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The following facts are undisputed. On February 7, 2002, Gayle Traill was injured in a
car accident in Exuma, Bahamas. Compl. ¶ 5. At the time of the accident, Mrs. Traill was a
passenger in a rental car operated by her husband, Pastor Stewart Traill. Id. The Traills were in
the Bahamas due to airplane trouble they experienced on their way to Haiti to work at an
orphanage owned by COBU. See Defendant COBU’s Brief Statement of Material Facts (“Def.’s
Statement”) ¶¶ 3, 4. Following the accident, Mrs. Traill filed a worker’s compensation claim
with American Home seeking coverage for her injuries. See id. ¶ 7; see also Plaintiff American
Home Assurance Company’s Statement of Material Facts (“Pl.’s Statement”) ¶ 4. American
Home denied Mrs. Traill’s worker’s compensation claim on March 1, 2002. See Def.’s
Statement ¶ 8; Pl.’s Statement ¶ 5. Following the denial of her claim, Mrs. Traill filed a claim
petition with the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry’s Bureau of

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/XCobu4Jesus/ This is an open to join in one click group, I started several years ago that you can join without having to provide personal info if that is a concern.There are also a few moderators with differing experiences from Cobu between the 70’s – 90’s to offer help and guidance for any needs.You can also request any type of help there and I will try to help you any way possible.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/X-Cobu/ This is a group of former members and it is private, so you need to request membership and identify yourself to the moderator only.Some members are active in ministries, some have no church affiliations and others are just there for friends.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ex-cobu/ This is an unmoderated group that has former member emails along with alot of spam since it is unmoderated but you may find some beneficial information in the archives.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Cobu_Survivors This is a closed private group which is moderated as well and there are some good former members there as well that may help.

http://www.angelfire.com/nm/cobu/ This site has many pictures and testimonies from former members and info on reunions and gatherings.

GBU~!
Ave

When someone joined they were uprooted and moved to a place where they received little world comforts and contact other than working for Christian Brothers Carpet Cleaning and when the IRS tried to interfere, members were told to sign their paychecks and ‘donate’ them back to Cobu so they could keep the money. The members were given food, shelter and later on clothing as needed and were taught not to trust the world for anything,nor to trust anyone outside of Cobu. They were also taught to constantly confess every idle thought that came into their heads so they were left unbalanced and not trusting in their own thoughts but instead relying on those Stewart placed over them.

As for those who were closest to Stewart, whom he used to execute his plans, he would ‘detrone’ them every so often to keep them ‘beat down’ emotionally and spiritually as well, so that no one could rise above him.

Anyone leaving Cobu often left only with the clothes on their backs and no money or direction to obtain any help or counselling. Many would return and re-submit to Cobu authority but have to ‘prove’ themselves with more self denial and more loyalty. Today there is an estimated 40 members still living ‘IN” and they are older and totally committed to Stewart and the lie they live.

Some who left after 10-20 years of servitude, have not been able to adjust to the world outside of Cobu and because of all the head games and preprogrammed thoughts, find it nearly impossible to join in any church fellowship for any length of time. Some who may not have been too brainwashed have gone onto college and other ministries, but that is only a few compared to the majority.
There have been an estimated 40,000 members over the years, some who stayed only briefly and others who spent years there.

Since all had to work and donate their salaries, no social security was ever paid on their accounts and no tax records exist for their benefit. At times some wanted to join together to start a class action suit against Cobu but nothing has ever been established as the paper ‘traill’ is well covered.

Stewart keeps nothing in his name, which protects him from Rico laws and IRS tax evasion. He owns his condo in Florida but all the business ventures and church are kept seperate and well dispursed. There are Christian Brothers Carpet Cleaning services in NYC Florida, Texas and Los Angeles, that are known but now run independently on paper [although you know he gets his share!] and they even have hired people that have no ties to Cobu which helps cover it up.

When taking donations for their ‘orphanage’ in Haiti, they accept anything which gets stored in the Scranton warehouse only to resurface in another company he had started called ” Olde Good Things’ which sells on ebay and at store locations across t he nation, being a well known reclamation service for antiquities and a multi million dollar operation, since most items were donated to the ‘church’ of Cobu and the members donate their salaries, so the profits are very high.. Where does that money go? who knows?

Stewart was a smart con man in the world and has managed to get very good financial advice on how to run his scam of operations! He is similar to Al Capone but avoided the mistakes that got Capone busted, namely how the IRS can track him, since he keeps most things out of his name.

He now has 4 airplanes, designated for the Haiti orphanage and the current members are so brainwashed t hat they easily manipulate any outsider Christians and obtain help from unwitting others.

They have real estate holding corps and stores all over, some based in either N or S Carolina [ I forget which one but did manage to contact them once]

The biggest thing that is imparted to current members is secrecy, loyalty and the delusion that they are elite and special only as long as they remain loyal to Stewart and the current Cobu administration, which are puppets of Stewart.

A few have escaped but needed extensive deprogramming and some services are obtainable through WellsSpring in Ohio ~ which helps deprogram and reintegrate members back into Christian communities, although it is expensive, so most who have managed to leave go into hiding.

There has been reports of suicides, accidents and other deaths. Most if not all who have left have been branded as backsliders and those who remain in fellowship have been seriously trained not to trust any former members or outsiders.

A few years back when Gayle had her accident, they changed some things ‘corporately’ so that the aging members now have health insurance through their Scranton address.

Last year the warehouse in Scranton had a ‘fire’ which eliminated many assets which were also reported to be heavily insured…

The orphanage is a front that allows them to obtain government grants and donations. Most monies go for ‘administration’ but some orphans are at least ‘fed’.Abuses have been discussed over the years. Some sisters who were brought down there on rotation from the NYC area were often ‘packed’ with up to $15,000 cash each under their clothing to smuggle in money that went “where”?….

Sexual abuse reports from the ‘half wives’ has been documented by a few who had the guts to tell all…One brave sister named Anne has her ‘testimony’ as to what Stewart did to her and others, posted on the Angelfire site to which you can find it in our ‘links section’ on the xcobu4Jesus yahoo group. or at http://www.angelfire.com/nm/cobu/

Stewart demasculated the brothers verbally and that kept them in check to not give into their flesh to seek marriage and many brothers today have either never been married or failed in their marriages as a result .The minutes of the brothers meeting with Stewart is available on the Angelfire site as well. http://www.angelfire.com/nm/cobu/

Undercover reporters have also tried to infiltrate the Cobu. One female reporter almost succumbed to the brainwashing while obtaining materials for her newspaper article.

Surfacely the ‘brethren’ that are still “IN” talk only biblically and in a religious ‘double speak’ so that they go undetected by the casual observer and can interact minimally for business purposes, as though they received ’spiritual lobotomies’…It is very hard to rescue any of those who are left, but hope is still maintained so that by befriending any of them, that one day they may see the light and be freed from their enslavement to Cobu.

GBU~!
Ave

Jill