Examiners: Notorious NY 'Self improvement' Guru Calls Sex Slave Scheme 'Respectable'
Interchanges from prison show the pioneer of a clique such as personal growth bunch in upstate New York has no regret over his conviction a year ago on charges he transformed a portion of his devotees into sex slaves, in any event, calling his scheme "honorable," examiners said Friday in court papers.
The papers recorded in government court in Brooklyn request that an appointed authority give Keith Raniere a sentence of life in jail at a condemning in the not so distant future, to a limited extent for demonstrating "a total absence of acknowledgment of duty regarding his violations." They state Raniere has kept in contact with individuals from his NXIVM association since his conviction on sex-dealing charges a year ago, giving himself in messages a role as a casualty and urging them to keep the gathering alive.
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"This circumstance has been an absolutely political, envy driven, cash fueled lie to decimate a network, and keep me either imprisoned forever or in any case 'discarded,'" investigators state Raniere wrote in one message.
The jury saw Keith Raneire as blameworthy on all charges in less than five hours. The pioneer of the notorious NXIVM sex clique could now confront life in jail. NBC 4 New York's Ray Villeda reports.
In an email to entertainer Nicki Clyne, Raniere protected his development of a mystery sorority that investigators said was contained conditioned female "slaves" who were marked with his initials and compelled to have intercourse with him.
"I accept the sorority is acceptable - acceptable and even respectable, however extraordinary - and fundamentally significant for ladies and humankind," he composed. "The missing piece of our general public, found in a mystery gathering of ladies like this, yearns to be grasped; we should profoundly grieve its conceivable misfortune."
The respondent likewise coordinated his supporters start a webcast to advance a challenge asking individuals "to discover implied blunders in Raniere's arraignment and preliminary in return for a money prize," the papers state.
In an announcement, protection lawyer Marc Agnifilo said Friday that his customer "keeps up his blamelessness he despite everything has confidence in his lessons."
The beneficiary to the Seagram's alcohol fortune has conceded to two accuses in association of the affirmed NXIVM sex-dealing faction case. Michael George reports.
At preliminary, investigators told hearers the 60-year-old Raniere's association, NXIVM — articulated NEHK-see-uhm — worked like a clique that won him the commitment of an affluent beneficiary and Hollywood entertainers.
His followers included entertainer Allison Mack of TV's "Smallville"; a beneficiary to the Seagram's alcohol fortune, Clare Bronfman; and a girl of TV star Catherine Oxenberg of "Tradition" acclaim. The two ladies have conceded to helping the trick and are anticipating condemning.
Specialists recognized Clyne, who showed up on the "Battlestar Galactica" TV arrangement, as a sex slave selection representative for Raniere yet never accused her of a wrongdoing. On an ongoing online media video giving her moving external the prison holding Raniere, she demanded she was "never part of a sex faction."