According to the proceedings, Google is infiltrating a "destructive" California cult led by a "pedophile" leader.
Former Google Video Producer and Whistleblower Kevin Lloyd claims he was fired after the boss of Google Developer Studio, who worked in Mountain View, California, began complaining that he was building up departments. And I'm suing the technology giant. With members of Fellowship of Friends.
Registered as a religious group with the IRS in 1971, and based on the vast grounds of Northern California, past members of this group have sexually abused long-time leader Robert Earl Burton. I blamed it. According to Spotify's six-part podcast seriesRevelationsreleased last year, cheating. In 1984 and 1996, two proceedings filed by former members in connection with these accusations were settled outside the court.
In the early 1970s, Burton preached that members needed to immerse themselves in advanced art such as opera and literature in order to get rid of negative thoughts. He relied on the "44 Angels" ( ), including the spirits of historical figures such as William Shakespeare, Benjamin Franklin, and the Italian poet Dante Alighieri.
"[Former member], [leader] is these sexual rituals He tries to have sex with 100 followers a day. He called them a celebration of love, "Podcast investigative journalist Jennings Brown told Post last year.
According to Lloyd's proceedings filed in the California High Court in August, "Former Fellowship of Friends members help deal with trauma that they endured during their membership and problems that arise after withdrawal. There is an online support group to do. "
According to the proceedings, 34-year-old Lloyd started working at Google Developer Studio in August 2017 and was hired through Advanced Systems Group, a technology support services company suing in the same application.
Lloyd is a filing to his court, shortly after being hired. In he, Google's boss exclusively promoted members of the group's 1,200-acre headquarters (called Apollo) and its surrounding cults in Oregon House, California, north of Sacramento. The proceedings allege that at least 12 of the 25 employees in Lloyd's department were members of the cult. According to the proceedings, Peter Rubels, one of Lloyd's supervisors, is a member of the Fellowship of Friends. Often, Lubbers, director of Google Development Studio, hired his son to work as a DJ at Google's corporate events. Lloyd's court allegation claims that another of Lubbers' sons was hired as a freelance video producer and his wife was also included in Google's salary.
"Mr. According to the proceedings, Lubbers directly or indirectly allocated (and maintained) other fellowship members to Google's salaries through his efforts at Google to flow money into fellowships. Obtained status and praise in connection with the increase.
Fellowship members typically need to donate 10% Monthly revenue for an organization boasting up to 1,500 members per podcast.
Google is a cult-related company run by Fellowship members in Oregon House. The lawsuit alleges that he bought wine from Grant Marie Winery, a vineyard in Japan.
Lloyd's lawsuit also claims that Google Development Studio employees who do not belong to the cult were despised.
"People outside the fellowship are somehow inferior and sometimes considered hostile," the proceedings said. "People who express serious concerns, criticisms, or questions to the group may eventually be perceived as enemies."
According to a Google Development Studio supervisor lawsuit using a homosexual slur, the employee was dismissed, but the employee was dismissed. He was not openly rebuked for being "useless."
"In plaintiffs' preliminary investigation into the Oregon House and Fellowship 0f Friends, fellowship is a destructive cult, and the pedophile leader
makes false predictions about the end of the world. I explained, "the proceedings allege. "Plaintiffs warned that Google is involved in and / or financially backing such organizations."
While working at Google, my heart Lloyd, who developed pain and other stress-related illnesses, worried that the local event he created could "somehow be used to return money to a friend's fellowship," according to the court. paper.
complained about the close relationship between a colleague and his boss According to a later proceeding, Lloyd was dismissed by the ASG in February 2021 against the cult.
"The GDS department only needed to tell the ASG that a particular" vendor "was no longer needed to get rid of the nasty" vendors "such as plaintiffs," the proceedings alleged. increase. "In the case of the plaintiff, when GDS's senior management dismissed him and decided according to their instructions, the ASG immediately terminated the plaintiff's employment without providing a legitimate business reason. For some reason. "
Founded in 1970 by Barton, known to members as" our beloved teacher, "Fellowship of Friends filed a $ 2.75 million lawsuit in a young man with former members. It first fired in 1984. The group was "forced and illegally seduced by Burton." In 1996, another former member accused Burton of sexual misconduct when he was a minor. According to the New York Times, both proceedings have been settled out of court.
In the past, groups have also been investigated. According to the Apocalypse podcast, the Immigration Bureau allegedly took foreign recruits to the United States on religious visas and forced them into sexual slavery. There was no charge.
Burton founded the group on the principle that "anyone interested in pursuing the spiritual work of awakening can use it." He considers the woman "inferior" and states that she frowns at her birth. Former San Francisco Bay Area school teachers studied the teachings of a self-help movement called the Fourth Way, founded by the Greek and Armenian philosopher George Gurdjieff.
"How to explain a conscious teacher. He does what no one else can or can't do — teaches the least popular of all the truths: our illusions. The sensation of "I" must die ", which shows that Burton lives in Apollo with 500 followers. Other followers are scattered in more than 80 cities around the world, but meet regularly for the "spiritual gatherings" that are the details of the website.
Burton encouraged his followers to buy art and place it in his "Galleria" on the group's grounds. In 1996, Fellowship's collection of antique Chinese furniture was sold at the Christie's auction for $ 11.2 million .
No comment requests were returned from Google and Lloyd. The Fellowship of Friends did not respond to The Post's request for comment.