Leah Remini and her Troublemakers, Part 17 – Remini Missing Person Scam

Leah Remini and her Troublemakers, Part 17 – Remini Missing Person Scam

One of the critical parts of the Rinder, Ortega, Remini roll out was the “missing Shelly Miscavige”, the wife of David Miscavige.

You know at the time – in 2013 I think it was – Rinder told me about that. That she was going to do a whole thing about “where is Shelly” and put the church in just an unbelievably terrible position because he figured it all out; because he was in public relations his entire life.

He figured it all out. There was going to be this untenable position where nobody could respond to it because it is so personal and it is so… The accusation is one of those things like a “do you beat your wife” conundrum. Right?

The way they are framing the accusation that they could just go to town and make it into a series that just keeps playing out. Right?

And I said to Mike, why would Leah do something like this, you know, if she has any concern about her own credibility and integrity?

You know she’s not missing.

You know that Leah Remini truly does not have the rank to ask to know exactly where she is; when; or how she does her business. That is just as much as she feels like… that she needs the ability to be wherever she wants and associate with whoever she wants. Shelly has the exact same right. The last person in the world she would want to see is Leah Remini or Mike Rinder.

Mike goes, “Yeah, I know all that but it’s like this perfect thing. Because it puts them in a position where this is the wife of the head of Scientology. It puts them in this untenable position.” He knew. He knew it was a scam from the beginning. He knew it was a cheap shot from the beginning.

I was certain that Rinder conned her on the Shelly story being a story of manufacture. When I called her out on it she said, “Oh yeah, I already knew that. I was running a false black PR campaign the entire time”.

I said, “Mike Rinder knows this is a scam and a sham. And I could have, if you had asked me about it; if you asked my opinion you would not have gotten into this in the first place”.

She goes, “I know that, I knew she wasn’t missing”.

In other words, she told me she is in complete and utter league and agreement with Mike Rinder.

At that time I was just giving her the benefit of the doubt, maybe she was just being taken advantage of because Mike. You know, that is what he is famous for. He is the most agreeable guy on the planet and people find that reassuring to have him around them. So, he is making good, regular bucks by playing that role for her. But no, she knew that. That was cool with her. In other words, she knew it was a scam from the beginning.

The amazing thing is, here we are, that was 2014-15-16 and we are three years later. They are still running it. Every several months or so they roll the thing out again, they come out with an event, a PR event. She’ll file an FOI request with the police. And Ortega will run this big thing and try to get it out to the tabloids.

She’s complaining because the police aren’t investigating the Shelly thing, right. They get their documents, their responses, no further story, right? Because there’s nothing there.

But, you know, they don’t inform the troll farm so all these people living in this alternate reality – that they believe this world view that they are being fed by Remini, Rinder and Ortega who are laughing all the way to the bank.