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"The Thriving Cult of Greed and Power" is a TIME cover story highly critical of Scientology written by investigative journalist Richard Behar and first published on May 6, 1991. The article was also later published in the Reader's Digest, in October 1991. The article dealt with L. Ron Hubbard and the development of Scientology, its various controversies over the years and history of litigation, conflict with psychiatry and the IRS, the suicide of a Scientologist, its status as a religion, and its business dealings. The Church of Scientology mounted a public relations campaign to inform the public of what it felt were falsehoods in the piece, brought a libel suit against Time Warner and Behar, and sued Reader's Digest in multiple countries in Europe in an attempt to stop the article's publication there. The suit against Time Warner was dismissed in 1996, and the Church of Scientology's petition for a writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court of the United States in the case was denied in 2001. Richard Behar received multiple awards recognizing his work, including the Gerald Loeb Award, the Worth Bingham Prize, and the Conscience-in-Media Award.
