When Paul nodded the owner handed him back his card, “Your money is no good here. Examining Paul’s credit card the merchant asked if he was Paul Morantz the lawyer. Years later an example of that gratitude occurred when Paul was in a liquor store on Main Street and Bay buying alcohol for a party he was attending. However, after 14 years in court Paul eventually caused Synanon to be shut down much to the relief of police and ever-grateful residents. By the time police arrived the thugs had sneaked off. The most violent Synanon members, “The Imperial Marines,” often terrorized bike riders and people strolling the boardwalk. While the Synanon building is currently the ultra-plush Casa Del Mar Hotel back then it was decaying badly and the area was extremely seedy. Otherwise, Paul would never have survived and gone on to compile such a heroic career battling cults. Paul pounded on a neighbor’s door who, as fate would have it, had just completed a Red Cross rattlesnake course. Inexplicably calm, Paul shut the living room door so his dogs wouldn’t also get bitten.
But when he reached into the mailbox the huge snake bit his arm and wrist inflicting indescribable pain.
During the 1978 Dodger-Yankee World Series, Paul retrieved the day’s mail. He may have started with good intentions but power and money (estimated as high as $30 million) turned Dederich into a tyrant.įor example, on his order three Synanon residents placed a rattlesnake in Paul’s mailbox with its rattles cut off to avoid him hearing the imminent attack. One case involved Synanon here in Santa Monica, a so-called drug rehab founded by Charles Dederich.
Paul was a lawyer whose practice involved liberating people kept against their will in cults.
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The late Paul Morantz and I were on our high school basketball team but I hadn’t seen him again until 1978 when he was on the TV news having been nearly murdered in a shocking manner.
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