Southwest Times Record
March 19, 2007

Katrina Gift Fuels Lawsuit

A high-end mattress maker has brought suit in federal court accusing several groups and individuals of illegally selling more than half of the 8,000 mattresses it donated to aid people hit by Hurricane Katrina.

The other half, the manufacturer believes, are sitting in a Booneville warehouse controlled by several defendants, including one purportedly linked to cult leader and convicted felon Tony Alamo.

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Many have unknowingly supported the Alamo Ministries by tithing or donating to Tony Alamo’s organization through Arm Full of Help. According to Arm Full of Help’s website , contributions are tax deductible through Holiness Tabernacle Church, Inc. According to documents filed with the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, available on their website , Holiness Tabernacle Church is an arm of Alamo Ministries. In addition, several of the spokespeople of Arm Full of Help, such as Susan McElroy (Susan McElroy-Miller-Scarcello), identified in a Los Angeles Times article shown on the Arm Full of Help website, are members of Alamo Ministries. In 1994, however, Alamo was convicted of income tax fraud for using money earned by or contributed to Alamo Ministries as his own personal income. In the trial leading to this conviction, the prosecution showed that while Alamo’s followers lived simply, Alamo himself lived in lavish style from profits of his supposed ministry.

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