawsuit against a religion.
You’d love a fight over belief systems, doctrine, or ecclesiastical immunity.
Sorry. We’re not playing your game.
We don’t need to sue the Church to expose you.
We don’t need depositions to begin the reckoning.
We already have the evidence, most of it in your own hand, and we are putting it where it belongs:
In the hands of federal agencies, state regulators, tax authorities, and prosecutors with the power to shut you down.
The laws already exist. And you are in violation of them, self admitted and proven.
You are not the victim.
You are not untouchable.
You are a man.
And you, personally, are the defendant.
And now, you are on trial;
Not in a courtroom of your choosing,
But in the public eye, and before the very laws and institutions you believed would shield you.
And we, those you try to silence, those who escaped from your reign, those who have watched from the sidelines, Scientologists and non-Scientologists alike.
The people of Clearwater, Florida, who endure your last-ditch efforts to consolidate your fortress.
The friends and families whose lives you've upended.
And countless others, watching now from around the world focused on you and you alone.
We outnumber your following.
And your so-called following will soon see the truth as well that:
For you, it was never about faith.
Never about Scientology.
Never about Hubbard.
For you, it was always about you
And the criminal enterprise you built for you.
Signed,
Tom De Vocht
On behalf of the Indict David Miscavige Initiative
If you have firsthand knowledge of the crimes described above, or documents/testimony relevant to this case, contact us securely:
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I’m so proud of you!! And DM when you read this, I saw you physically assault an SO member and I’ll never forget it. There’s too much proof of your physical abuse and abuse of power. I saw how you changed the tech and made everyone re-do courses and auditing from your “fake tech”. I’m over it like thousands more!
My jaw hurts from hitting the floor. The way in which your thoroughness is written is amazing. I wish you well and will continue to do all I can.