Research resources: Apologetics Index entry on Tony Alamo / Alamo Christian Ministries
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.
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. The U.S. marshal’s office in 1991 seized cash, merchandise and millions of dollars worth of his property, as well as the Alamo clothing businesses, gas stations, restaurants, grocery stores, the auto shop, the construction firm, the candy
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. 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. The U.S. marshal’s office in 1991 seized
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. Stripped of his church’s holdings in four states, his flock thinning and awaiting trial on charges that he ordered the beating of a young boy in Saugus, Alamo has for more than a year been at the center of a bizarre mystery reaching from the hills of Arkansas to the San Fernando Valley. Where is his former wife’s body?
The Internal Revenue Service said Friday it will begin auctioning hundreds of items, from real estate to keepsake photos, seized from evangelist Tony Alamo and his followers, capitalizing on a federal court’s ruling that the former fugitive’s church was a moneymaking operation that does not merit tax-exempt status.
When flamboyant evangelist Tony Alamo goes to court next month in Newhall on charges that he ordered followers to discipline a young boy by striking him 140 times with a board, he will be represented by an attorney who may be walking familiar ground.
A federal jury in Ft. Smith, Ark., on Thursday found religious cult leader Tony Alamo innocent on a charge that he threatened to kidnap a federal judge. When the verdict was read, Alamo sat motionless at first, then turned and hugged his defense attorney, Jeffrey Dickstein. “It’s a major victory for the people of the United States of America,” Dickstein said. “Every church in the United States was at issue in this case. If government had won this one, no pastor could bad-mouth . . . the government.” Alamo was charged with threatening to have U.S. District Judge Morris S.
Though hunted across the nation by federal agents, religious cult leader Tony Alamo lived an open, if not completely public, life before his capture this month in Florida.
Cult experts say the jailing of Tony Alamo and the seizures of most properties belonging to the Holy Alamo Christian Church will probably mean the end of the cult. But in interviews with several of Alamo’s followers who flocked to a courthouse in Tampa earlier this month to support him, it is apparent that they view the jailed pastor as a near-martyr whose captivity will rally them to the cause. They emphatically denied that his church would founder.
After nearly three years on the run, fugitive Saugus cult leader Tony Alamo was arrested Friday in Tampa, Fla., by U.S. marshals and local police, authorities said.