The State - News from Jan. 2, 1989
A former aide to Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh has returned to Oregon after her release from a federal prison in California, where she served time for food poisoning and wiretapping. Ma Anand Puja, 40, former secretary of the Rajneesh Medical Corp., was convicted for her role in helping cause a 1984 salmonella epidemic that afflicted about 750 people in the town of The Dalles. She also helped install a wiretapping network at Rajneeshpuram, a ranch in the high desert of central Oregon that served as the guru’s world headquarters until he was deported in 1985.
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