NXIVM's founder Keith Raniere found guilty of all charges
of numerous charges related to his role as the founder and leader of NXIVM, the ostensible self-help company that was actually a cult.
Raniere was found guilty on seven counts, including racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy, forced labor conspiracy, sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and attempted sex trafficking. Though he didn’t testify in the case, Raniere’s attorney argued that his relationships with his followers consensual.
“Raniere, who portrayed himself as a savant and a genius, was in fact, a master manipulator, a con man and the crime boss of a cult-like organization involved in sex trafficking, child pornography, extortion, compelled abortions, branding, degradation and humiliation,” Donoghue added.Raniere’s guilty verdict marks the closing of at least one chapter of the sprawling NXIVM case, which is bizarre, scary and sad all at once.
Raniere will be sentenced on September 25, and faces life in prison. Nancy Salzman, president of NXIVM, has a sentencing hearing
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