At my local bookstore on the eve of the 40th anniversary of Woodstock, 1960s nostalgia is in high gear. A display table is stacked high with pricey coffee table books, each with its own variation on psychedelic rainbow lettering, each claiming to reveal the untold story of the “peace and music” festival. I understand the lucrative business of selling those hazy memories — the Woodstock museum, Cherry Garcia ice cream, even the new movie “Taking Woodstock.” I just can’t buy into it.
The U.S. government filed a response Thursday to Tony Alamo’s motion for a new trial, denying reasons exist to give the recently convicted child sex abuser another shot at justice.
A judge Tuesday gave prosecutors until Friday to file a response to evangelist Tony Alamo’s request for a new trial on charges that he transported five underage girls across state lines for sex.
Prosecutors on Monday asked for more time to respond to a request by evangelist Tony Alamo for a new trial on charges that he transported five underage girls across state lines for sex.
An associate of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, who pleaded guilty to violating federal sex offender registration laws, will appear before a federal judge in Fort Smith, Ark., for sentencing later this month.
Two Tony Alamo Christian Ministries members jailed in January for refusing to tell a judge where their missing children and spouses could be found were released Monday from the Miller County jail.
Two members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries were released from jail Monday after spending more than seven months behind bars for refusing to reveal the whereabouts of their children.
Now that Tony Alamo faces a sentence that puts him behind bars for the rest of his life, many are wondering what will happen to his ministry and his followers.
The ministry of evangelist Tony Alamo, convicted last week of taking girls as young as 9 across state lines for sex, still owns housing complexes in Oklahoma, though authorities believe at least one was vacated amid recent investigations.
Anti-Catholic, pro-polygamy evangelist Tony Alamo will likely be preaching from behind prison walls for the rest of his life, and perhaps nobody is happier than his stepdaughter, Christhiaon Coie.
Tony Alamo’s defense team asked for a new trial Friday, one week after the 74-year-old was convicted of bringing young girls across state lines for sex.
So what do you think of when you hear or read the word “evangelist”? Perhaps it would be better to frame the question this way: “Who do you think of when hear or read the word ‘evangelist’?”
Tony Alamo, a one-time street preacher who became an outfitter of the stars and fought the federal government over claims he underpaid followers for church work, was convicted Friday of taking five girls across state lines for sex.
Last year the Voice did a big report on Tony Alamo and his bizarre Christian child-bride cult. New Yorkers of a certain vintage may recall being handed one of Alamo’s insane pamphlets in the subways, where his minions sometimes proselytized. We found Alamo and his Tony Alamo Christian Ministries running charity scams, but it was his polygamous attachment to pre-teens that interested many people — including law enforcement officers.
