Early years Tony and Susan Alamo founded the Alamo Christian Foundation in 1969 in
Hollywood, California. The church became the subject of controversy, especially as its members were active in trying to recruit new members in Hollywood. It was frequently criticized for its manner of
evangelization, which frequently involved requiring young members of the congregation to walk around Hollywood, inviting people to convert to Christianity. They would take them to the church in
Agua Dulce – roughly an hour away – for evening services, consisting of a meeting and a meal. Many of these individuals chose to stay on to become
Bible students and
lay ministers. The church published religious tracts, and it also distributed tapes of sermons by the Alamos. With the help of some church members, they also produced records and tapes, and they launched a national television ministry in the 1970s. It was then entombed in a
heart-shaped
marble mausoleum on church property. In 1991, the federal government confiscated the property. Its agents learned that Susan's remains had been removed. Her estranged daughter, Christhiaon Coie, filed a lawsuit against Tony Alamo because he had stolen the body. Her stepfather (by an earlier marriage of her mother) obtained a court order which required Tony Alamo to return the body.
Tax problems and criminal proceedings In 1982, the same year that Susan Alamo died, Alamo discontinued the foundation in their name. He replaced it with the newly incorporated Music Square Church (MSC). After the federal government had started investigation of the entity, the
IRS retroactively revoked that tax-exempt status on April 5, 1996. The IRS Commissioner found that "MSC was so closely operated and controlled by and for the benefit of Tony Alamo that it enjoyed no substantive independent existence; that MSC was formed and operated by Tony Alamo for the principal purpose of willfully attempting to defeat or evade federal income tax; and that MSC was inseparable from Tony Alamo, and failed to operate for exclusively charitable purposes."
Death of Tony Alamo Alamo died on May 2, 2017, while he was in custody at the
Federal Medical Center, Butner in
Butner, North Carolina. He was 82 years old. The site, along with this notice, was still live, but it was inactive, . The website had made two posts about Israel and a post with a file entitled
There is no Palestine or "19200.
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