A CBS News wire obituary, published 24 October 2011, of Kirtanananda Swami (Swami Bhaktipada), reporting his death in India at 74. Independently confirms the New Vrindaban founding, the racketeering charges connected to the killings of two devotees, the 1991 conviction, the August 1996 guilty plea and twenty year sentence later reduced to twelve, his 2004 release and bar from returning to New Vrindaban, and his 2008 relocation to India. A major wire-service news account rather than an official record, but corroborated on every dated fact by Wikipedia's independently sourced timeline.
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Citation
AuthorCBS News (wire report)
PublisherCBS News
Publication Year2011
URLhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/former-us-krishna-leader-swami-bhaktipada-dies
Source Typenews
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Reliability Tier2
A CBS News wire-service obituary reporting facts from the public record of a closed criminal case; tier two as ordinary wire-service news reporting rather than original investigative journalism or a scholarly source. NotesTier 2: major wire-service news reporting, an obituary written on the public record of a closed criminal case rather than original investigative work.
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This source names India directly: "Bhaktipada), reporting his death in India at 74."
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