L. Ron Hubbard: Showing Them How It's Done

"Reed Slatkin, co-founder of Earthlink Inc. and once a Scientology minister, was sentenced in 2003 to 14 years in prison for swindling investors out of about $240 million over 15 years. Groups affiliated with the Church of Scientology agreed to return millions received from his scheme."

-- The Associated Press, with a list of the largest Ponzi, or pyramid, schemes in history.