The wellness brand advertised on your favorite parenting podcast is run by the same two people who are, per California’s own filing, the chief executive and chief financial officer of a Hindu sect whose guru was convicted on twenty counts of child molestation and fled the country. One of them is the court-recorded surety on the bond that let him go.
Every claim on this site is a court record, a government filing, or a graded inference. Nothing here is a finding of guilt against anyone but the one man a jury convicted.
The whole case from the court file: the conviction, the bond Peter Spiegel signed, the mother who sued both founders by name, the escape, and the million a year the sect’s Canadian arm sends to India while the American temples file nothing.
Read the investigationThe American temples file nothing. Canada’s public return shows about half its intake, a million a year, leaving for India, and ten donor-advised funds carrying the American money in anonymized.
A false passport, a drive to the Mexican border, and the fugitive’s Indian bank statements moving to the man who now sells clean air.
From a 1997 FTC order that named Spiegel to a 2021 EPA penalty, with an offshore trademark trail through Hong Kong behind the brands.
The 211-acre estate was re-titled into a trust weeks after the police report and before the guru was arrested. Today it is $22 million, tax-exempt.
The Indian empire the diaspora money feeds, the girls’ schools and the temples, and the succession war over a multi-billion-rupee trust.
Katie Williams says she funds 60,000 girls in India. The number is the sect’s own, and the company’s impact page scrubs the program.
A cluster of glossy “spiritual journey” websites, bought in batches of seconds, built to bury the founders’ names in search.
The rule that killed the 2010 racketeering suit fell in 2025. Here is the plaintiff who could finally bring the case.
Every load-bearing claim traced to its source: the bond file, the 2008 deed, the victim suits, the escape affidavit, the tax returns, the SEC raise, the EPA penalty.
The public record and the coverage around it, gathered so anyone can read the primary material and go further.
The JKP Map is independent reporting and analysis on a matter of public concern. The only criminal conviction referenced anywhere on this site is that of Prakashanand Saraswati; every other person named is presumed to have acted lawfully, and nothing here is a finding of anyone else’s guilt or civil liability. Victim identities, home addresses, and confidential-source identities are withheld.