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Van Susteren and husband invested in Scientology member's scheme
CNN legal commentator Greta Van Susteren and her husband, tobacco
litigator John Coale, were among more than 500 clients who invested money
with a Church of Scientology member who is now under federal criminal
investigation.
Unregistered investment adviser Reed Slatkin of Santa Barbara, Calif., has
told Securities and Exchange Commission investigators that he met many of
his clients through Scientology. Van Susteren and Coale, who live in
Washington but have a second home in Clearwater, are prominent members of
the church.
Slatkin's assets have been frozen and his offices searched as federal
authorities try to build a case that he was conducting a Ponzi scheme,
using money from new investors to pay off old investors.
In April, three investors sued Slatkin, claiming he had failed to return
$34-million of their funds.
"We were lucky," Coale told the Wall Street Journal last week. He and Van
Susteren got their initial investment back "and then some," Coale said.
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