The onetime Rajneeshpuram spokesperson and loyal sannyasin was living fairly high on the hog after the commune moved back to India. Then again, Knapp would have been lucky to survive at all, given that there was allegedly at least one plot to kill him while he was incarcerated. And per FBI records (which also divulge all those beans Knapp spilled on his fellow commune members), Knapp graduated from high school in 1967, which about adds up. And public records show that there is a 69-year-old David Berry Knapp who lives in El Segundo today and was born in 1948.
Attorneys office toward immunity) called Trust Capital. It’s no easy task to track his current residence, but curiously, there was a David Knapp who founded an El Segundo, California-based mortgage-brokerage firm in 1985 (right around the time he was working with the U.S. And though Wild Wild Country implies that he was swept off into witness protection, Knapp actually served two years in federal prison for his role in the group’s sophisticated immigration fraud. In recent weeks, several other Rajneesh disciples in Oregon have petitioned the court to resume using their original names.The once-hubristic mayor of Rajneeshpuram fell hard from grace after flipping on Bhagwan and the commune to cut a deal with law enforcement. The guru last was reported visiting Nepal. The commune was disbanded after Rajneesh, who pleaded guilty to federal immigration fraud charges, was ordered out of the country.
He is enrolled in the federal witness protection program, and has resumed using his former name, David B. He was named mayor last year after Mayor Swami Krisna Deva left Rajneeshpuram with several other top Rajneesh aides.ĭeva was indicted on state and federal charges, and since has agreed to testify for the government. The attorney has represented several Rajneeshee corporations. Before then, the Oregon native practiced law in California. He legally changed his name after traveling to Poona, India, and becoming a disciple of Rajneesh several years ago. Niren is scheduled to appear Tuesday in Wasco County Circuit Court to complete the name change.
Niren, who served as an attorney for guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, has lived at the central Oregon commune founded by the guru’s disciples since 1981 and is married to Ma Prem Isabel, who headed Rajneeshpuram’s press-relations section.
(AP) _ Swami Prem Niren, mayor of the disbanded commune city of Rajneeshpuram, asked a court to change his name back to Philip J.
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