--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> From a friend close to the Vedic Pundits in FF.
>
> About 13 of the pundits in FF were permitted to go to India to attend MMY's
> funeral ceremonies. The TMO in FF and Vedic City provided their plane
> tickets and $500 each to use as they wished, but basically to make the trip
> more comfortable and perhaps enable them to buy some things for themselves
> or family & friends. (Three didn't receive this gift because they had their
> own money.) When they were met in Chicago just prior to boarding the plane
> they were ordered to surrender the money, apparently by someone representing
> the Varma family. The pundits were not pleased but they felt they had no
> choice.
>
Very disturbing story and, I'm sorry to say, not surprising. As I stated
several days ago, the
funnel of funds being redirected back to the family is going to widen very
rapidly.
