OREGON – RAJNEESH DOCUMENTS:

http://www.oregonlive.com/rajneesh/index.ssf/documents.html

Statements to Investigators by Ma Ava:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/73830-01-ava-avalos-fbi-statement.html#document/p13/a14399

Criminal Trial Testimony by Ma Ava:

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/73907-ava-avalos-trial-testimony

Grand Jury testimony by Ava:

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/73852-22-ava-avalos-grand-jury.html

Statements to Investigators (FBI) by Sw.Krishna Deva:

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/73831-02-krishna-deva-fbi-statement.html

Criminal Trial Testimony: Sw. Krishna Deva:

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/73910-swami-krishna-deva-trial-testimony.html

Statements to Investigators- exhibits (FBI) by Sw.Krishna Deva:

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/73837-08-krishna-deva-exhibits.html

Criminal Trial Testimony by Ma Dhyan Yogini

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/73908-ma-dhyan-yogini-trial-testimony.html

Federal Election Commission investigation of Rajneesh movement.pdf

https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3AFederal_Election_Commission_investigation_of_Rajneesh_movement.pdf&page=1

Letters from Sheela while she was in jail:

http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/73842-13-ma-anand-sheela-prison-letters.html

Trials and convictions

Federal prosecutions of the Rajneeshees stretched over 20 years after charges were filed in 1985 and those accused surrendered one by one over the years. Four remain fugitives. Here are the cases closed by federal and state prosecutors, listed by their sannyasin name and their given name at the time they were in Oregon.

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh – Pleaded guilty to federal immigration charges; fined $400,000, put on five years probation, deported.

Ma Anand Sheela (Sheela Birnstiel) – Pleaded guilty to federal immigration fraud, salmonella poisoning, wiretap conspiracy, state charges of attempted murder and first-degree arson. Served two years in federal prison; released 1988. Subsequently convicted of murder conspiracy in trial held in Switzerland and was fined.

Ma Anand Puja (Diane Onang) – Pleaded guilty to federal charges of salmonella poisoning and wiretap conspiracy and state charge of attempted murder. Served two years in federal prison; released 1988.

Ma Prem Savita (Sally Anne Croft) – Convicted of federal charges of conspiracy to murder and wiretap conspiracy. Served two years in federal prison; released 1998.

Ma Anand Su (Susan Hagan) – Convicted of federal charges of conspiracy to murder and wiretap conspiracy. Served two years in federal prison; released 1998.

Ma Yoga Vidya (Ann McCarthy) – Pleaded guilty to federal charges of immigration fraud and conspiracy to murder. Served 10 months in federal prison; released 2003.

Swami Krishna Deva (David Knapp) – Pleaded guilty to federal immigration fraud charge and state racketeering charge. Served 18 months in federal prison; released in 1988.

Ma Dhyan Yogini (Alma Peralta) – Pleaded guilty to federal charge of murder conspiracy. Served 18 months in federal prison; released 1992.

Ma Prem Samadhi (Samadhi Selecki, Carol Matthews) – Pleaded guilty to federal charges of murder conspiracy and wiretap conspiracy, sentenced to three years in federal prison; released November 1994.

Swami Anugiten (Richard Kevin Langford) – Pleaded guilty to federal murder conspiracy, served two years in federal prison; released 1994.

Ma Shanti Bhadra (Jane Elsea) – Pleaded guilty to state charge of attempted murder, served one year in federal prison; released 1987. Later pleaded guilty to federal charge of murder conspiracy, sentenced to probation.

Ma Prem Arup (Maria Kortenhorst) – Pleaded guilty to wiretap conspiracy, sentenced to five years probation.

Ma Prem Geeta (Mary Ann Price) – Pleaded guilty to federal charge of wiretap conspiracy, sentenced to five years probation.

Ma Anand Jagruti (Bonnie Barlow) – Pleaded guilty to federal wiretap conspiracy charge and state election fraud charge, sentenced to five years probation.

Ma Anand Kamala (Lori Sargent) – Pleaded guilty to federal wiretap conspiracy charge, sentenced to five years probation.

Ma Prem Karuna (Wendy Cutler Wyatt) – Pleaded guilty to federal charge of making a false statement to grand jury, sentenced to five years probation.

Ma Prem Kavia (Evag Wells) – Pleaded guilty to federal charge of wiretap conspiracy, sentenced to two years probation.

Ma Prem Kavido (Cathy Lee Knapp) – Pleaded guilty to federal charge of wiretap conspiracy, sentenced to five years probation.

Ma Deva Kranto (Gail Ellen Murphy) – Pleaded guilty to federal charge of wiretap conspiracy, sentenced to three years probation.

Ma Prem Mukta (Mary Agnes Evans) – Pleaded guilty to federal wiretap conspiracy, sentenced to five years probation.

Ma Deva Navena (Emily Jane Goldman) – Pleaded guilty to federal wiretap conspiracy, sentenced to five years probation.

Ma Prem Padma (Suzanne Pelletier) – Pleaded guilty to federal charge of wiretap conspiracy, sentenced to five years probation.

Ma Prem Patipada (Mary Anne Young) – Pleaded guilty to federal charge of wiretap conspiracy, sentenced to five years probation.

Ma Deva Rikta (Phyllis Caldwell) – Pleaded guilty to federal wiretap conspiracy, sentenced to five years probation.

Swami Prem Rajesh (Alan Thomas Gay) – Pleaded guilty to federal wiretap conspiracy, sentenced to five years probation.

Swami Anubahvo (Jorg Dauscher) – Charged with federal counts of wiretap conspiracy; remains a fugitive.

Swami Anand Michel (Michael Bisson) – Charged with five federal counts of wiretap conspiracy; remains a fugitive.

Swami Julian (Julian James) – Charged with five federal counts of wiretap conspiracy; remains a fugitive.

Swami Prem Rajan (Gerald L. Dunsford) – Charged with two federal counts of wiretap conspiracy; remains a fugitive.

Swami Deva Kuteer (Carlo Zansi) – Charged with one count of wiretap conspiracy; charged dismissed in 2006.

Swami Veet Sandeha (James Henningham) – Charged with one federal count of wiretap conspiracy; charge dropped in 1994.

Swam Dhyan Dipo (Urs Birnstiel) – Charged with federal count of wiretap conspiracy; charge dismissed in 1993 following his death overseas.

(Information accessed from archived page on the Oregonian http://www.oregonlive.com/rajneesh/index.ssf/federal_prosecutions_of_rajnee.html – now available at http://archive.is/wIrI3 17 February 2018