In Leah Remini’s papers: Scientology attorney accused of interfering in criminal case

[OT 8 Scientologist and attorney Kendrick Moxon]

We told you this morning that Leah Remini has fired back at Scientology, which is trying to limit the scope of her ‘Fair Game’ lawsuit.

Part of the case she’s trying to make is that Scientology does what it can to portray Leah as responsible for cases of people threatening or harming Scientologists or Scientology facilities, and it does this by exaggerating or manufacturing links to Leah to those incidents.

And in yesterday’s filing, Leah’s attorneys filed a pretty incredible example of this.

It involves a criminal case against a troubled man named Armando Garcia who was arrested on May 16, 2022 on L. Ron Hubbard Way at the “Big Blue” Scientology Los Angeles headquarters.

According to our sources, Garcia had passed out anti-Scientology fliers on a few occasions, and on that occasion was told to stop littering by a Scientology security guard. Garcia then attempted to turn his car around on L. Ron Hubbard Way, and the guard accused him of attempting to run him over. Garcia denied it, but because he had a criminal record, apparently, the DA’s office took it seriously and decided to prosecute him for assault with a deadly weapon — namely, his car.

Garcia spent nearly a year in jail awaiting trial, but then as jury selection was happening this April, a remarkable scene played out in court.

Garcia’s public defender Adella Gorgen accused Scientology attorney Kendrick Moxon of trying to convince her client to say that he was motivated by Leah Remini and her series, Scientology and the Aftermath, which had originally aired on the A&E network, and was now streaming on Netflix.

Here’s portions of the transcript from that hearing that Leah submitted to the court yesterday, which includes this incredible scene…

Judge Michael Garcia: (To Kendrick Moxon) The Court has been informed you may be a witness in the case. For the record, I will have you state your name.

Moxon: My name is Kendrick Moxon, and I’m counsel for the victims, the Church and the individual victim.

Judge Garcia: The only victim is the security officer. It’s been brought to the Court’s attention that you may now become a witness in the case, so you are excluded.

Moxon: For the record, I wasn’t a witness to anything. I don’t know why. It may not be accurate that I will be called. I can’t imagine why I would be called.

Judge Garcia: I don’t know for sure that you will be, but it’s been brought to the Court’s attention you may be called. I will have to hear legal arguments on the relevance of that, but in light of that, the Court is ordering that you are excluded.

Moxon: Thank you.

Judge Garcia: Let me, for the record, ask Ms. Gorgen [the public defender] and Ms. Ghazarian [the deputy district attorney] to state, for the record, what was brought to the court’s attention, and why the defense believes this individual that the Court has excluded may be a witness in the case.

Adella Gorgen, public defender: Thank you. The individual, Mr. Kendrick Moxon, approached me on I believe Thursday when we were sent here for trial. He approached me individually outside of the court doors, and he told me that he, in his capacity as the attorney for what he called the victims in this case, which he said was the Church of Scientology as well as the main complaining witness or the security guard, he indicated if my client, Mr. [Armando] Garcia, were to go on the record in some form or fashion to either state to the Court during a plea or put in writing, he initially asked my client apologize for being present and also to indicate that he was present on the date of the incident at the Church of Scientology grounds, and did what he did because he was “inflamed” by documentaries and a potential reality TV show that is currently airing or has aired on Netflix.

The specific individual who is producing or responsible for these documentaries is a celebrity by the name of Leah Remini, and Mr. Moxon wanted my client to state on the record that the documentary is responsible for his actions and the Church of Scientology would be able to go ahead and take these documentaries off the air.

Moreover, Mr. Moxon indicated that if my client were to make these statements on the record, he would then ask the D.A.’s office to reduce this to a misdemeanor or even less. He indicated multiple times that he did not believe that my client wanted to do what he did, but he was completely brainwashed or under the influence of these documentaries.

Defense has attempted to follow up with Mr. Moxon through other witnesses, other public defenders in my office as well as in writing, to be able to have some sort of documentation of the conversation. Defense believes this is relevant because it goes to the credibility of the statements being made by the complaining witness. It goes to a portion of our defense.

The conduct in this case, the defense believes is highly exaggerated. I don’t believe it rises to the level of an assault with a deadly weapon, with a vehicle. It’s clear that the Church of Scientology for whom the security guard is employed, has an agenda that is bigger and absolutely unrelated to Mr. Garcia, and they are using Mr. Garcia, in this case as a pawn in order to be able to get these documentaries off of the air.

These documentaries are critical of the Church’s alleged practices. And Mr. Garcia has become a pawn in this bigger scheme. And the defense believes it would become relevant if the complaining witness testifies. The church gets quite a bit of threats and they have security guards, and a number of surveillance cameras, as a result of the threats they have received.

Mr. Garcia’s non-threatening behavior which could be explained in other matters, is being exaggerated to a crime because they have a bigger agenda. That’s why the defense would like to be able to call Mr. Moxon to the stand potentially as a witness.

Again, unless the complaining witness admits or testifies differently, then defense would like to be able to call Mr. Moxon just for the very limited purpose. They attribute Mr. Garcia’s behavior to show in the documentaries, and they are willing to forego their rights or get a lesser charge in this case because they have another purpose.

Wow! We’re told at that point, Judge Garcia pulled the parties into his chambers, viewed video of the encounter, and then decided to reduce the charges to a misdemeanor.

Armando Garcia was sentenced to a year in probation.

Kendrick Moxon, of course, is a name that our readers know well. His involvement with performing unsavory tasks for Scientology go back decades, and include his being named an unindicted co-conspirator in the Snow White case of the late 1970s.

We have a feeling we’re going to hear a lot more about this case in coming days, and we can understand why Leah’s legal team feel that it’s a pretty prime example of how Scientology will do just about anything to portray her in a false light.

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