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S REPORT, May 14, 1979
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offices over to us. You ask the brethren here. They literally turned
over a whole floor of Beverly Hills law offices, and let our people,
whom they trusted, run rampant through there. Isn't that correct? How
many of you were down there? How many other law firms would have done
that for us? Practically none. Just turned over the offices. We used
the xerox machine, telephones--everything--just took it over--conference
rooms, secretarys' offices, private offices. It didn't make any
difference--all night. So all of that was working together, to pull
us together.
Well, I hope that I've cleared up the air a little bit. I hope that you
understand where we are, what our concerns are. I want you to understand
whatever
I
have had to do during these four months, I have done under
express instructions from Mr. Herbert Armstrong. Mr. McNair knows that,
Mr. LaRavia knows that, Mr. Helge knows that. There have been no mis
understandings. There has been no failure to confer with Mr. Armstrong
as to what our position should be, and what our legal moves should be,
and how we should go about it and so on. And he has had, during the
entire time, his firm hand on the tiller, I guess you call it.
They actually thought they were doing business with an 86-year-old man.
And they had some picture in their head of what an 86-year-old man ought
to be. They just didn't reckon they were getting involved with Herbert
W. Armstrong.
I think it's kind of cute, as I was telling some people. Weisman was
seen on the street by one of my old colleagues (I used to try some cases
with him--he's a well-known lawyer in town, represents a lot of sports
celebrities), and he knows me very well because we've tried cases to
gether. And so this fellow saw Weisman and he said, "Say, what happened
to you?" (He gave him a needle because no one likes Weisman, anyway.)
So Weisman says, "Well, I didn't think we'd have any problem with the
state behind us.•." He went through the whole story. He had a real
sinecure. He was going to be around just collecting money. And this
fellow said, "Well, you didn't know Stan Rader, before you got into this,
did you?" He said, "No, but I do now." He didn't know Mr. Armstrong,
either!
They were given a false impression of the people that were going to play
a role in this thing. And I think they believed the stories that Mr.
Armstrong was confined to a hospital bed, you know--just confined there-
and didn't even know where he was, all doped up, takes 24 different medi
cines every day. They found out differently, and they're finding out
differently every single day.
Those letters that Mr. Armstrong wrote just simply destroyed the state,
simply destroyed the state. Weisman, he is "soooo clever." The first
letter that Mr. Armstrong wrote about sending the special offering--he
was toying with whether to send the letter requesting a "special
offering" or "tithes," one or the other. He opted finally for
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sper.ial
offering," deliberately putting the sting in. Weisman
1 for it! He
stopped the letter--thought he stopped it. They �ever did reall�/ stop
it; they were too late Lthe message still got ou!/,
Then what did Mr. Armstrong do? Then he said, "Send it ALL to Tucson."
The battle was over--no battle any more. From that point on it was a
mopping up operation. Once the money is taken away from the receiver,