Career
Later, however, Miscavige said that the memo was a forgery, and assumed the leadership position himself. In 2009, Tampa Bay Times reported that after Broeker left the church in 1989 and moved to Colorado, David Miscavige hired private detectives for $32,000 a month. They followed him for the next two decades to Wyoming and ten years in Czechoslovakian Republic, where he went to medical school and worked as an English teacher.
The church said: "The lawsuit filed in Texas on behalf of two out-of-state residents is nothing more than a transparent shakedown effort.
This frivolous action stems from a decision to suspend a relationship with two independent contractors who provided various services on behalf of church counsel".
