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In: In Memory Of
This excerpt from the attached interrogatory over child support was filed Sept 2, 1969, Superior Court of the state of California, for the county of Los Angeles. You can click here to open and read the entire deposition.
Judy Lee Stearns, Plantiff vs.
Bernie Lazar Hoffman, Defendant
Q. Have you ever had sexual relations with the plantiff?
A. I have never had normal sexual relations with the plantiff.
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In: Legal & Court Documents
Prophecy Digest
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In: 1970-1979
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In: 1970-1979
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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In: 1990-1999
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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In: 1990-1999
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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In: 1990-1999
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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In: 1990-1999
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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In: 1990-1999
Southwest Times Record
By Linda Seubold
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David Kroopf watched with contempt as Tony Alamo walked away from the Washing ton County jail in Fayetteville Tuesday afternoon.
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In: Eye Witness & First Hand Accounts of Abuse
There has been much confusion about cults and how to ‘pickem’.
Some have difficulty identifying a cult because it is not so
easy to identify one that is not even religious. For this
reason, over the years, different definitions of what actually
is a cult have developed to make it easier when you know
little about their beliefs.
The different definitions:
SECULAR DEFINITION
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In: Articles & Literature of Interest
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In: Storage
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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In: 1990-1999, Victim's Testimonies
First Magazine
March 30, 1992
Life Story: Elishah
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My childhood was filled with fear and loneliness. I was the first child born into the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation in Alma, Arkansas. We were supposed to be a religious group, full of love. But it was really a prison.
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In: Victim's Testimonies
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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In: 1990-1999, Polygamy In The News
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Southwest Times Record
November 21, 1994
Moffett man critically injured
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In: 1990-1999
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In: Humor
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Southwest Times Record
June 21, 1996
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In: 1990-1999, Eye Witness & First Hand Accounts of Abuse
