>If you did recieve a paycheck and no taxes were withheld... then I suspect that the IRS would be interested??<

I suspect the statute of limitation - which is very generous under US Law - would mean that any tax evasion at DECA would not now be pursuable.

Also - who would be liable ? The DECA company (companies ?) were long ago disolved. When the business was sold to what became AMP  a number of premies did get regular jobs with the new owner, which was an entirely reputable non Rawat related business. Even if AMP had taken on 'transferable employee' rights - AMP itself was sold some years ago so it's difficult to see where any legal responsibility would lay.

From  http://www.prem-rawat-maharaji.info/index.php?id=24

Work on the Boeing 707 was completed in 1980 but the plane was never put into service for Prem Rawat and was sold to Maharishi Mahesh Yogi who had it flown to Malaysia where it rapidly fell into disuse because its emissions exceeded legal limits.

The DECA business sought development as a corporate jet customization operation but proved unviable and was soon sold, being renamed Aircraft Modular Products(AMP). Some of Prem Rawat's followers gained employment with AMP but the company had no other links with Rawat or his organizations. AMP prospered and was sold in 1998 by it's then owner Roger Koch for over US$ 100 million.

It is unclear what happened to the receipts from the sale of the Boeing 707 and the DECA business. There appears to have been a chronic incapacity within Divine Light Mission to protect either its interests as a charity or the interests of those who voluntarily assisted it. Numerous business operations started by Prem Rawat's followers seem to have become absorbed into a quasi corporate structure ostensibly to the benefit of Divine Light Mission, only to be 'demerged' to the sole benefit of subsequent owners.