Editing Alamo Christian Foundation (section)

===Tax problems and criminal proceedings===
In 1982, the same year that Susan Alamo died,<ref name="LewisControv">{{Cite book |title=Controversial New Religions |title-link=Controversial New Religions |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2004 |isbn=978-0-19-515682-9 |editor-last=Lewis |editor-first=James R. |editor-link=James R. Lewis (scholar) |edition=1st |location=New York |language=en |editor-last2=Petersen |editor-first2=Jesper Aagaard |chapter=Introduction |page=8}}</ref> Alamo discontinued the foundation in their name.

He replaced it with the newly incorporated Music Square Church (MSC).<ref name=LewisEncyc2nd/> MSC had been granted [[501c]] tax-exempt status in 1981.<ref name="court">{{cite web |url=http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/federal/judicial/fed/opinions/99opinions/99-5109.html |title=Music Square Church v. United States|date=July 13, 2000|id=99-5109|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110607105536/http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/FEDERAL/judicial/fed/opinions/99opinions/99-5109.html |archive-date=June 7, 2011}}</ref> After the federal government had started investigation of the entity, the [[Internal Revenue Service|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."<ref name="court"/> MSC sued and lost in the [[United States Court of Federal Claims]]. It lost on appeal to the [[United States Court of Appeals]] in 1999.<ref name="court"/>

Alamo was arrested several times throughout his life, beginning with a charge for illegally possessing a weapon in 1966, for which he served prison time before he married Susan Alamo.<ref name="LewisControv"/><ref name=LewisEncyc2nd/> He encountered increasing problems after Susan's death. Women said that he had sexually abused both them and minor children. In 2009, Alamo was convicted of 10 counts of transporting [[Minor (law)|minors]] as young as 9 across state lines for sex. Alamo received the maximum sentence for his crimes, 175 years in prison.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2009/images/07/24/tony.alamo.verdict.pdf|title=Federal Verdict Slip}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author=<!--Not stated-->|title=Evangelist guilty of taking minors across state lines for rape|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/24/arkansas.evangelist.trial/|work=[[CNN]]|date=July 24, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author1=Buerkle, Rebecca|author2=Rues, Monika|date=July 24, 2009|title=KHTV Little Rock (Local Coverage) |url=http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=88474&catid=238 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928042643/http://www.todaysthv.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=88474&catid=238 |archive-date=September 28, 2011 }}</ref><ref name="NYTimes2017"/><ref name="Time2017"/>

In June 2013, the federal government filed forfeiture and collection actions in federal court on 27 properties which were owned by members of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, in an attempt to collect $2.5 million in restitution that Alamo was ordered to pay to his victims. The U.S. Attorney's Office argued that the owners were "owners in name only" because the properties were still under Alamo's control.<ref>{{cite news|author=Abramson, Alana |title=Feds Target Jailed Evangelist Tony Alamo's Property |work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]]|date=June 12, 2013 |url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/06/feds-target-jailed-evangelist-tony-alamos-property |access-date=October 24, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130828000730/https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/06/feds-target-jailed-evangelist-tony-alamos-property/ |archive-date=August 28, 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>