When Tony & Susan began their ministry they preached about sacrifice and denying the needs of the flesh. They preached about putting away your desires for the things of the world and living humbly for the Lord. This included giving up all family and friends that would not join the group. Tony Alamo still preaches this same message today.

When the Department of Labor and the IRS investigated the Alamo Ministries it blew the lid off of the way that these two “church” leaders were living. They had several large homes (mansions) across the country, fancy cars, diamond rings, furs and anything their hearts desired could and would be specially made for them. All of this was paid for by the members who volunteered their time away from their families and labored for “free”, and then were forced to turn over all income to the group, in service to the Lord (or at least this is what they thought they were doing) while living the most humble of existences. Don and Kathy Wiley’s deposition verifies these facts, as well as part of Susan Alamo’s deposition. Below are some photos of Susan and Tony Alamo that depict their lavish lifestyle in the 1970’s and early 1980’s.

Many followers left after they witnessed the decadence of Tony and Susan Alamo and they were told that they would become homosexuals or be killed by God and burn in a lake of fire for all eternity for “falling away”. Tony Alamo still uses these same fear tactics to keep people from leaving the group. Below is a letter that was drafted in the late 1970’s by a former member of the group. He only spent a few years in the group but fled in the middle of the night with only the clothes on his back. He details the deplorable living conditions of the 1970’s and early 1980’s and the way that converts were “trained” to do all that the Alamo’s expected of their followers. In some case the living conditions have improved but these same “training” tactics are still used today by the Alamo Ministries.

Maurilia Romero

Gordon B. Mac Gregor

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As we know to be the case for most criminals incarcerated or released from prison for a crime – they almost always say they were “railroaded”, “framed” and most definitely they were “innocent”. Tony Alamo is no exception. Unfortunately, his cries of innocence fall on deaf ears when one considers the fact that all of the evidence and witnesses were presented at trial and a jury of his peers found that he was indeed guilty.

Alamo rambles on incessantly about how he was set up by the IRS and the Anti-Christ government because he was preaching the gospel. So now he tells anyone who will listen that he was put in jail for the “gospel sake”. This sounds a lot better than federal tax evasion. PLUS he gets the added bonus of being in the mile high club with all of the other “religious convicts” that were criminals for the gospel sake; Peter, Paul, John, Jesus. Being a self proclaimed prophet, he claims he is in good company.

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Alamo is still using the “persecution” card when people try to bring to light his lies and deceit. Recently, the citizens of Fouke, AR have had enough and began their own campaign to make the community aware of what is going on behind Alamo’s compound. This has prompted the “World Pastor” to bring (what he describes as) several “powerful soul-winning messages” about God “annihilating” all who come against Alamo’s church. He mentions several people who have suffered heart attacks and claims it was because they came against the Alamo church.

There is a little known fact amongst anyone who actually knows Tony Alamo and how he uses psychology to get his followers to obey and believe he actually hears from the Lord. One of the more effective methods is to claim that anyone who becomes ill has been afflicted by God because their soul has fallen away or they have been sinning and they are going to hell by some disease that has manifested because of their rotten souls. In this sound bite he offers to “lay hands on them and cure them” if God allows him to.

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This information was taken from a post on Friday, November 25, 2005 on the Factnet Alamo Foundation Discussion Board

When telling people what a great promoter he was, Tony Alamo often mentions the “Twenty Original Hits” records. In the audio “Earthquake 2” on www.alamoministries.com, for example, about 33 minutes into the recording, he says he invented “Twenty Original Hits” and eventually stopped selling new editions only because he “got bored.” Click here to listen to the sound bite from Earthquake on the 20 original hits.– 2 minutes

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Department of Labor Interrogatories

(prior to the Findings of Facts below) Click the Title above to open the document.

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Tony Alamo was convicted in July 2009 of 10 Federal Counts of taking underage girls across state lines for sex and he is now serving 175 years in a federal penitentiary.

Southwest Times Record
March 19, 2007

Katrina Gift Fuels Lawsuit

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Texarkana Gazette
March 24, 2007

Fouke backs off Circle Drive: Threat of Alamo lawsuit convinces council to stop inquiry into opening road near the ministry headquarters

FOUKE, Ark. A letter threatening a lawsuit against the City of Fouke convinced enough members of the Fouke City Council to approve a resolution stopping any further action to open Circle Drive on the south side of the Tony Alamo Ministries headquarters. During a called council meeting Thursday night, the council approved the resolution to ‘terminate inquiries on Circle Drive and no further review of property rights on the street. Circle Drive dead ends near the headquarters of the Alamo Ministries. In 2006, R&G Securities had been hired to stop traffic from driving on the street and coming onto the parking lot of the ministries. Proposals had been made to extend Circle Drive to connect to Forrest Street and then open Forrest Street from Circle Drive to Williams Circle. Proposals were made in 2006 to give additional access to property behind the Alamo headquarters. Reportedly, several mobile homes are located behind the ministries and there was concern about the limited access in case of a medical emergency or fire.

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Please check the Legal & Court Documents section regularly. We will be uploading the original court documents and depositions for your reading convenience and so that they may be available to you for printing.

This week we have uploaded the original depositions of:
Don & Kathy Wiley
Tony Alamo
Susan Alamo

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy
March 22, 2007

Nonprofit Group Sued for Selling Donated Katrina Mattresses

Tempur-Pedic International has sued a New Jersey nonprofit organization in federal court for $15-million, accusing it of selling half of the 8,000 mattresses the company donated to Hurricane Katrina refugees, reports the Fort Smith Times Record of Arkansas.

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areopagitica
March 22, 2007

Tony Alamo Strikes Again

Mattress master Tempur-Pedic International has sued Waste to Charity — a New Jersey nonprofit organization — in federal court for $15-million, accusing it of selling half of the 8,000 mattresses the company donated to Hurricane Katrina refugees.

The mattress company alleges that instead of distributing mattresses to storm victims, officials at the alleged charity negotiated side deals to sell 4,000 of them at drastically discounted prices, netting a cool profit of $500,000.

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Here are a few of Tony Alamo’s messages on Polygamy found on the internet. They were recorded in 1993 when he was introducing the concept to his followers and then began taking brides (just before he was convicted of a felony). These messages give a disturbing insight as to the direction Tony Alamo was taking the group in the early 1990’s.

The messages were divided into 2 parts. Each part is approximately 45 minutes long. By clicking on one of the messages below you will download the file to your computer and listen to it with your specific audio program. You might need RealPlayer to listen to the files.
Click here to download the free version of RealPlayer

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Texarkana Gazette
March 22, 2007

Fouke mayor resets City Councils meeting for tonight

Staff photo by Jim Williamson Miller County Deputy Phillip Hardemon, left, taps on the arm of Sherry Potts during a verbal exchange outside the Fouke City Hall Wednesday night with Fouke City Councilman T. O. Hardin. The councilman, right, argued about her right to attend the public meeting. Hardin had called the Miller County Sheriffs Department to complain about Potts and asked to have her removed from city hall. The officer told the crowd to ‘disperse’ and no one was arrested.

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Tony Alamo, who runs “Arm Full of Help” was convicted in July 2009 of 10 Federal Counts of taking underage girls across state lines for sex and he is now serving 175 years in a federal penitentiary.

Reveal

Ex-Cult Resource Center

New England Institute of Religious Research (NEIRR)

Rick A Ross Institute

Wikipedia – Tony Alamo

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When 11 year old Justin Miller was severely beaten with a wooden paddle (late 80’s) Tony Alamo ordered his step-father, Marc Landgarten, to hold him but needed the help of 3 more men so they could hit Justin right on target “spread-eagle in the air”. My ex-husband (also an abuser, but unknown to me at that time) was one of the people Tony chose to hold an arm or a leg. At home, after the beating, he told me he had been keeping count of the swats and said he counted 155, and that he also saw BLOOD that was oozing out of the seat of Justin’s pants!! This sadistic punishment was done at one of the Tony Alamo foundation locations, consisting of 3 houses, around 500 yards from the “church”. It’€™s very secluded there, with no neighbors, not even street-lights, so nobody heard Justin’s screams for help!! Tony was on a speaker-phone, next-door, telling the person swinging the paddle (Terry Farr) how many more times to strike, done “baseball-style”, all the while, looking up SCRIPTURES from the BIBLE and reading them to Justin!! Tony had ALL of the children who lived in the Saugus, Ca. church, at that time, assembled there to witness the beating. One woman, J. S. (15 years old at the time) told me that she had also seen blood coming through Justin’s jeans!! J.S. said to me that every one of those children, including herself and her sister, were called back over to Tony Alamo’s house later on and told by Tony, “you never saw a spanking”, ” nobody ever was spanked”, “there was no spanking that happened”, etc. These children who were ordered to be there were age 3 to 15. Knowing Tony as I do, after being in the organization for 21 messed up years, in my opinion he had those children there so that they would always fear him the rest of their lives. Tony is into “total control of every follower” and, as Hitler, will settle for no less than COMPLETE OBEDIENCE !!!!

CLAUDIA CHERVYAKOVA

TONY AND SUSAN ALAMO RELIGIOUS FOUNDATION TAPE #2 TRANSCRIPTIONS
08/21/80

GA = Glenn Adams
Don = Don Wiley
Kathy = Kathy Wiley

GA — “Now, were you officers in the Foundation?”

DON — “There’s no such thing as an officer or chain of command or hierarchy. It’s all Tony and Susan. Oh, there is an innercircle that is given the — to which authority is delegated so to speak. But, in the final analysis, any decision that is made, they make. ”

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Texarkana Thrifty Nickel
March 15, 2007

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