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Ex-members aim to seize ministry buildings

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Thank you joe Sz :idea:
Ex-members aim to seize ministry buildings
Now there's a thought ;-)

Class Action anyone?

David
From: "Info-Secte" <infosecte@qc.aibn.com
To: "'Info-Secte'" <infosecte@qc.aibn.com
Subject: Ex-members aim to seize ministry buildings
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:08:43 -0500

Ex-members aim to seize ministry buildings
Arkansa Online, February 6, 2013
By Andy Davis
Attorneys for two former members of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries have
asked a judge to order the seizure and auction of six ministry buildings in
Fort Smith to satisfy a $30 million judgment against the ministry's leader.

In a court filing Monday evening, attorneys for Spencer Ondrisek and Seth
Calagna asked U.S. Magistrate Judge Barry Bryant to order the seizure and
auction of a ministry church and gym building on Windsor Drive, a warehouse
on South Fourth Street, a house and a former restaurant building on 16th
Street and a parking lot on 17th Street.

The deeds to the properties list church members as the owners, but the
filing calls that a "scam" to protect ministry leader Tony Alamo from
creditors.

"Certain individuals have admitted that while they're on the deed, they're
holding title for the benefit of Tony Alamo," W. David Carter, an attorney
for Ondrisek and Calagna, said Tuesday.

The court filing cites Arkansas Code Annotated 16-66-201, which lists real
estate held by another person for a defendant's use as among the types of
property that can be seized to satisfy a judgment against the defendant.

If Bryant grants the request, Carter said the Fort Smith property would be
seized by the U.S. Marshals Service and sold at a public auction.

The sale likely wouldn't be enough to satisfy the judgment, but Carter said
he and the other attorneys also plan to target other properties.

"We'll keep looking at properties in Arkansas and other states and not stop
until it's satisfied," Carter said.

Attorneys for Alamo didn't return calls seeking comment Tuesday.

In their lawsuit, Ondrisek and Calagna said Alamo ordered the church's
"enforcer," John Kolbeck, to beat them with a wooden board on multiple
occasions while they were children and members of the ministry. Kolbeck died
of heart failure in January 2011.

The two former members also said Alamo berated them, ordered them to fast
and forced them to listen to cassette tapes of his "rebukes" of other
ministry members.

A jury in June 2011 awarded Calagna and Ondrisek $3 million each in damages
for pain, suffering and mental anguish and $30 million each in punitive
damages.

A federal appeals court last year reduced the punitive damages to $12
million for reach plaintiff.

Alamo, 78, was convicted in 2009 of taking five underage girls across state
lines for sex in violation of the federal Mann Act and was sentenced to 175
years in prison.

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2013 ... e-ministry
-buildings-20130206/
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But he has nothing on at all, cried at last the whole people....
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