Robert explains how Tony Alamo became a jacket maker to the stars, providing Michael Jackson, Dolly Parton and others with fashion via child labor. Also, lots of sex crimes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Chapter 1: Who is Tony Alamo and what are his crimes?
Oh, welcome back to Behind the Bastards. We're all doing just so good. Just so good. Talking about Jesus grifters and their Jesus grifting with one of my very favorite people and guests, the great Samantha McVeigh. Samantha, how are you doing?
I am here. That's the answer, right? You're here, alive.
Yes, we've just been talking about how tired and slightly broken we all are already this year.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
But hey, we exist.
We're still alive, technically, you know?
Yes.
Not in the ways that matter, maybe, but like technically, you know? Yes.
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Chapter 2: What bizarre events followed Susan Alamo's death?
First of all, the voice is fantastic. Did he take on like hippie speak in order to like sell this after all of that?
No, he comes out of that world. You know, I think he is at one point, I think in the late 60s, he probably was trying his hand at being a hippie. You know, he's in L.A. around that time.
I guess hippie and jean jacket, denim, maybe they do go hand in hand. I don't know.
Sure. He is, and this whole cult is shrapnel of the hippie movement, right? The hippie movement doesn't really change anything. A lot of people wind up on the street and mentally damaged in the aftershocks of the anti-war movement and the summer of love. And Tony and his initial cult followers are those people.
Mm-hmm.
So being decent reporters, the LA Times crew reached out to the FBI about the fact that this guy, who's apparently one of their most wanted, seems to still be selling jean jackets in Hollywood. Quote, FBI spokesman Jim Nielsen said the Bureau is continuing its search for Alamo, but refused to elaborate on the investigation.
Now, if you're thinking, boy, isn't the fact that this serial child molester and child trafficker manufacturing expensive clothing for the most famous people on earth and giving interviews while on the run from the FBI, isn't that a hideous indictment of our federal law enforcement agencies? And my answer would be, oh, man, they were up to so much worse shit than this in the mid-90s, bro.
I don't know what to tell you.
Right.
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