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Tommy Scarcello 1987
History: Scarcello has been with the Alamo Foundation since 1970. His first wife was D.B. (a.k.a Piper). Piper left the group in the late 1980’s and shortly thereafter Scarcello married Susan McElroy-Miller, who is a representative for Arm Full of Help (cult leader and convicted felon, Tony Alamo’s, tax exempt charity). In the 1970’s and 1980’s Scarcello managed Alamo’s salvage business, TCB (Tennessee Country Boy) Distributors.
Burt & Miriam Krantz 1992
These Alamo associates were seen at the local, Fouke, town council meeting, February 2007.
Ben Edwards
Bert Krantz
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Print out and distribute the above flyer in and around any locations that the Alamo Ministries are active in your community.
In: Uncategorized
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.
Many have unknowingly supported the Alamo Ministries by tithing or donating to Tony Alamo’s organization through Arm Full of Help. According to Arm Full of Help’s website , contributions are tax deductible through Holiness Tabernacle Church, Inc. According to documents filed with the U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals, available on their website , Holiness Tabernacle Church is an arm of Alamo Ministries. In addition, several of the spokespeople of Arm Full of Help, such as Susan McElroy (Susan McElroy–Miller–Scarcello), identified in a Los Angeles Times article shown on the Arm Full of Help website, are members of Alamo Ministries. In 1994, however, Alamo was convicted of income tax fraud for using money earned by or contributed to Alamo Ministries as his own personal income. In the trial leading to this conviction, the prosecution showed that while Alamo’s followers lived simply, Alamo himself lived in lavish style from profits of his supposed ministry.
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In: Arm Full Of Help
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.
In: 1990-1999
If you have been doing your research and paying attention to the verifiable facts on this website, you are aware that Tony Alamo is the self proclaimed prophet and leader of the Alamo Ministries. You are also aware that NOTHING is done within the group without his direct approval or direction. If you have to go to the doctor, you have to ask Tony’s permission. If you have to go to the dentist, you have to ask Tony’s permission. If you need anything at all, you must ask Tony to acquire it for you.
This being said, it would seem very unlikely that you don’t have to ask Tony for permission to marry someone. However, that is what he claims in this sound bite. Many people have witnessed the child weddings and we were lucky enough to get an actual photo from the day one of the ceremonies took place. Click here to view the wedding photo of twelve year old Jackie Garner.
In: Sound Bites
Most of the children born into the Tony Alamo Ministries have no birth certificates or legal identification. Unless there is a complication in the delivery of a child, all children (infants) are born using a midwife (who is also devoted to the group) in the home.
There is no way to prove how many children are born into the group or how many die because of this blatant disregard for the legal system. Unfortunately, when the children become adults and leave the group, they have no way of proving their identity.
In: Secrets Exposed!
The marriages performed in the Tony Alamo Ministries are not done legally, with few exceptions. This is especially the case if one of the parties is under age. There are no licenses or any records to prove or disprove that a marriage has been performed.
As is the case with many of these totalistic groups, no marriage is performed without the consent of the leader. Tony Alamo often plays match-maker and has always required his followers to get his approval before a ceremony is performed. This is done for two reasons: Alamo needs to maintain absolute control over his followers, and who they are partnered with plays a big part in the united front. And most importantly, the legal ramifications of allowing children to marry could be catastrophic to the organization.
In: Secrets Exposed!
Tony Alamo has repeatedly denied being a polygamist, even though he supports the idea publicly through audio messages on ploygamy that were handed out to his followers in the 1990’s. His continuous lies under oath and over the years make the validity of his statements questionable. The fact that he pled the Fifth when asked about his multiple wives and the numerous witnesses that have come forward with information to the contrary does little to persuade people to believe his side of the story.
One of the rebuttals that Alamo often uses when confronted with this polygamist accusation is “I am only married to one woman. Anyone can do a search through court records to find out the truth about it.”
In: Sound Bites
Since Tony Alamo began practicing polygamy and including young girls as his new brides, he has maintained the same defense on the issue of the right to marry children. He justifies the marrying of children by defining any young girl who has begun menstruating as being of child bearing age, therefore they are women and of marriageable age. To those of us who have daughters who are 8, 9 and 10 years of age and in the early stages of puberty, this explanation is an outrage and meant to justify his perverse desire to be intimate with children.
These are short sound bites from Tony Alamo’s messages . These message can be heard, in their entirety, here and the older ones can be heard here.
In: Sound Bites
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In: Tell Your Story
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.
In: 1990-1999
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.
In: 1990-1999
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.
In: 1990-1999
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.
In: 1990-1999
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.
In: 1990-1999
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