Guilty Plea and Post-conviction
Slatkin pled guilty to mail fraud, wire fraud, money laundering, and obstruction of justice and on September 2, 2003, he was sentenced to fourteen years in federal prison.
His Federal Bureau of Prisons registration number is 24057-112 and he was initially incarcerated at the Taft Community Correctional Institution in Taft, California. As of 2010, he is in the Lompoc Federal Correctional Institution in Lompoc, California.
Many of his victims were also Scientologists. In his fraud case, his lawyers blamed his behavior on Scientology; but Scientology's lawyers from Latham & Watkins characterized Slatkin's explanations as "shameful" and having "sold the psychiatrists a bill of goods".
In February 2008, the television show American Greed featured the Slatkin case, which it titled "Stealing $$$ from Scientologists".
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