Longtime Nxivm accountant Kathy Russell, who has copped to charges of visa fraud, still awaits sentencing. He told me if I stayed, he would reinvest in our relationship and we would have children, she said. "I believed Keith Raniere's intentions were to help people, and I was wrong," Mack told a judge while pleading guilty to racketeering charges. I just want to say thank you for this post. Alright? THE COURT: I took her guilty plea, sir. Q Keith had a child with Kristin Keefe; right? And if I made a mistake, then you will have your opportunity if you should not be successful in gaining your clients acquittal, and Im just going to leave it at that. Reading the direct transcripts is blowing my mind. Lauren Salzman reported to Raniere regarding Daniela's "progress," but Q So here you are, listening to Keith talk to these women about DOS and the creation of DOS, youre not there, and youre listening to these recordings; correct? She had faced 14 to 17 1/2 years for working as Ranieres right-hand woman to lure victims into DOS. She said it was hard to keep Raniere satisfied. The account of Ranieres arrest capped off the highly revealing direct testimony of Salzman, who has pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and racketeering conspiracy. I did not do that in my group [get Keith sex slaves]. Alas, Salzman still awaits her sentence a year later . Q What was your intention when you were in DOS? Lauren Salzman detailed the allegations in Brooklyn federal court, testifying that Keith Raniere had plans to build a sex dungeon in a home the group owned in Waterford, N.Y. They were making a dungeon in the basement. {"vloc":"auto","floating":true,"playlist":"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/feeds\/c132tQIF.json","ph":2} I suspect flipping Allison Mack was crucial to making the trial a waste of everyones time. It was the most painful thing I have ever experienced, she said. The proof is in the pudding. We were supposed to be uniform: All looking the same, and fully frontally naked, Salzman testified. Crime News is your destination for true crime stories from around the world, breaking crime news, and information about Oxygen's original true crime shows and documentaries. Thank you!!! If our legs werent spread enough, wed have to spread our legs more, Salzman said, adding that the group members were aware that his preferences skewed toward up-close vaginal pictures., Many DOS slaves were told to participate in various forms of self-denial, such as refraining from masturbation and limiting themselves to 1,500-calorie diets. There would be a cage for the people who were most committed to growth,'' Salzman testified. 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. THE COURT: If you want to know, you went way over the line as far as Im concerned with regard to this witness. Specifically interested in the days that Lauren Salzman was testifying, but would also like to skim through the entire trial. Q . The branding ceremony took place in 2017 inside a house near Albany, where female members of the so-called cult Nxivm . I wanted to put the available transcripts from Keith Raniere's trial all in one place, for my own organizational purposes. The jury was dismissed. To get a PACER account requires you to put up a credit card. Selected Courts Q So the Government plays these recordings for you; right? how old was jan stenerud when he retired. I stayed with Keith despite all the other [sexual] relationships, and that was something that he could have been honest with me about, and mischaracterizing and making me feel sorry for him because his life is so hard because we lost our friends and I cant get my shit together is not what was going on. She was applying the principles that were taught to her in NXIVM. This organization is nuts. We were running out of ideas as to what to do Salzman said, according to the New York Post. She has described, both in her court testimony and in the HBO documentary The Vow, the emotional. HOWEVER, it costs: you need to get a PACER account and pay the per page or document cost for each document you download (transcript or otherwise). The daughter of group cofounder Nancy Salzman, who has pleaded guilty to a single charge of racketeering conspiracy, Salzman, 42, began her testimony last week describing her first meeting with Raniere in 1998, when she was 21 years old. Sorry if this was asked already. And also I mean, I knew it because when I joined DOS there was something that had been created over a period of time that seemed pretty extensive. May 7, 2019: first day of the trial; includes opening statements (Tanya Hajjar for the prosecution, Marc Agnifilo for the defense) and the beginning of the first witness testimony, by Sylvie [last name redacted by order of the court], a DOS "slave" under Monica Duran, May 8, 2019: continuation of Sylvie's testimony; start of Mark Vicente's testimony, May 9, 2019: Mark Vicente testimony, continued, May 13, 2019: Mark Vicente testimony, continued, May 14, 2019: no witnesses, just proceedings, May 15, 2019: Mark Vicente testimony, continued, May 16, 2019: Mark Vicente, Stephen Herbits, Charles Fontanelli, May 17, 2019: Charles Fontanelli, Sean Welch, Lauren Salzman, May 28, 2019: Daniela [last name redacted], May 29, 2019: Daniela [last name redacted], continued, June 5, 2019: James Loperfido, Maegan Rees, June 6, 2019: Maegan Rees continued, Dawn Hughes, Nicole [last name redacted], June 7, 2019: Nicole [last name redacted], continued. Marc Agnifilo is continuing his cross-examination of Lauren Salzman. You made your points. This story has been shared 114,023 times. Dani in that room actually made clear something I hadn't realized that she was actually free to leave I'd she just copped to her shit Q But you know that now because the Government gave you the recordings to listen to of the meetings that you werent in? [Lauren is growing visibly upset and is crying]. And I think DOS took the place of that, in large part, because now you have slaves going out specifically looking for sexual relationships and personal relationships for Keith. Judge, can we have a sidebar? When she finally left in February 2012, she was driven to the Mexican border by her father and another NXIVM member, who refused to give her immigration papers; in a series of emails read during the trial, when she begged for her papers back, NXIVM officials refused, accusing her of being manipulative and playing games., Of all the things I did in this case and all the crimes that were committed, this was the worst thing I did, she said, sobbing. Actually it sounds like Lauren was really being ethical and was waking up to what that really means. Q Was it hard to listen to the conversations? She was more and more upset. As a sex cult "grandmaster," Keith Raniere oversaw dungeon paddlings, brandings and naked meetings but his most brutal form of punishment was emotional manipulation, said former slave Lauren Salzman. THE COURT: We have been through this. Theyll testify again. I havent read through all of them, but out of what I read I found Lauren Salzmans the most heartbreakingand most illuminating. And you betrayed us. DOS members were also required to do penance for perceived misdeeds. Agnifilo referred audiotapes [and transcripts of the tapes] of meetings held for DOS in 2016 before Lauren joined DOS. the appeal will be successful and Keith will be free.. This is a broken person, as far as I can tell. Despite the negative media attention swarming around the group, the understanding among DOS members was that they would participate in a recommitment ceremony, pledging their allegiance to Raniere which, as Salzman later testified, was assumed to mean group sex. Camila and Lauren Salzman were two of these recruiters, as was Smallville actress Allison Mack, who served as Raniere's right hand in DOS. Raniere was furious, saying he questioned whether he wanted to have a child with someone who could be so disrespectful to him. It kills me that I hurt people that I loved so much, a teary Salzman told the court. For years, Raniere continued to hold the prospect of having a child with Salzman over her head, at one point giving her a timeline of between a year and five years. He revoked the option, however, after Salzman committed an ethical breach, jumping on a another man while celebrating a victory after a volleyball game. The organization is commonly called a "cult," and has been termed a "racketeering enterprise" by the U.S. government. Our legal system gaurantees the right to a trial by jury, but when there is a recording of your confession, why bother? Q And she just left like one day. Lauren Salzman, a "first-line master" within DOS, testified that there were five stages of recruitment. If you read through the transcript, news articles and asked anyone at the closing arguments, your Vanturd is guilty without Salzmans testimony. Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. Everyone rises for the jury. Q Did you know he was having these kinds of conversations with these women? Thats not how it works. A I dont recall. He thought it would be a growth experience for them, Salzman testified. His work to expose and take down NXIVM is featured in books like Captive by Catherine Oxenberg, Scarred by Sarah Edmonson, The Program by Toni Natalie, and NXIVM. A My intention was to prove to Keith that I was not so far below the ethical standard that he holds that I was I dont even know how far below I am. Thanks so much for doing this!!! [] he halted her cross-examination at the Raniere trial because she was sobbing on the stand. 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. C-SPAN's operating revenues come from license fees paid by cable systems and satellite companies that offer the network to their. A I took collateral from people who were afraid to not give it to me, because I already had their collateral, and they were calling it extortion at the time and I even discussed it with Keith and he was, like, its not extortion, they agreed to it. Raniere had fled to Mexico the year before, following a. that he was the grandmaster of DOS, a NXIVM offshoot and secret all-female sorority of masters and slaves. Allegedly run by Raniere, the group reportedly had branded women, forced them to provide collateral in the form of explicit naked photos, and coerced them into having sex with him. Move on. At one point, Raniere asked Danis mother, Adriana, to stay confined to a room adjacent to Danis, as a way to make it clear to Daniela that her actions were affecting other people close to her, Salzman testified. Q And these are meetings between Keith, Monica Duran, Dani Padilla, and Loreta Garza, right? I am the one who is disappointed. Q you were still holding out hope, as of June 2016 when these conversations [2016] are taking place [with the other first-line DOS slaves] these meetings between Keith and these other women, [at this time] you are still holding out hope that you might end up with Keith? Lauren Salzman, a former high-ranking member of Nxivm who pleaded guilty to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy charges and testified against founder Keith Raniere at his 2019 trial, will. It did not seem like the line of questioning was interrupted at all. Not only is . But it was too late- the defense had rested. I committed to stay with nothing. Salzman obviously did. A The conversations sound different to me now than they did before and so I dont hear them the same way and thats difficult. The Government didnt teach me that. Contact Frank with tips or for help. Among the more sensational allegations: Some women "slaves" in a secret NXIVM sorority were branded with Raniere's initials as part of their initiation. Of course, that was a traumatic experience. Wow where to start with all these?! I am not trying to argue with you. The messages also revealed that Camila was 15 when . You lost everything Lauren. This failure, combined with his on the record statement that he was done, will seriously hamper any appeal. And not in my courtroom. Others were threatened with the release of their collateral - nude photos and other embarrassing material that female members turned over to their "masters" to ensure obedience and silence - if they didn't have unwanted sex with him. Such penance including paddlings with a leather strap, which Raniere would occasionally supervise remotely via conference call. According to NXIVM senior member Lauren Salzman, at the start of NXIVM meetings, the women described as "slaves" offered a tribute to Raniere. Her mother Nancy Salzman, 66, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 8. September 7, 2020 by Stacey Nguyen. Isnt the world better off without a Ratchild? . Agnifilos approach of what did you think at the time was a loser from the git-go. Q And with the exception of Rosa Laura, Keith slept with all of those women? Instead of delaying the trial until the next day. I think Pam facilitated a number of Keiths personal and romantic relationships and kept them alive throughout the years. Lauren Salzman, Nxivm cult member who secretly pleaded guilty last week Salzman's guilty plea last Monday did not appear on any public calendar, and portions of the transcript are. ); We want to hear it. The line of questioning was not relevant for reasons Scott Johnson stated. pmc_jwplayer('jwplayer_c132tQIF_yTTJs9q5_div','yTTJs9q5').setup( Raniere has pleaded not guilty to sex-trafficking and other charges. Q Right. Numskull. Salzman said Ranierehad sex with seven of the eight members of the top inner circle, known as DOS an acronym for a Latin phrase roughly translated as "Lord/master of obedient women." Salzman, a former . THE COURT: So you can sit down. When she finally left in February 2012, she was driven to the Mexican border by her father and another NXIVM member, who refused to give her immigration papers; in a series of emails read during the trial, when she begged for her papers back, NXIVM officials refused, accusing her of being manipulative and playing games., Salzmans account of how the group treated Dani was one of the most emotional aspects of her testimony. Q You didnt know that Keith and Cami had a relationship? In response, Salzman sent him a seven-page letter recounting all the ways she was behaving inappropriately. This is not the allegations. The feds will try him again, but he may not have the benefit of the Seagrams millions to help with his defense. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. Salzman, the daughter of NXIVM. there is going to be the part of DOS that other people know and then theres going to be this other secret sex part of DOS where were going to get slaves to pleasure us that was not what I signed up for. She did so in March 2019, admitting to one count of racketeering. A I just listened to these recordings the day before yesterday for the first time. Cookie Notice The fact that Keith is off with these women doing anything, in this case creating DOS, you didnt know that he was there? Court Reporter/Transcriber TypeWrite Word Processing Service, Telephone number 518-581-8973. Knowledge of the group became widespread in late 2017, after the New York Times published its DOS expose featuring an interview and photographs of Edmonson displaying her brand. Garaufis terminated the cross-examination of the most important witness and denied the defendant his right to cross-examine witnesses against him. All right? God, do l ever loathe Keith. I set up an account on PACER and gave them my credit card info (yikes). Two cages had already been ordered for the dungeon, according to the New York Post. THE COURT: Anything else from the defense? I was trying to prove my self-worth, and salvage this string of a hope of what I thought my relationship might someday be, and I put it above everything else; I put it above my friends and I put it above other people, helping them in their best interest. Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! At that time, sheadmitted keeping a slave locked in a room for more than two years. Lauren Salzman was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court to time served and ordered her to perform 300 hours of community service Credit: AP 4 She was a former member of NXIVM leader Keith Raniere's inner circle Prosecutors noted her "credible, detailed" testimony against her ex Raniere at his 2019 trial as reason for leniency. I was beginning to realize that I was looking forward to the end of January like my sons awaiting a Star Wars movie, and that I might be in for disappointment, is there another place to access these? Salzman is a former high-ranking member of NXIVM and former partner and confidante of Raniere. Its possible that the judge made a mistake that another judge will find to be so egregious that Keith was denied his right to cross-examine witnesses against him. Q And one thats one of the things that you went through; right? I have to sentence this defendant and what you did was, basically, ask her to make legal judgments about whether what she did in pleading guilty was farcical that she took somebody elses advice, some lawyer, so she could get out from under a trial. 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. She testifiedthe DOS would take naked photos before every meeting. At times she approached tears and spoke sometimes in a shaky voice. 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. She avoided looking at Raniere during her testimony. Sounds like she is finding the true meaning of ethics- a guilty conscience. So thats like just one example. And then he characterized the reasons for why he didnt uphold his word to me as being because it was so difficult that two of our best friends died of terminal illnesses [Pam Cafritz and Barbara Jeske] and the void that that left in our community, and how much extra work fell on him and how hard its been because of all of our failures and ineptitudes and the political situation. I thought she made it very clear she gave a very reasonable and lucid statement, I think its in Part 5 of the transcriptabout why she decided to plead guilty. She has said that she deeply regrets introducing her daughter to Nxivm and Raniere. When the police showed up, I was in one mode: protect Keith, Salzman testified on Tuesday at the Brooklyn federal courthouse where Raniere is currently standing trial. I Was in One Mode: Protect Keith: NXIVM Member Testifies About Naked Meetings, Group Sex, Dungeon Paddlings, People Are Getting Pregnant on TikToks Trendy On-Demand Birth Control, Netflixs Perfect Match Is Horny, Utterly Ridiculous Fun, She Built a Following as Taylor Swifts Doppelgnger. I showed reprehensible judgment, Salzman said. He simply didnt have much to work with. He is manically writing messages to Agnifilo on yellow Post-It Notes and having Teny Geragos deliver them to the podium where Agnifilo is standing while he questions Lauren. You could have gone on to something else. A No. I knew that before. Q I think you said on direct examination that you thought Keith changed when Pam passed away? When I tried to cut off the line of questioning, you just went right back to the line of questioning. During her testimony at Raniere's trial, she. Q And you always were concerned that Keith held Cami in sort of a special place in his heart? She has been on the stand for hours. Seagrams 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. He is in every sense a hypocrite. Lauren Salzman entered her plea at a hearing that did not appear on any public calendar, and prosecutors had portions of a transcript blacked out. And before Im a judge, Im a human being. Thats what I did when I was in DOS. Salzman testified that being locked in a cage for days until surrendering was supposed to be a way for the most committed members to grow. "He told me Dani was brilliant," Salzman tells producers, explaining how the then-16-year-old's parents trusted Raniere as a "guru" and signed her up for a so-called intensive in the States. Q Youve been through a lot for Keith; right? Salacious Allegations Emerge In NXIVM Sex Cult Trial. A I knew they had a relationship. Next question. In 2017, Salzman became even deeper in Ranieres thrall when she was recruited to the secret all-female organization by Rosalaura Junco, a NXIVM member and the daughter of a wealthy Mexican media scion. AGNIFILO: I dont think she did. Nonetheless, she continued to follow Ranieres orders to not allow Dani to have access to her papers, on the grounds that she wanted him to think she was willing to do what it took to be a responsible parent., planned to build a dungeon in the basement of the sorority house. 80% . Allowed herself to be both vulnerable and strong. At one point, as former NXIVM member Lauren Salzman testified earlier in the trial, she passed a note to Salzman and Raniere, which read, "Let me out, I've come undone." Raniere is currently. Lauren is sobbing uncontrollably by the time she finished her answer. On October 27, 2020, Raniere was found guilty of all counts against him racketeering, sex trafficking, forced labor conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy and he was sentenced to 120 years in. Steve's work features mainly in the chapter MK-ULTRA in Australia. Raniere, 58, is accused of founding and running NXIVM, which framed itself as a self-help group but which prosecutors say was really a cult-like organization that coerced female members into sexual fealty to Raniere. All the links come from the docket, available at Court Listener: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/6374665/united-states-v-raniere. Just trusting and loyal to someone who was gifted at manipulation. In response to the bad press surrounding NXIVM, Raniere went into damage control mode. Among the. Also, as far as proving that Lauren Salzman didnt really think she was guilty of anything-(which is what Agnifilo seemed to be trying to prove). Pea!! Master, please brand me, it would be an honor, an honor I want to wear for the rest of my life," Lauren Salzman testifed she told Keith Raniere at a branding ceremony. As part of this protracted litigation, that dragged on for more than a decade, Raniere and his sidekick Salzman, were deposed for hours under oath. President (To Win Colorado) (D) Joe Biden* (R) Donald Trump. She had been on the floor and he had kicked her, Salzman recounted Padilla telling her. I lied to everybody. They were then whipped and paddled with a spiked sex toy, she claimed. The statement, which was read at trial, accused the media of shaming the women for engaging in consensual activities and spearheading a campaign against the rights of women and alternative lifestyles. At one point in the email, Raniere compared DOS members to authors of the Declaration of Independence. She doesnt want a child with KAR, who cant even keep it up enough to even shoot blanks LOL. Q You didnt know the specifics of the conversations because you werent there; right? Salzman is the third of Ranieres five co-defendants to be sentenced in the case. Per federal transcripts, Mack told prosecutors . THE COURT: Asked and answered. We were taking naked pictures up-close vagina pictures three times a week. C-SPAN is a private, non-profit public service of the cable television industry that covers the political process. Part 1: Lauren Salzman: Cross Examination Stopped by Judge: Women of Raniere and Laurens Acceptance of Them, Part 2: Lauren Salzman Cross Examination Stopped by Judge: Lauren Asked If She Was an Adult, Part 3: Lauren Salzman Cross Examination Stopped by Judge: Laurens Pain Over Not Having Child, Part 4: Lauren Salzman: Cross Examination Stopped by Judge: Branding Was Supposed to Be a Sisterly Bonding Experience, Part 5: Lauren Salzman: Cross-Examination Stopped by Judge: I felt I needed Keith 100 Percent. And we saw that coming, I dont think [Kristin leaving] was suddenly. Lauren Salzman detailed the allegations in Brooklyn federal court, testifying that Keith Raniere had plans to build a sex dungeon in a home the group owned in Waterford, N.Y. "They were making a dungeon in the basement. The daughter of group cofounder Nancy Salzman, who has pleaded guilty to a single charge of racketeering conspiracy, Salzman, 42, began her testimony last week describing her first meeting. THE COURT: All right, the witness is excused. But most of my first-line DOS masters were telling me things that were gravely concerning to me that they were doing. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. I hope he is abjectly miserable right now. I didnt want to sit at the defense table and tell a false story about what happened. Sir, I have a right and an obligation to control the extent to which something like this is put to a witness and you had that opportunity. The one who was not applying them was the man who made them up Keith Raniere. And he exited the courtroom. Salzman testified that shortly after she joined DOS, she discovered that everyone except Junco had previously been or was currently in a sexual relationship with Raniere. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time AGNIFILO: Your Honor, most respectfully and I am not going to belabor the point I think it is an important she talked about the change in perspective, she did, and Im trying to explore that change. Im asking about what you know, what you know based on what you saw and what you saw other people doing with your own senses, eyewitness-type stuff; you didnt see any of that? According to her testimony which has so far taken three days when police arrived at the home where Raniere was staying, he was taking a nap in an upstairs bedroom, so she ran up to try to help him escape. Raniere had also planned to build a dungeon in the basement of the sorority house, and Padilla purchased various BDSM sex toys for use during penance, as a sex-toy company owner testified last week. Raniere wanted this testimony forever suppressed and sealed so that no one would ever know what he and Salzman had admitted or lied about under oath. Sex Toy Testimony at NXIVM Trial Raises Questions About Kink and Consent No relationship, no baby. Privacy Policy. Q When you were in DOS before anybody was arrested, were you doing things intentionally to break the law? As NXIVM membership rates dwindled, Salzman stuck to the narrative that Raniere was unconnected to DOS and had no knowledge of the group. Keith will be acquitted? 20% In March 2018, Lauren Salzman, a high-ranking member in the self-empowerment organization NXIVM and a so-called master in the alleged sex cult DOS, was making a smoothie in the kitchen of a house outside Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, when her friend Loreta Garza, another NXIVM member, burst into the room. The Version table provides details related to the release that this issue/RFE will be addressed. Salzman spent four days on the witness stand during Raniere's 2019 trial, testifying about the group's inner workings, Raniere's involvement, and her own failed attempts to leave the group. There would be a cage for the people who were most committed to growth, Salzman testified. since her testimony, Salzman has become a . Salzmans attorneys argued for no jail time, noting that she was the first co-defendant to spill the sadistic groups secrets and the only one to testify. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. I knowingly and intentionally harbored Jane Doe 4, a woman whose identity is known to me, in a room in the home in the Northern District of New York, Salzman testified earlier in the spring, according to unsealed court transcripts quotedby the New York Post.
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