Phone / Text: (305) 783-7083 Contact Frank with tips or for help. 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. Everything they were talking about is stuff that we talked about in DOS and that I knew already when I listened to that, except the fact that there were the seven of them and they planned to stay, the seven of them. We were supposed to be uniform: All looking the same, and fully frontally naked, Salzman testified. Terrified, she called out Ranieres name, only for him to emerge from a walk-in closet next to the bedroom. 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. Agnifilo states, he was done. 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. 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. 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. A Well, yes. She said she recruited six women, whom she called her slaves, and who were inducted into the group. C-SPAN's operating revenues come from license fees paid by cable systems and satellite companies that offer the network to their. I dont know that. I thought that really went pretty far beyond the pale, frankly. Following Ranieres arrest in Mexico, Salzman said, she started to come to terms with the true extent of Ranieres thrall over her; at times, she appeared to be processing it even while she was on the stand. Judge, can we have a sidebar? She said she could not sit with the defense and continue to lie. I knew that before. Q When you were in DOS before anybody was arrested, were you doing things intentionally to break the law? On Monday, Salzman provided more sensational details about the alleged inner workings of the group. AGNIFILO: No, no, I thought she was about to answer, so I told her not to. Do you think you can do some articles about how they got involved, why they were allowed into Keiths inner circle, and what crimes they committed or may have committed. 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. A I didnt know specifically it was a racketeering violation, but I knew things were illegal that I was doing and I did them anyway. But what I had here was, I had a crisis here. Longtime Nxivm accountant Kathy Russell, who has copped to charges of visa fraud, still awaits sentencing. Lauren stepped down. The one who was not applying them was the man who made them up Keith Raniere. Judges have great power to control the courtroom. Are the transcripts of the trial released anywhere? A I just listened to these recordings the day before yesterday for the first time. Allowed herself to be both vulnerable and strong. The relationships I learned about when I joined but it wasnt confusing to me that there had been time spent developing those things. During that period, Salzman acted as Danis only liaison with the outside world, delivering apologetic letters that she wrote to Raniere few of which, Salzman testified, he actually read. 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. Id. Q And these are meetings between Keith, Monica Duran, Dani Padilla, and Loreta Garza, right? She pleaded guilty to only racketeering conspiracy, and was the. THE COURT: Asked and answered. 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). Parlato has been prominently featured on HBOs docuseries The Vow and was the lead investigator and coordinating producer for Investigation Discoverys The Lost Women of NXIVM. In addition, he was credited in the Starz docuseries 'Seduced' for saving 'slave' women from being branded and escaping the sex-slave cult known as DOS. Hes been convicted. 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. On Friday, Lauren Salzman, 42, took the stand in the trial against Keith Alan Raniere. Agnifilos approach of what did you think at the time was a loser from the git-go. . AGNIFILO: Im more concerned, quite frankly, about, I thought I took great pains to be appropriate and even-keeled. According to Salzmans testimony, he and Dani reached an agreement that she would be confined in a room in a home she shared with her parents, with no communication with the outside world; if she did not agree to these terms, Salzman testified, she would have to go back to Mexico. Sex Toy Testimony at NXIVM Trial Raises Questions About Kink and Consent 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. THE COURT: We have been through this. I think the full transcripts are meant to drop on January 21st. Salzman, a former . A Yes, but it was at a time when Keith and I werent interacting very much [during] the two years that Pam was sick and dying. Q Keith had a child with Kristin Keefe; right? Thank you!!! I am happy as a bug in a rug reading all of this! Create a free profile to get unlimited access to exclusive videos, breaking news, sweepstakes, and more! 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. ; see, e.g., Trial Transcript ("Tr.") at 619-24 (testimony of Mark Vicente regarding Nxivm recruitment strategies); id. Q You just said before that one of your concerns with Keith is that he was with all these other women, you know, rather than being with Pam as shes dying, that he started I think you said twelve new relationships; correct? Q What was your intention when you were in DOS? At times she approached tears and spoke sometimes in a shaky voice. 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. He called in and wanted to make sure we were flicking the wrist hard enough, Salzman said. Then Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis rose. THE COURT: So you can sit down. The organization is commonly called a "cult," and has been termed a "racketeering enterprise" by the U.S. government. There were a lot of things created and they had all been created and implemented in my absence, so I knew that I had come into something, that there had been things before. Sign up forOxygen Insiderfor all the best true crime content. A I think it was progressive. Q And with the exception of Rosa Laura, Keith slept with all of those women? Tell us what you think will happen next? 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. A Because I think Keith had a whole bunch of people [DOS first line women] to meet his objectives and serving him in a way that Pam facilitated before. I lied to the entire community about it, she testified. Link your TV provider to stream full episodes and live TV. 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. Nxivm 'slave master' Lauren Salzman gets time served for role in cult How a mother and daughter rose up in Nxivm, got indicted and eventually turned against Keith Raniere Catherine Oxenberg feared daughter India had suicide pact with NXIVM sex cult Survivor of sex cult explains how she avoided being brainwashed by NXIVM I do a lot of transcription for work and this is how everyone's transcribed speech reads like. 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. This is a broken person, as far as I can tell. When I try to get the 22nd or the 23rd, it shows as only one page. My main priority was that Keith was OK., Editors picks Q Did you think it was extortion when you took the stuff? She was told. THE COURT: No, we cant have a sidebar. 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. I misheard the answer. And you let Raniere and the others do what they did, even after I repeatedly begged you for help., The judge said that while Salzman had helped Raniere commit his harmful schemes and other sadistic and sexual deviant visions, she was also a victim of [his] depravity.. She has been on the stand for hours. The seduction assignment, he said, was intended to give women an experience with the man where the man couldve abused his power, but didnt.. Wow where to start with all these?! I think Pam facilitated a number of Keiths personal and romantic relationships and kept them alive throughout the years. Lauren Salzman had twenty-two slaves when she was exposed & arrested, according to the New York Times. Padilla had also planned to purchase a cage, though she canceled the order shortly after the inner workings of DOS were made public in the spring of 2017. Does anyone have access to transcripts between May 21 and 28 (the rest of Lauren's and the beginning of Daniela's)? Along with Raniere, Bronfman, Mack, and Salzman's daughter Lauren, the co-founder was arrested for an array of crimes in 2018.
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