The jury not only convicted Raniere of every count but every underlying act of racketeering. He is looking at life in prison at his sentencing on Sept. 25.
#NXIVM
*****BREAKING NEWS: NXIVM leader Keith Raniere guilty of all counts, racketeering, sex trafficking. Catherine Oxenberg, whose daughter was in "master/slave" group, says while in tears that she's "speechless," adds, "I'm so grateful. Justice is finally here. I'm so damn grateful."
Witness in
#NXIVMTrial
said Keith Raniere impregnated her and her two sisters -- her older sister twice -- and later told her it was a "great opportunity to lose weight."
"He said there were Olympic athletes who for abortions for training," the woman testified.
#NXIVM
"Often when you counsel people who were, say, children of what you call abuse ... some little children are perfectly happy with it until they find out what happened later in life and then it's more society that abuses them...."
#NXIVM
#NXIVMTrial
Natalie told Raniere he was lazy and said he borrowed language from the Church of Scientology.
"There is nothing original about you," Natalie said. "You need to be locked away the way they locked away Charles Manson.โ
#NXIVM
Iโm thrilled and very thankful to the
@nynewspapers
, the judges and my fellow award-winners, including those honored and all of my colleagues at the
@timesunion
for their hard work every day.
Thank you!!
Jay, like other DOS "slaves," was required to take part in "readiness" drills. At any point in the day she could receive an encrypted text message asking her to respond in 60 seconds to "master." If she failed to respond in that time, she/other "slaves" would be punished.
#NXIVM
Not everyone was allowed such a sweet tooth. She said women in DOS were ordered to adhere to 500-calorie-a-day diets, which for some women interrupted their menstrual cycles and caused hair loss. As punishment for a supposed breach, she needed to ask permission to eat.
#NXIVM
Via
@Brendan_LyonsTU
&
@therealjsolo
โ Cuomo, angered that his State Police driver had become lost as they drove in (NYC), ordered that the trooper pull over and get out of the SUV โฆ the detail commander, climbed into the driver's seat and pulled away โ
The witness said her tourist visa and her father's visa were taken in Atlanta in October 2004. She went back to Mexico, she said, and Raniere arranged for her to fly to Canada and get picked up on Christmas Eve and taken to Albany. But the plan had problems.
#NXIVM
#NXIVMTrial
Former
#NXIVM
members Mark Vicente and his wife, Bonnie Piesse, speak to reporters outside U.S. District Court in Brooklyn after the conviction of Keith Raniere. Vicente referred to NXIVM as "evil" during his testimony last month.
The 29-year-old actress from Los Angeles was surprised she received a "very unusual" amount of time with Raniere after she joined
#NXIVM
.
"My understanding now is that I was being groomed to be part of his harem," she testified.
via
@timesunion
Natalie, a former girlfriend of Raniere in the years before his
#NXIVM
reign and who suffered years of lawsuits from the purported self-improvement guru, said she wore a jail inmate striped shirt for the occasion.
Former
#NXIVM
senior member and former Raniere girlfriend Barbara Bouchey is jubilant outside U.S. District Court after the guilty verdict on all counts in
#NXIVMTrial
NXIVM literature stated: "If someone comes from a country where adults orally stimulate children and they find out, according to American culture they have been abused. Have they?"
"Who did the abusing? The abuser is our culture. Our society."
#NXIVM
#NXIVMTrial
โFor the 165-year-old newspaper rooted in a county with fewer residents than Staten Island, the Cuomo scandal is a rare moment of wider attention.โ
Great story
@nytimes
but as a heads up, Staten Island (475,000 pop.) isnโt exactly sparse. And the
@timesunion
exposed
#NXIVM
.
Rensselaer County Executive Steven McLaughlin says โRensselaer County is open for businessโ and he is he done playing โgamesโ and will allow all businesses โ except for hair and nail salons โ to open. Says he will not keep businesses from opening.
โEnough. Done.... Go for it.โ
When trial resumes, a 31-year-old actress and former DOS "slave" will still be on the witness stand. Her direct testimony is continuing.
#NXIVMTrial
#NXIVM
A Chicago-area judge was caught making an insulting remark about Brooklyn attorney
@jenniferbonjean
who represented Bill Cosby and for a period of time was handling the criminal appeal for
#NXIVM
leader Keith Raniere.
โNo one has a legitimate interest in having the identities of sex crime victims revealed, especially in this manner threatened hereโฆโ
Neil Glazer, attorney for plaintiffs suing Raniere.
via
@TimesUnion
Upcoming sentencings for
#NXIVM
president Nancy Salzman (July 10), Seagram's heiress and NXIVM director of operations Clare Bronfman (July 25) and NXIVM bookkeeper Kathy Russell (July 31) have all been adjourned with no new dates set, court filings show.
On witness stand, former NXIVM senior member Mark Vicente broke down crying and said of the self-help group: "It's a fraud. It's a Iie. It's this well-intended veneer that covers horrible, incredible evil."
#NXIVM
#NxivmTrial
Lead prosecutor from trial of
#NXIVM
leader Keith Raniere says teenagers in Mormon community that suffered massacre on Monday were previously recruited and in some cases โexposed to pedophilic and misogynistic teachings, and, I believe, being groomed to have sex with Raniere.โ
And here's where it just got straight-up weird:
Me: โWhat parts of it are not public?โ
Colonie Court Clerk: โThat would be up to you.โ
Me: โWait a minute. It's up to me to determine what parts of a file I canโt see arenโt public?โ
Clerk: โCorrect.โ
Andrew Cuomo, a politician for essentially his entire adult life and the son of a governor, is trying to paint himself as a political outsider.
"Part of this is I'm not part of the political club, and you know what? I'm proud of it," Cuomo said.
Former
#NXIVM
member Barbara Bouchey following the sentencing of Clare Bronfman in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn. Former member Susan Dones is off to the side.
โWhen I heard him say 81 months, I was speechless,โ Bouchey said, calling it justice served.
Retired agent guarded the Unabomberโs mother, apprehended a notorious bank robber and sifted through evidence following the explosion of Flight 800 off Long Island.
She also helped solve the mystery of a familyโs painting stolen by the Nazi regime in 1933.
Signs the holidays are upon us: the return of the obnoxious โI love itโ commercial featuring the most materialistic fictional couple on TV and their two giant new trucks.
@amandaknox
As an FYI, you signed a petition on behalf of someone convicted of racketeering with underlying acts that included possession of child pornography and child exploitation, who is on video saying children are โperfectly happyโ having sex with adults.
What was that about porn again?
Prosecutors are close to resting their case against Keith Raniere but first have shown
#NXIVM
literature stating that women have reported an "unexpected experience of freedom, which occurs during rape."
#NXIVM
#NXIVMTrial
A congressional candidate tweeted that ANTIFA was bussing people into Albany. When asked to state the evidence of ANTIFA involvement,
@LizLemeryJoy
repeatedly dodged the question โ and tried to make it about the reporter asking the question.
Whereโs the evidence?
LoL. Youโre Criminal Justice reporter
@timesunion
๐ Youโve done๐ซreporting on riots. You havenโt talked to Albany Police Union. You havenโt gone & covered riots & I know more than you do, b/c I take time to talk, support, listen to Albany Police. Maybe I shld apply for your job?
I believe I just heard
@jaketapper
say former President Donald Trump listed as 6-3 and โฆ.. 215 pounds?
For what itโs worth, Baltimore Ravens QB Lamar Jackson, one of the most electrifying athletes in pro sports, is 6-2 and 215 pounds.
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I sat down w/ Albany Police Union President Greg McGee today, after
@timesunion
@RobertGavinTU
@CaseySeiler
all came after me on Twitter demanding proof of ANTIFA.Sad
@timesunion
wonโt support Law Enforcement! Thank you Albany Police! I support you(See FB page for full video)๐บ๐ธ
After his exit, now-retired Acting Albany Police Chief Robert Sears told reporters he gave the job his all every day, adding, "I got way more out of the job than it got out of me... I loved being an Albany cop and I will always be an Albany cop no matter what."
****BREAKING NEWS: Allison Mack sentenced to 3 years in prison, fined $20,000 for crimes in NXIVM. Former โslaveโ slams her as a โmonsterโ and compares her to Ghislane Maxwell.
A former
#NXIVM
student from Mexico who said she was confined to a room in a Halfmoon home for nearly two years is testifying about her experiences with Raniere -- including his efforts for her to have sex with multiple partners, including him and her older sister.
#NXIVMTrial
NXIVM president Nancy Salzman agreed to forfeit more than $515,000 seized from her Halfmoon home, a Steinway piano and two properties she owned in the nearby complex of Knox Woods, including this former "executive library" on Hale Drive.
Hereโs a question: Has there been another time since
@RepStefanik
was elected to office that the congresswoman publicly released a statement or tweet saying she stood by a defendant charged with multiple felonies?
Has she for any defendant charged in her district?
#Asking
President Donald Trump doesnโt appear any closer yet to accepting the clear truth: That he has lost the 2020 presidential election to Joe Biden.
#Election2020
*******BREAKING NEWS:
The
#Yankees
have a TWO-GAME WINNING STREAK!
This is the hottest they have been in months. They have clinched a non-losing series vs the
#Tigers
.
Wow!
*******BREAKING NEWS: Alain Kaloyeros and all three codefendants have been convicted of all charges in the "Buffalo Billion" bid-rigging trial. Kaloyeros attorney Michael Miller says he's "absolutely heartsick." Steve Coffey, attorney for Aiello, said, "We're devastated."
Law Beat has learned that
@SenSchumer
will recommend Colonie attorney Anne Nardacci, a commercial litigator who once worked for Rep. Michael McNulty, to fill a seat on the federal bench in Albany vacant since Jan. 1, 2016.
via
@TimesUnion
Indictment announced by
@SDNYnews
today said Ghislaine Maxwell "assisted, facilitated, and contributed" to Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of minor girls and helped him "recruit, groom, and ultimately abuse" victims as young as 14.
Salzman, 67, of Halfmoon, who spent two decades as
#NXIVM
leader Keith Raniere's second-in-command in the cult-like personal growth organization based in Colonie, is scheduled to begin her sentence at Alderson federal prison camp in West Virginia.
In
#NXIVM
, being โpridefulโ was scorned. But the defense memo repeatedly said Raniere ย โremains proudโ of many of his accomplishments in NXIVM โ and boasted that he made Mexico safer.
Something to read before watching tonightโs episode of
@TheVowHBO
In his victim impact statement yesterday, former
#NXIVM
member Mark Vicente told
#KeithRaniere
:
โFinding out the truth about you and your actual motives turned my world upside down. You broke goodness.โ
(Vicente and wife Bonnie Piesse after Raniere verdict on June 19, 2019).
โIt was a video game that we had in our garage.โ
Toni Natalie, former girlfriend of Keith Raniere, on the namesake for his moniker โVanguard,โ on this weekโs episode of
@TheVowHBO
(She never called him it as they broke up before his
#NXIVM
days).
This was the story Tuesday at
#NXIVMTrial
. After court, Raniere attorney Marc Agnifilo spoke to an HBO documentary film crew outside the federal courthouse in downtown Brooklyn.
#NXIVM
Keith Raniere on the age of sexual consent: "In some states it's 17, in other parts of the world it's 12...what's abuse in one area is not abuse in another."
#NXIVM
#NxivmTrial
Trial of Keith Raniere resumes at 9:30 am. The first witness, a 32-year-old woman who once was part of DOS "master/slave" group still on witness stand for direct testimony. Here is today's story on
#NXIVMTrial
:
Viewers of
#TheVowHBO
should know ex-
#NXIVM
prez Nancy Salzman pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges not related to
#DOS
or sex-trafficking but to that same company -- NXIVM/ESPโ she claimed she was using to make the world a better place for 20 years.
Hunter Biden is yet to be sentenced. And the U.S. attorney whose office investigated/prosecuted Hunter Biden was appointed by Donald Trump.
Can
@RepStefanik
explain why she believes Trump's handpicked US attorney is party to what she called "politicization and weaponization?"