1/10/10 – VIDEO: A Current Affair (1992): Tony Alamo “minister maniac”
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Texarkana Gazette
July 16, 2009
By: Lynn LaRowe
Alleged victim testifies in Alamo trial
A 14-year-old girl exchanged wedding vows with Tony Alamo while he was an inmate in Texarkana’s Federal Correctional Institution, according to Thursday morning testimony in his trial.
Ex-Wives testify against Alamo
The Commercial Appeal
September 10, 1994
“A sentencing hearing for the convicted preacher-clothes designer Tony Alamo is expected to conclude Thursday before U.S. Dist. Judge Jon McCalla.
Former wives of Alamo called by government prosecutors testified that they were beaten and raped while part of his religious group.
Tony Alamo held without bond due to bigamy and statutory rape claims
The Commercial Appeal
June 9, 1994
Alamo Found Guilty of Tax Evasion, Jailed
Convicted Tax Evader Tony Alamo Should Be Denied Bail Because He Had Married 15-year-old girls
Los Angeles Times
June 10, 1994
Child Abuse Hearing for Evangelist Delayed Crime: A prosecutor says convicted tax evader Tony Alamo should be denied bail because he had married 15-year-old girls.
A Los Angeles hearing on child abuse charges was postponed Thursday for evangelist Tony Alamo, who remained in jail in Memphis, where a federal prosecutor accused him of marrying eight of his followers since 1993, including married women and 15-year-old girls.
Alamo, 59, was convicted by a Memphis federal court jury Wednesday on tax charges. The marriage accusations were made by federal prosecutor Christopher Belcher as an argument against allowing him to go free on bail.
New York Times
Published: June 12, 1994
Jury Convicts Evangelist, Tony Alamo, Of Tax Evasion
The evangelist Tony Alamo has been convicted of tax evasion and jailed after prosecutors said that he was a risk to flee as well as a polygamist who had preyed on married women and girls in his congregation.
Tony Alamo has a document on his website with headlines from newspapers stating “Lawyers Drop Alamo Case”, “Alamo Child Abuse Charges Dropped”, ” Evangelist Alamo Won’t Face Child Abuse Charges”, and so on, but there are no articles to follow, only the headlines. The reason for this is clear. Tony Alamo has claimed that the charges were dropped because he was innocent but the articles that belong to the headlines tell another story. A story of Tony Alamo in hiding for several years once he found out there was an investigation and then a long drawn-out trial for tax evasion that became the focus of prosecutors instead of the child abuse charges. Research the articles for yourself and you will not find one that says Tony Alamo was innocent of the charges or that the charges were dropped because Alamo was found not guilty. Below is just one of the articles in their entirety.
Los Angeles Times
March 7, 1995
by MarK Sabbatini
Sacramento Bee
May 22, 1991
CULT LEADER’S KIN EXPLAINS HER “CON”
I didn’t catch the show myself, but one interested viewer called with some thoughts about a segment of last week’s Unsolved Mysteries. It seems that a former Los Angeles street hustler named Tony Alamo, who had transformed himself into a religious cult figure in Arkansas, had disappeared owing the federal government $19 million.
According to the TV show, the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service are looking for Alamo on tax evasion charges, as well as threatening a federal judge.
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Tulsa World
February 18, 1991
By: MELINDA MORRIS
Few Mourn Tony Alamo Group’s Fall
DYER, Ark. – Resident John Chitwood said he thinks few in this town will be sad to see the Tony and Susan Alamo Foundation leave.
“They wouldn’t even talk to us. They looked down on us,” he said of the group that calls itself a Christian foundation and is known for distributing anti-Catholic pamphlets.
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Source: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Publication Date: 11/27/1998
Author: Martin, Jeff
Townspeople worry Alamo may try to rebuild religious empire upon prison release
DYER, Ark. _ The guards who once kept outsiders away from the Alamo compound are long gone.
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The Tampa Tribune
July 13, 1991
Judge Orders Alamo To Returned To Arkansas To Face Charges
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The Tampa Tribune
July 7, 1991
Religious Leader Wanted In 2 States
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St Petersburg Times
July 6, 1991
Fugitive Cult Leader, Tony Alamo, is Arrested in Tampa
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TAMPA — A flamboyant cult leader sought by federal agents was arrested Friday at his upscale south Tampa home after two years as a fugitive.
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Los Angeles Times
June 10, 1994
Child Abuse Hearing for Evangelist Delayed Crime: A prosecutor says convicted tax evader Tony Alamo should be denied bail because he had married 15-year-old girls.
A Los Angeles hearing on child abuse charges was postponed Thursday for evangelist Tony Alamo, who remained in jail in Memphis, where a federal prosecutor accused him of marrying eight of his followers since 1993, including married women and 15-year-old girls.
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Los Angeles Times
August 11, 1998
Susan Alamo entombed in Tulsa
Van Buren, Arkansas — Susan Alamo’s remains were placed in a crypt in Tulsa, putting to rest a years-long fight over the body.
Mrs. Alamo, the wife of evangelist Tony Alamo, died of cancer in 1982. She was entombed Monday.
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Los Angeles Times
February 20, 1997
Cult Leader Loses Ruling Over Dead Wife’s Body
The Arkansas Court of Appeals on Wednesday dismissed on a technicality religious cult leader Tony Alamo’s appeal of an order requiring him to produce the missing body of his long-dead wife for burial.
The body of Susan Alamo, who died of cancer in 1982, disappeared from a Dyer, Ark., mausoleum owned by the cult in 1991, shortly after federal authorities moved to seize church assets for tax irregularities.
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Los Angeles Times
October 1, 1995
Preacher Tony Alamo Told to Return Wife’s Remains
He’s a convicted tax evader and a flamboyant evangelist who once ran what authorities called a multimillion-dollar, Saugus-based cult. Now Tony Alamo is also a grave robber–at least in the eyes of an Arkansas judge, who has ordered him to lay to rest his wife’s missing 13-year-old corpse.
“It’s putting closure to it, finally,” said Alamo’s stepdaughter, Christhiaon Coie of Reseda, who sued Alamo literally over her mother’s dead body and for whom the legal decision represents a symbolic burial of her mother’s and her tortured past.
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Los Angeles Times
March 30, 1992
Mystery Over Missing Body Stalks Tony Alamo
Lawsuit: His stepdaughter accuses the religious figure of spiriting off the remains of his fourth wife. His countersuit claims he has been slandered.
Call it a morbid sideshow, a strange offshoot to the ongoing tribulations of religious figure Tony Alamo.
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Southwest Times Record
November 9, 1991
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Evangelist says he doesn’t have body
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Los Angeles Times
February 20, 1991
Body of Cult Leader’s Wife Stolen From Mausoleum
Arkansas: A court order had forbidden members from taking remains of Susan Alamo. Marshals had seized the property to pay off debts.
The body of Susan Alamo, wife of fugitive cult leader Tony Alamo, was taken from a mausoleum on the cult’s compound in Arkansas after federal marshals had seized the property to satisfy a legal judgment, authorities said Tuesday.
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