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The Tama-Re compound Dwight York built near Eatonton, Georgia, came under sustained law enforcement scrutiny that culminated in a 2002 investigation into the Nuwaubian Nation. York was arrested and originally charged with more than 100 counts of child molestation stemming from allegations brought forward by former followers and their children.
A federal jury convicted him in January 2004, not on the original state child molestation charges but on ten separate federal counts including racketeering and transporting minors across state lines for sexual abuse. He was sentenced to 135 years in federal prison, a term that effectively ended both his personal freedom and his direct leadership of the movement he had spent four decades building, renaming and relocating.
York remains incarcerated today in the federal Supermax facility in Florence, Colorado, serving that sentence. The compound that once combined Egyptian revival architecture with his shifting teachings no longer functions as it did under his direct leadership, and the federal criminal case that closed his public ministry is now the dominant fact by which outside sources describe the end of his long career as a religious founder.