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Tara Rule - Anand Jon Alexander

The case of Anand Jon Alexander is murky and filled with names, some of which are allegedly guilty of the same things. Alexander is serving 59 years to life for sexually abusing teenage models he lured with promises of modelling and more. Needless to say those promises were never fulfilled.

It's the same story as with others; give a hopeful a taste of that world, and as soon as they are inside, deliver nothing but abuse, misery and worse. His crimes are amongst the worst a person can be accused of, so how could he be eligible for parole as soon as 2027? What levers have been pulled, who pulled them and how did he get away with it for so long.

This is a story of subterfuge, betrayal and consequence. But it's also a critique of the Justice System. If victims can't rely on the State to protect them, and seek and enforce the relevant punishments, can any of us feel safe? 16 Felony counts - including forcible rape and crimes against minors should see him serve his full, 59 years in jail.

But after 17 years, a campaign to release him is gaining traction. Why?

Tara Rule is a survivor and an advocate. She will tell this unsettling story.

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Hayes was arrested at the Istanbul airport in 1970 with two kilos of hashish taped to his body. The Turkish High Court sentenced him to life in prison. Five years later, Billy escaped from Imrali Island prison in the dead of night – rowing 17 miles across the Sea of Marmara in a raging storm.

On his return to the US, Hayes wrote Midnight Express.

Published in 18 languages, the book was an instant best-seller.

When the iconic film was released in 1978, Billy Hayes became a mythical figure – a modern-day Billy The Kid. 36 years later,

he remains a cultural anti-hero known throughout the world.

If you’ve seen the movie, you might think you know Billy’s story. But you probably don’t. Midnight Express didn’t win any

Oscars® for factual accuracy. While the film was about prison – a chilling exploration of the depths of incarceration in a

foreign land – Riding the Midnight Express with Billy Hayes is about the prisoner. It’s an intimate, gripping memoir that can only be told by the man who lived it.

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Billy Hayes \ Midnight Express 

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Miracles

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[An] alarming account of a bank heist that rocked the country in 1980. . . For a first-time writer, Houlahan sure knows how to dramatize a scene. His cinematic treatment of the robbery itself reads like wildfire, the fatal shootout with the police ends in colorful chaos, and the huge manhunt through San Bernardino National Forest conducted by ‘Hunt & Kill Teams’ is a nail-biter.” ―The New York Times Book Review

Norco ’80 tells the story of how five heavily armed young men―led by an apocalyptic born-again Christian―attempted a bank robbery that turned into one of the most violent criminal events in U.S. history, forever changing the face of American law enforcement. Part action thriller and part courtroom drama, Norco ’80 transports the reader back to the Southern California of the 1970s, an era of predatory evangelical gurus, doomsday predictions, megachurches, and soaring crime rates, with the threat of nuclear obliteration looming over it all.

In this riveting true story, a group of landscapers transformed into a murderous gang of bank robbers armed to the teeth with military-grade weapons. Their desperate getaway turned the surrounding towns into war zones. When it was over, three were dead and close to twenty wounded; a police helicopter was forced down from the sky, and thirty-two police vehicles were destroyed by thousands of rounds of ammo. The resulting trial shook the community to the core, raising many issues that continue to plague society today: from the epidemic of post-traumatic stress disorder within law enforcement to religious extremism and the militarization of local police forces.

THE GUARDIANS is set in Las Vegas, within the Nevada Guardianship and Family Court systems involving the legal kidnapping of elderly people in a lucrative business that drains seniors’ life-savings and robs them of their freedoms.

Victims and their families are caught in a scheme that has allowed corrupt court-appointed guardians to take total control over their healthcare and financial decisions. Armed with court-orders obtained under dubious circumstances, guardians are able to forcibly remove elderly wards from their homes, isolate them from their families and systematically empty their bank accounts.

In an unfolding saga that reaches to the top level of government, a growing number of Las Vegas victims come together to seek justice, restitution and freedom. Through their fight, the film exposes the scope of the systemic abuse of some of the most vulnerable members of our society.

As our aging population is about to record the largest transfer of wealth in history, we must protect them and their families from those that have been using a broken system to take advantage.

For 40 years nothing and no one has stood in their way. Until now.

A film by Billie Mintz

Produced by JB Sugar and Billie Mintz

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