Self-styled spiritual leader Keith Raniere is hit with new child pornography charges shortly after co-founder Nancy Salzman admitted guilt in group efforts to spy on perceived enemies
Nancy Salzman, second from right, is followed by reporters as she leaves U.S. Federal Court in Brooklyn, N.Y., on March 13, 2019.A case featuring sensational claims that followers of a New York self-help organization were forced to become sex slaves took a new turn on Wednesday with one key defendant pleading guilty and another being hit with child pornography charges.
“It has taken some time and soul searching to come to this place,” said Salzman, choking back tears. “I accept that some of what I did was not just wrong, but criminal. … If I could go back and do it all over again, I would. But I can’t.”How a secretive, cult-like group in upstate New York drew more than $100-million from two Bronfman daughters
In a statement on Wednesday, defence attorney Marc Agnifilo denied the new allegations and questioned the timing with his client nearing trial on other charges. Salzman, a registered nurse who was known as “Prefect” within NXIVM, was involved in stealing identities of the group’s critics and hacking into their e-mail accounts from 2003 to 2008, prosecutors said. They also alleged that she conspired to doctor videotapes showing her teaching NXIVM’s lessons before the tapes were turned over to plaintiffs in a New Jersey lawsuit against the group.
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