A Statement from [name deleted by board moderator...this "author" is not content to remain anonymous, he is trying to impersonate someone; otherwise we leave this and his other posts intact] and former supporter of Nick TharcherRegarding Nick TharcherWhile I have tried to take the high road on the issue of Lee Rosenstein (“Nick Tharcher”) attacking Michael Miller personally and New Falcon Publications and the United States Ecclesiastical Seminary corporately, his latest screed and that of Michael’s step-mother, Linda Miller, calls for me to come clean and tell the truth, as I know it.
“Nick” writes, “In the year and a half since Alan's death, Linda Miller
and I have said little publicly about Michael Miller and what happened to New Falcon Publications. For the most part we have tried to keep this a private matter.” On the contrary, he has kept up a steady drumbeat of slander, lies, innuendos, theft, copyright violation, and outright fraud. He has constantly said Michael tried to defraud him of his rightful property.
The fact is that Lee has forced Linda to violate all fiduciary responsibility in the Bertha Miller Trust (BMIT). Alan Miller (Christopher S. Hyatt, Ph.D.) established the trust for his children, Michael and Michael’s sister(Bertha Miller was their grandmother). Linda has spent enormous sums of money from that trust treating “Nick” to the high life and financing legal attacks against Michael. (Yes friends, she is spending Michael and his sister’s money to fight Nick’s legal battles against Michael!).
“Original Falcon” (a private company owned by Lee and Linda) has recently published a book owned by Lon DuQuette, even after Lon and his lawyer informed them that it was in violation of a contract they have in their possession. This is copyright violation and theft, a further indication of bad moral character.
Stealing, however, is not new for Lee. Alan accused him of trying to
embezzle $50,000 from him and New Falcon. He repeated these charges to many of his friends in the OTO time and time again, as well as myself. Lee and Linda have stolen Alan’s gun collection, and his collection of gold coins and art in an attempt to defraud the trust, and Michael and his sister of their inheritance. I personally know this to be a fact.
Lee has stolen computers, cds, books, computer records, sales history, royalty reports, and Heaven only knows what else from New Falcon Publications. “Nick” has repeatedly slandered the good name of Michael — calling him an ungrateful son, a falsely motivated son, a greedy man who is unable to earn his own bread without stealing from his dying and now-dead father.
On the contrary, Michael Miller has been one of the most successful basketball coaches in California college history; has built absubstantial real estate investment business; has within the past 18bmonths put over 30 New Falcon titles back in print; has redesigned a true publishing website from scratch (
http://www.newfalcon.com); and has been steadily cleaning up the mess created by Lee during Alan’s period ofill-health and following his death. Lee (our boy “Nick”) has mounted a consistent and virulent campaign of libel against Michael in the public forum. He has also engaged in fraud — attempting to prevent Michael from doing business by filing false claims to internet service providers and book distributors.
He accuses Michael of not reading New Falcon books, diminishing his
contribution to Undoing Yourself Too, and the other projects on which Michael worked. He is obviously unaware of the many books and articles Michael co-wrote with his father, which will be published by New Falcon in the future. I personally know about these, as Alan shared the information with me time and time again.
His lies about Alan’s attitude toward Michael and his statements about him are so patently absurd that I feel it is impossible to take them seriously. It is his “word” against Michael’s. Many other friends of Dr. Hyatt, besides me, know exactly how much Michael meant to Alan, and how often he expressed his pride in his son, and his joy that Michael reconnected with him after his rather shoddy treatment of the boy in his early years. Strangely, having said he has kept virtual silence on the issue, Lee Rosenstein refers to his vicious internet attack, "How Michael Miller Came to Be ‘In Charge’”. This slanderous public posting has been on the web for a year.
On a more personal level, Lee and Linda accuse Michael of somehow being guilty of his father leaving his mother when he was a baby. (it is no small magical trick for a baby to cause a divorce and paternal abandonment. If Michael is that high an adept, I congratulate him and will learnfrom him in the future.) However, Lee and Linda seem to relish accusing Michael of having beenadopted by his step-father. As his own father was too young and irresponsible to discharge his parental duties. Alan and Michael worked through these issues during the last 25 years of Alan’s life. My advice to Lee is to address his dysfunctional and non-existent relationship with his own child, rather than focus on Alan and Michael’s relationship.
Lee even posted a phony “sex-wanted ad” purporting to be from Michael. Now this deeply annoyed me. He pretended Michael was making a call for gay sex. Lee is obviously deeply ashamed of his own son — a homosexual from whom he is estranged — and about whom he complained bitterly to Alan and me about on many occasions.
I suggest that if Lee has a problem with gay people, he should work it out with his son.
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