Article: My Battle with Tulsi Gabbard's Cult Followers in Hawaii

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Christine Gralow
Dec 4, 2024
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https://www.spytalk.co/p/my-battle-with-tulsi-gabbards-cult

TWICE IN MY LIFE I've experienced political realities so implausibly sinister, I mistook them for bad dreams. Both incidents involved my former congresswoman, Tulsi Gabbard.

The first was in January 2017. I'd been digging into wild whispers from some neighbors that Gabbard was in a money laundering cult in our community. I was a former journalist turned teacher with zero interest in political reporting at the time. I had just moved from Kauai Island to Kailua, in Windward Oahu. When one Kailua neighbor learned of my financial reporting background, he encouraged me to figure out “what’s up with the money laundering.”

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This is an AMAZING story. An international cult, and money laundering across Philippines, Hawaii, Indonesia...

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1. Fascinating

I've only read Part I so far...

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2. Do we know what the goal is of these schemes?

Is this simply about self-enrichment, or are the people at the top of this "Science of Identity" cult true believers, cycling all this money back into expansion and getting new followers?

Also, jus as a matter of curiosity, does Tulsi Gabbard and her family live an exorbitant lifestyle?

I looked at the products page for QNET and it looks like typical--albeit overpriced--pseudo health products, plus expensive jewelry.

I've never fully understood how money laundering works. Is what they are doing significantly different from other multi-level marketing programs? Just trying to figure out what the "sinister" aspect of all this is, or what makes it illegal and distinct from what my local naturopath/chiropractor is doing? Does it have something to do with exfiltrating so much money from these countries in which they are operating? (It's amazing they are able to generate this kind of income from this religion/health products).

EDIT: Oh, tax fraud? Is the tax exempt status of this operation what redefines what they do as illegal money laundering?