21 Facts About Bob Minton

Robert Schenk Minton was a millionaire who helped finance lawsuits against the Church of Scientology.

Bob Minton became a critic of Scientology after reading about its attacks on critics and internet free speech.

Bob Minton appeared on several news programs discussing his criticism of Scientology and the harassment from the Church of Scientology.

Bob Minton gave money to a number of other church critics, including three people whom Scientology accuses of infringement of its copyrights.

Bob Minton distributed $25,000 or $30,000 to a Swiss ex-Scientologist called Jean-Luc Barbier, who was suing the cult, and gave $250,000 to a French attorney.

Bob Minton participated in demonstrations in front of the Boston Headquarters of the Church of Scientology near his Beacon Hill home.

In 1999, Bob Minton founded the Lisa McPherson Trust which brought a civil suit against the Church of Scientology for the wrongful death of Lisa McPherson and provided legal assistance to former Scientologists who alleged maltreatment or abuse by the Church.

In 2000, Bob Minton was the first recipient of the "Alternative Charlemagne Award" from the European-American Citizens Committee for Human Rights and Religious Freedom.

Bob Minton produced and funded the film The Profit, costing him about $2.5million.

Miscavige even blamed them for failure to stop Bob Minton from moving to Clearwater in the first place.

In October 2009, Rinder and Rathbun told the St Petersburg Times that Scientology eventually silenced Bob Minton by digging into his financial details and secretly recording conversations.

Bob Minton changed his testimony in the McPherson case after a Scientology probe into his financial affairs.

Bob Minton was repeatedly ordered to attend depositions and questioned by Scientology lawyers about his alleged financial dealings.

Critics of Scientology believe that Bob Minton was blackmailed by the Church of Scientology.

On March 16,2002, Bob Minton called Mike Rinder and on April 6 of that year they met.

At that meeting Bob Minton told Rinder that there were lies told in the case and he feared Scientology would uncover those lies in court and he would be sent to jail for perjury.

Bob Minton's affidavit gave new details about how involved Bob Minton was in the wrongful death case from the start, stating that he gave Dandar more than $2million to finance the case and paying witnesses to testify against the church.

Dandar took the witness stand to explain the origin of Swiss bank checks totaling $750,000 that Bob Minton allegedly gave him.

Bob Minton testified about two financial arrangements in which $800,000 of his money was transferred from Europe to the Lisa McPherson Trust and that he had kept a portion of that money because he wanted to hide the source of the Trust's funding from the Church of Scientology.

Six months before she had already remarked that it was irrelevant how much money Bob Minton had put into the case.

Bob Minton died in Clonbur, Ireland of a heart ailment on January 20,2010, at the age of 63.