Lepicote is a complex of beige, several story buildings on the southern end of the city.

It's a prison that made news recently, after the Attorney General opened an investigation

into the facility.

During rumors of dayslong parties of gambling and champagne, it wouldn't be a difficult

place it seems to obtain a cell phone, which Mark apparently was able to do.

Mark has, after all, found many ways in his life to dodge the authorities.

For this time, Mark didn't sound like he was having a party.

Mark was now painting himself as a political prisoner.

And over the next two-plus years, these warbly transmissions from Mark's jail cells would

continue to reach his followers with a new and conveniently altered message.

The MMS movement is under attack, and the Genesis 2 Church of Health and Healing had its

murder.

Its murder, unsurprisingly, was Mark.

He'd supposedly been granted life, liberty, and property.

The government had stripped him of each inalienable right, except for his life, and the government,

one he calls a corporation, was unlawfully coming after him, at least from his perspective.

And adding insult to injury, they wouldn't even give him his day in court.

And during these years that he and his sons spent in jail awaiting trial, Mark seemed

to avoid one real and pressing reality at every turn.

He could be going to prison for a long, long time.

Still, he appeared incapable of giving up.

He tried every trick in the book, to keep his church and his empire from collapsing.

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