Irish Examiner Thursday, January 05, 2012 – 01:13 PM
The High Court has today ordered Irish lifestyle guru Tony Quinn to give a sworn statement as part of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Denver, Colorado.
The proceedings arise from the sale of shares in International Natural Energy (INE), the oil exploration company connected to Mr Quinn which is operating in Belize.
INE hit the headlines last year when a Caribbean court found Tony Quinn was in breach of his duties as a director of the Central American oil company.
The ruling came as certain shareholders expressed frustration that despite massive revenues following the discovery of huge oil reserves in Belize, they had not received a dividend.
Now a US court in Denver, Colorado has requested the High Court to order Quinn to give a sworn statement in a multimillion dollar lawsuit by a former INE director.
Jean Cornec claims he has not been paid in full for a $15m (€23.3m) sale of shares but the purchaser, Susan Morrice, alleges that is because he broke the contract by engaging in a campaign of disparagement against Tony Quinn.
The Irish businessman spends much of his time in Barbados, but Judge Patrick McCarthy made the order having heard he is in Dublin ahead of what is advertised as a ‘truly life-changing seminar’ in the RDS this Sunday. *
*It is noteworthy that there is no reference to this Seminar on The Tony Quinn site which suggests Quinn must have anticipated that he might face problems and therefore kept it under the radar. There is an advert for a seminar in the Bahamas starting on Jan 31.
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Dialogue Ireland 
Quinn is in town for the Christmas and New Year to rally and exploit the diminishing flock. For the last weeks, followers, flunkies and unfortunate victims still caught up in his phony “spiritual” world and his glittering empty promises, have been tasked to drag anybody they can get to make up the appearance of a big crowd devoted to the narcissistic Quinn. The stage-managed and tightly controlled rally at the RDS is the usual propaganda exercise to keep the flock under the influence with Quinn blathering on with the usual sub-spiritual guff about “Song 0f Life” Version 511 promoted as world-shattering, life-changing, etc. Quinn’s difficulties can’t be hidden by this charade as his problems continue to roll on since he was mortally wounded by the media exposes of the last few years. Despite his promises to the faithful that these problems would be long gone by now, the reality is that 2011 has been an extremely bad year for Quinn with the critical media reports continuing, many of them focussing on the oil-related problems Quinn has. The oil shareholders that have been calling “foul” by Quinn and associates have been creating yet more negative exposure for Quinn and Morrice.
Quinn’s toxic cultist influence continues to plague the oil company and many of the shareholders while he invents yet more conspiracy theories to try to dismiss the legitimate criticisms. Legal problems and defeats in 2011 add to his (and his cronies) difficulties, for example, being found in court to be in breach of his fiduciary duties, unable or unwilling to turn up and face the music in court and having to pay up to Paul Marriott despite fighting to avoid this. Quinn has been trying to avoid legal processes for decades, easier to do when you can hide in a cult with lots of flunkies to take the flak, avoid summons, run and hide from country to country and use lots of ill-gotten money to use lawyers to threaten your critics. Using an oil company as legal protection hasn’t been as successful as Quinn hoped. Quinn’s attempts to portray himself as a successful businessman and reinvent himself as a “success” guru haven’t worked and he is far too tainted with his old occultism and messiah claims and the long history of mental, sexual and financial exploitation. A few minutes looking at media archives on Dialogue Ireland and other websites gives a very different picture of Quinn, the “businessman”, than the one that Quinn, Morrice, Millea and other inner circle members try to put on the public. It would certainly take a lot more than a few spin-doctors to cover up Quinn’s cultist mess. It even takes a lot more than lies, cover-ups, “testimonials” and propaganda from core members to rescue Quinn.
Quinn’s legal problems have emerged strongly into the spotlight in the New Year, with Mr. Cornec’s being just one more, and Quinn’s threats and legal attacks haven’t silenced people with the guts to face him down with the truth. Coming under any kind of scrutiny is a big problem for the cultist “guru” as yet more people see more clearly behind the facade of pseudo-spiritual preaching to the darker world of cultist lies, manipulation and exploitation. The rallying cries of Quinn and Morrice are having less and less effect as the cultism of over 40 years collapses in on itself.
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You can run Quinn but you cannot hide, may 2012 be the year you end up where you belong – behind bars, and you and Morrice deserve each other for company.
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