Southwest Times Record
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Preacher Tony Alamo whose church once ran businesses worth millions of dollars drew a maximum sentence Friday of six years in prison on an income tax conviction. He was also fined $210,000.
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Southwest Times Record
July 29, 1992
By Dave Hughes
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Creditors of Tony Alamo had their first chance Tuesday to question him about his assets and evangelical empire but they found it hard to pin him down.
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Southwest Times Record
June 24, 1992
By Dave Hughes
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The idea that led evangelist Tony Alamo to file for bankruptcy Monday may have been hatched a week earlier in the chambers of a federal court judge.
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Arkansas Democrat
June 23, 1992
BY LARRY AULT
Democrat-Gazette Staff Writer
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Cult leader Tony Alamo filed a $16.8 million bankruptcy petition Monday that lists $6.6 million in federal taxes and $5 million owed to the U.S. Department of Labor.
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Southwest Times Record
June 16, 1992
By Dave Hughes
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FAYETTEVILLE – – Evangelist Tony Alamo on Monday promised a U.S. District Court judge he would pay $5 million by mid-1994 after once complaining he couldn’t comply with court orders to pay employees back wages.
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Los Angeles Times
July 11, 1993
Sam Enriquez, Times Staff Writer
Religion: Ex-followers recall Tony Alamo’s path as harsh and narrow.
“. . . the prophet who presumes to speak a word in My name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.”
–Deuteronomy 18:20, quoted by an ex-follower of Tony Alamo.
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In: 1990-1999, Eye Witness & First Hand Accounts of Abuse
Los Angeles Times
April 28, 1993
Stepdaughter Testifies About Rape by Alamo
“Evangelist Tony Alamo’s stepdaughter testified Tuesday that he raped her, and a former wife said he beat and sexually assaulted her, but a federal magistrate said that was not enough to keep Alamo behind bars pending trial on tax evasion charges and set bail at $50,000.
In an extraordinary hearing that lasted well into the night in U. S. District Court in Los Angeles, Alamo’s stepdaughter made public for the first time her claim that he raped her in 1966, when she was a teen-ager.
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The Commercial Appeal
June 9, 1994
Alamo Found Guilty of Tax Evasion, Jailed
A federal jury Wednesday convicted Tony Alamo on tax charges and the preacher-clothes designer was ordered held in jail without bond. Alamo faces up to six years total on the four counts against him. His sentencing is set for Aug. 26.
U.S. Dist. Judge Jon McCalla ordered Alamo held without bond after a government witness testified that Alamo may have committed bigamy and statutory rape in the past 18 months.
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In: 1990-1999, Polygamy In The News
The Commercial Appeal
June 3, 1994
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Questions repeatedly bring Fifth Amendment from Alamo
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Southwest Times Record
November 21, 1994
Moffett man critically injured
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Southwest Times Record
June 21, 1996
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The Commercial Appeal
September 10, 1994
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“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.
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Newhall Signal
1990
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Jeremiah Justin Miller, 13, testifies in Newhall Municipal Court Thursday how he was held down and beaten bloody with a wooden paddle at the Holy Alamo Foundation’s commune in Saugus. Miller, who was allegedly struck about 140 times, recalled the January 1988 incident during a preliminary hearing for two defendants arrested in the beatings.
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Christian Research Newsletter
by Ron Rhodes
Volume 3: Number 1, 1990
Alamo Sues Jewish Federation Council
The December 21, 1989 Los Angeles Times reports that “an ongoing dispute between the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles and followers of fugitive preacher and clothing designer Tony Alamo moved to the courts this week, as the Alamo faithful filed suit against the federation, which has launched a successful campaign to stop the sale of Alamo jackets.”
The sequined, airbrushed jackets have been good sellers in Southern California boutiques. But sales have dropped off drastically ever since the Jewish Federation’s Commission on Cults and Missionaries began urging retailers to stop selling the product, “charging that money from jacket sales finances cult activities.”
Federation officials said they have been trying to educate retailers about the criminal charges facing Tony Alamo, who — along with three others — was charged with felony child abuse after the alleged beating (to the point of bloodshed) of an 11-year-old boy. Alamo and his cohorts have evaded arrest since October, 1988.
Alamo Designs has responded to the Jewish Federation’s efforts with a lawsuit, seeking $250 million in damages for libel and slander.
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Los Angeles Times
June 25, 1990
The Mattel Toy company has sued religious cult leader Tony Alamo and
two of his companies for having damaged the image of Mattel and
Barbie by marketing an unapproved T-shirt with a “religious symbol.”
Alamo has called Pope John Paul II a “Nazi war criminal,” and has
been evading arrest for felony child abuse. Alamo Designs obtained
two licenses in 1989 to make and sell denim jackets with Barbie
images.
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Los Angeles Times, USA
July 13, 1993
By Sam Enriquez
Evangelist’s empire has crumbled and he faces child abuse and tax charges. He says it’s all a plot to stop his spreading the Gospel.
Hounded by government agents, faced with financial ruin and slandered by some of the very souls he labored to save, controversial evangelist and accused tax dodger Tony Alamo says Satan has unleashed a fierce counterattack on his soul-saving enterprises.
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New York Times
Published: June 12, 1994
Jury Convicts Evengelist 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.
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