Rajneeshpuram members released from prison, to be deported
[June, 1998]
When US Attorney Charles Turner began to look into charges being brought against the Rajneeshpuram group a decade ago, members of the group conspired to murder him. Two members who were sentenced to five years in prison in 1995 for conspiracy to commit murder -- Sally-Anne Croft and Susan Hagan -- are now being released and deported to their native England. Other members who took part in the conspiracy were granted leniency for their testimonies against the others. Rajneeshpuram was a group in central Oregon that followed Indian guru Bhagwan Rajneesh. The charges Turner was investigating involved numerous sham marriages occuring in the group in order to bring more Rajneeshees into the US. Rajneesh was convicted of immigration fraud and deported, and died in 1990. The Rajneeshpuram group, in Antelope, OR, at one time had as many as 4,000 members, often armed, and Rajneesh had 93 Rolls Royces; but the group fell apart in 1985.
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