Seagram's heiress wants judge to let her leave Brooklyn - sex slave trial

[The Bobster]

https://nypost.com/2020/11/30/nxivm-leader-keith-raniere-reportedly-thinks-hell-be-killed-in-prison/

Nxivm leader Keith Raniere reportedly thinks he’ll be killed in prison
By Priscilla DeGregory
November 30, 2020 | 3:55pm

Nxivm sex-cult leader Keith Raniere says he’s as good as dead when he’s transferred to prison, according to a report.

Raniere — who was sentenced to 120 years in prison last month for running the sex-slave cult — can be heard in recordings from this year talking about how dangerous being placed in the general population of a maximum-security prison could be for him, according to recordings that Nxivm’s former publicist, Frank Parlato, posted on his blog the Frank Report.

“Well, with these charges and if I’m sentenced to life and go to a penitentiary, it is a death penalty,” the outlet reported Raniere saying in recordings of messages to his followers.

Raniere — who is being housed in Brooklyn’s federal Metropolitan Detention Center, started expressing worry about his safety in March when he talked about a “vicious” man who, “told various people he would put as much money as necessary, literally hundreds of millions of dollars to have me put in jail for the rest of my life, to have me killed, to have me destroyed.

“To have me, whatever… the worst thing you can imagine,” the blog reported Raniere saying.

Parlatto said there are rumors that members of the Latin Kings and the MS-13 gangs would kill Raniere if they got the chance — though it was unclear where those rumors were spreading or how he came to hear of them.

Raneiere said in a recording last week, “I can’t think of anything else to say, but remember these things have to move quickly because, you know, I get designated soon – and then I’ll be out of here. And that’s a dangerous situation for me,” the blog said.

Raniere echoed that same sentiment in a recording from Nov. 21.

Prior to his Oct. 27 sentencing, Raniere said in a recording from April, “Yeah, I’m looking, you know, I’ll be in here the rest of my life if we don’t do something.

Raniere previously requested to be placed in a protective unit because of his high-profile case in which he branded women and forced them to sleep with him.

A judge has since declined to intervene directing Raniere’s lawyers to take the issue up with the Bureau of Prisons.

Raniere was convicted in June 2019 of sex trafficking, racketeering, child pornography and forced labor.

 

[The Bobster]

https://nypost.com/2021/07/28/nxivm-slave-master-lauren-salzman-gets-time-served/

Nxivm ‘slave master’ Lauren Salzman gets time served for role in cult
By Elizabeth Rosner and Tamar Lapin
July 28, 2021 | 1:35pm | Updated

Former Nxivm “slave master” (((Lauren Salzman))) — who admitted to keeping a woman captive for nearly two years during her stint as a high-ranking member in the upstate sex cult — dodged jail time at her sentencing on Wednesday.

Brooklyn federal nigger-loving judge Nicholas Garaufis gave Salzman credit for time she’s served under house arrest, as well as five years probation, noting that she had turned her life around.

The emotional sentencing capped a lengthy legal case that saw Salzman, who now works as a dog groomer, turn on longtime ally Keith Raniere and help put the twisted cult leader behind bars.

“It kills me that I hurt people that I loved so much,” a teary Salzman told the court.

The 45-year-old daughter of Nxivm co-founder Nancy Salzman had faced between seven and nine years in prison on racketeering conspiracy charges.

Lauren Salzman had faced between seven and nine years in prison on racketeering conspiracy charges.
Paul Martinka


But prosecutors asked Garaufis to go easy on her, citing her “extraordinary” cooperation and testimony at Raniere’s 2019 trial.

Salzman’s attorneys argued for no jail time, noting that she was the first co-defendant to spill the sadistic group’s secrets — and the only one to testify.

During her four days on the stand, Salzman detailed how she helped Raniere run a master-slave group within Nxivm called DOS, where women were branded with his initials and forced to sleep with him.

She described how the sick Svengali, with whom she had a 17-year relationship, was in the process of building a sex dungeon full of cages and BDSM equipment when he was arrested in 2018.

But the jurist was convinced Salzman was a changed woman, saying her new gig caring for animals “is about as different as participating in Nxivm than anything I can imagine.”

“This defendant has an inner sense of empathy and duty,” Garaufis added Wednesday, as he highlighted Salzman’s “extensive and sincere cooperation with the government.”

Salzman, along with former TV actress Allison "Gums" Mack and others, was part of 60-year-old Raniere’s circle of “first-line masters” who helped to command the group.

The ghoulish guru landed 120 years behind bars last year for his heinous crimes, and was recently ordered to pay his slew of victims nearly $3.5 million in restitution.

The leadership ring under Nxivm leader Keith Raniere.
Nxivm trial evidence


On Wednesday, Salzman apologized for keeping a woman named Daniela captive in a room from 2010 to 2012 at Raniere’s request and threatening to deport her to Mexico.

“I showed reprehensible judgment,” Salzman said. “I harmed Daniela … I completely failed her.”

The hearing included victim-impact statements from two former Nxivm members, including Ivy Nevares, who said Salzman never apologized for using “her position and skills to try to force me to accept my exploitation and to do so with a smile.”

“You called yourself my best friend, you were a fellow woman, yet you did what you did,” she said. “And you let Raniere and the others do what they did, even after I repeatedly begged you for help.”

Allison "Gums" Mack was sentenced to three years in prison last month.
Gregory P. Mango


The judge said that while Salzman had helped Raniere commit his “harmful schemes” and other “sadistic and sexual deviant visions,” she was also a “victim of [his] depravity.”

Salzman is the third of Raniere’s five co-defendants to be sentenced in the case.

Her mother Nancy Salzman, 66, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 8. She has said that she deeply regrets introducing her daughter to Nxivm and Raniere.

“Of all the regrettable things I have done with Keith and Nxivm, this by far is the one that gives me the greatest personal sadness,” she wrote to the judge. “I am responsible for Lauren being before you.”

Mack, 38, of “Smallville” fame, was sentenced to three years in prison last month, after prosecutors asked for leniency due to her cooperation. She had faced 14 to 17 1/2 years for working as Raniere’s right-hand woman to lure victims into DOS.

Seagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman was slapped with six years and nine months behind bars last year, more than prosecutors had asked for, after she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to conceal and harbor an illegal alien for financial gain and fraudulent use of identification.

Longtime Nxivm accountant Kathy Russell, who has copped to charges of visa fraud, still awaits sentencing.

 

[The Bobster]

Nxivm co-founder Nancy Salzman slapped with 3 years in prison

Nxivm’s co-founder Nancy Salzman was hit with a 3 1/2-year prison sentence Wednesday for her unwavering support of sex slave-branding cult leader Keith Raniere.

nypost.com

Nxivm co-founder Nancy Salzman slapped with 3 years in prison​

By
Jack Morphet and

Rebecca Rosenberg


September 8, 2021 2:14pm
Updated












Nxivm’s co-founder Nancy Salzman was hit with three and a half years in prison Wednesday for her unwavering support of sex cult leader Keith Raniere — and her vicious targeting of his enemies and critics.
Wearing a white blouse and black slacks, Salzman appeared in Brooklyn federal court and apologized for her senior role in the twisted group that drained its members of their cash and operated a secret sorority that groomed young women as sex slaves for Raniere.
But Salzman, 67, claimed she, too, was a victim of the sick Svengali, telling Judge Nicholas Garaufis she didn’t deserve to go to prison.
But the jurist rejected her plea for leniency.
“You were Mr. Raniere’s second-in-command and shared his power,” railed Garaufis. “You enabled and facilitated Mr. Raniere’s heinous crimes. In your 20 years at Nxivm, the door was always open but you never left.”
Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in prison.
Salzman won’t start serving her time until January 19 after undergoing an undisclosed medical procedure.
Prosecutors had lobbied for a prison term of more than three years, arguing that Salzman’s blind devotion to Raniere, 61, and the cruel actions she took as Nxivm’s former president helped him perpetrate his most depraved acts. But she dodged the maximum penalty of 51 months under federal sentencing guidelines.
Before Garaufis handed down his sentence, Raniere’s ex-girlfriend and an early member of the cult, Toni Natalie, delivered an emotional victim impact statement blasting Salzman as the guru’s “evil partner.”
After Natalie escaped the group and her abusive relationship with Raniere, she said she was terrorized by his followers for decades.
“It was you, Nancy, you who let the monster out,” Natalie seethed. “When Keith found you, he found his perfect match, his perfect evil partner. You knew early on of his attraction to young girls and with you by his side, look what he was able to do with so many of them.”
Raniere’s first sex slave, Camila, told the court in a quivering voice that she was just 15 when she was brought from Mexico to the upstate compound to become Salzman’s personal maid — forgoing a high school education.
Nancy Salzman (center with glasses) with members of Nxivm’s Vancouver Center in an evidence photo from Keith Raniere’s trail.
Soon after, Camila, still a virgin, was recruited into Nxivm’s clandestine sex ring known as DOS and repeatedly raped and tormented by Raniere, then 45.

“Nancy promoted all the twisted ideas her co-defendant [Raniere] used to groom and assault me, including the notion girls were capable of sex as soon as they were capable of conceiving,” said Camila, urging the judge to show no mercy to her abuser.
Salzman has maintained that she knew nothing about DOS — although her daughter and co-defendant Lauren Salzman was a “slave master” in the group. Young women — including Camila — were branded with Raniere’s initials and forced to have sex with him.
Slaves who displeased Raniere were starved, whipped and imprisoned.
Nancy Salzman, a former psychiatric nurse, co-founded the purported self-improvement and professional development organization with Raniere in the 1990s — and the two were briefly lovers.
Nxivm’s co-founder Nancy Salzman was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison on Sept. 8, 2021.Paul Martinka
She pleaded guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy for hacking into the emails of the group’s opponents and destroying evidence that could’ve been used against the Albany-based cult.
Salzman is the fourth of Raniere’s five co-defendants to be sentenced in the case.
After a sensational trial, Raniere was slapped with 120 years in prison for sex trafficking scores of young women and child pornography for taking nude photos of Camila and other crimes.
After cooperating with the government and testifying against the sadistic leader, Lauren Salzman got time-served.
Disgraced “Smallville” actress Allison Mack was hit with three years in prison for luring women into DOS.
Seagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman, who bankrolled the organization, got nearly seven years behind bars.
Meanwhile, longtime Nxivm accountant Kathy Russell pleaded guilty to visa fraud and is awaiting sentencing.

 

[The Bobster]

Nxivm slave master Allison Mack heads to federal prison 2 weeks early

Convicted “slave master” Allison Mack is already serving her time for her role in the Nxivm sex cult — checking into federal prison more than two weeks earlier than she needed to,…

pagesix.com

Nxivm slave master Allison Mack heads to federal prison 2 weeks early​

By Lee Brown


September 15, 2021 | 9:07am









Allison Mack, seen here walking out of court in 2018, checked into federal prison more than two week early

​

Convicted “slave master” Allison Mack is already serving her time for her role in the Nxivm sex cult — checking into federal prison more than two weeks earlier than she needed to, records show.
The disgraced former “Smallville” actress is listed in online records as inmate 90838-053 at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, California. Her release date is listed as “unknown.”
She checked in Monday, according to TMZ — even though she did not need to surrender until Sept. 29.
Mack had pleaded guilty to being the right-hand woman for perverted cult leader Keith Raniere, who was sentenced last October to 120 years in prison for turning numerous women into sex slaves who were then branded.
Mack had faced up to 17 1/2 years behind bars under federal sentencing guidelines — but in June got a wrist-slap sentence of three years having cooperated with investigators to bring down the twisted cult.
As part of her plea, she admitted to her role as a slave “master” in DOS — which translates to “dominant over submissive” — in which some members were branded like cattle with her and Raniere’s initials and blackmailed into having sex with him.
One of her victims, Jessica Joan, called Mack an “evil monster” ahead of her sentencing.
Before her sentencing, Mack called her devotion to Raniere and his celeb-packed cult “the biggest mistake and greatest regret of my life.”
She then tearfully told the court, how she has now “renounced” him and is “filled with remorse and guilt.”
“From the deepest part of my soul, I am sorry,” the former actress said as tears streamed down her cheeks.
Others also jailed over the cult include Seagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman.