In 1978 after Bhaktivedanta Swami passed away eleven US men claimed they were appointed as the successor gurus. In other words, as the new private owners of all these 800 temples and farms around the world that were donated by the members and Indian businessmen. Documents, will, and conversation recordings were kept hidden. Later around 1998 it was exposed that this was a lie. Bhaktivedanta Swami had instructed that all the buildings and farms should be owned by the local temple charities. The Americans ruled with an iron fist and threw all disciples of Bhaktivedanta Swami out of the temples. Nobody could do anything because that's how inheritance courts work - after a year things are legally binding. The Americans are very enterprising and simply filled the empty buildings with imported Hindus. And that is what we have today, the Hare Krishna movement became a Hindu project. Of course, the Americans control the booming temple income.
