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...hard to imagine a more unpopular cause than defending the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Attorneys for the Korean evangelist carried out a survey in 1982 and found that more than 75% of those questioned reacted negatively to Moon's name. He is widely thought of as a brainwasher and exploiter of American young people. Given this prejudice, officials of the Unification Church knew that they would need a lawyer with impeccable credentials to represent the self-proclaimed "Prophet of God" in an appeal of his 1982 conviction for filing false federal income tax returns. The advocate they eventually landed...
...worked for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon, 54, South Korea's crypto-Messiah, who packed Madison Square Garden to overflowing last week. The happening, complete with numbers by the Korean Folk Ballet, kicked off an eight-city tour that climaxes his drive to build a base in the U.S. just seven years before the Messianic Age is to begin. Moon, through an interpreter, told the Garden-goers in guttural shouts, "The time of the Second Coming of Christ is near, and America is the landing site...
...Myung Moon, Korean evangelist and founder of the Unification Church, was sentenced to 18 months in prison and fined $25,000 in 1982 for failing to report personal income of $162,000. Still free while appealing, Moon claims the money belonged to the church and was thus exempt from taxes...
...this year, when its Bulletin folded, leaving the Inquirer as the city's only publishing daily. In Washington, the demise of the Star made the Post the only paper on the stands--until a peculiar competitor arose in the form of the daily Times, bankrolled by the Rev. Sun Myung Moon...
More bad news for the Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Not only has the religious cult leader lost his case to the IRS but he must now face the fact that Inchon, his first, $46 million venture as a movie financier, is unlikely to contribute so much as a dollar to defraying his legal fees...