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The Fall of Synanon III
The Los Angeles District Attorney's office and Chance meetings that came to haunt Synanon
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Fall of Synanon V (Enter the IRS)
Dedicated to Dept. of Justice lawyers Thomas Lawler and Frank Hertz-- two attorneys who took over and ended Synanon, which, like Al Capone, succumbed to taxes.
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The True Story of the Rattlesnake in the Mailbox
It was the eve of the Beatles invasion. When Happy Days was life, not a TV show. My high school senior class gathered on a Santa Monica beach--celebrating graduation and friendships we had no doubt would extend long beyond our current 17 years of existence.
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New Times – The Horrors of Synanon
This 1978 article explores Synanon, an organization that tried to murder Paul Morantz to keep him from pursuing legal judgment against them. At the time Synanon had become a major non profit corporation based on the ideals of creating a new society with its own private army, the Imperial Marines.
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The True History of Synanon Violence and How it Started
In began with Punks, then escalated against the world
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The Agony and the Ecstacy
The biography of Paul Morantz mixed with the history of USC football.
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The History of Synanon and Charles Dederich
Having taken on Synanon almost single handedly in court cases from the late 1970's thru the 80's, Paul Morantz is the pre-eminent scholar on the rise and fall of Synanon and it's founder, Charles Dederich.
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