A lot more than two several years considering that his arrest, Keith Raniere has realized his fate.
The leader of the purported own growth business, NXIVM, was sentenced to 120 decades in prison on Tuesday, Oct. 27, just days following a federal choose denied his second request for a new demo.
In June 2019, a jury in a Brooklyn federal courtroom uncovered Raniere responsible of all counts, which includes racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud conspiracy, pressured labor conspiracy, sex trafficking, intercourse trafficking conspiracy and tried sexual intercourse trafficking. The jury also discovered that the governing administration proved all charged racketeering functions. Raniere, who had pleaded not responsible in the case, did not testify in the class of the trial nor did his protection lawyer get in touch with any witnesses.
During the sentencing listening to, Raniere did listen to from ladies who shipped victim impact statements before his sentence was introduced. Amid them was longtime NXIVM member India Oxenberg, whose actress mother Catherine Oxenberg rang community alarms about how India experienced been “sucked” into NXIVM. Oxenberg came forward and claimed the now-29-yr-previous had been recruited as a member of DOS—the magic formula hierarchical culture of woman masters and slaves inside NXIVM where ladies have been branded and necessary to regularly post “collateral” to be associates, in accordance to prosecutors. Although Raniere headed the modern society, that was saved from recruits. India has explained she was launched to DOS by fellow NXIVM member and former Smallville actress Allison Mack, who was India’s “grasp.”
“It was a entice,” India said in an October interview with ABC Information. “And it was a ploy for Keith to enslave women of all ages for his very own sexual needs.”
