She was told. I lied to everybody. 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. You may stand down. 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." "I believed Keith Raniere's intentions were to help people, and I was wrong," Mack told a judge while pleading guilty to racketeering charges. Keith will be acquitted? Raniere had fled to Mexico the year before, following a damning New York Times report 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. Bummer Let me know if you find them at some point- and thanks! A I didnt want I didnt want to sit I didnt want to defend the things that I did that were bad and that were criminal as good. PUBLISHED 4:16 PM ET May 20, 2019. There would be a cage for the people who were most committed to growth,'' Salzman testified. Theyll testify again. Brooklyn federal judge Nicholas Garaufis gave Salzman credit for time shes served under house arrest, as well as five years probation, noting that she had turned her life around. at 1619-20 (testimony of Lauren Salzman that Raniere preferred DOS recruits to be individuals "in positions of power and influence"). She talked to the police through the bedroom door, asking if they had a warrant. The Judge did what his conscience told him to do- be a compassionate human. When I tried to cut off the line of questioning, you just went right back to the line of questioning. The defendant, Keith Raniere, is at the defense table with his other lawyers. Q You have learned more about Keiths relationship with Cami, for instance? You made your points. She was dressed in a black pant suit. I didnt understand the question. Reading the direct transcripts is blowing my mind. Who knew court transcripts could be so addictive?! I am not talking about that. After providing collateral in the form of embarrassing documents and explicit naked photos, Salzman became what she referred to as a first-line slave of the group, or a member of DOSs innermost circle, reporting directly to Raniere, along with Junco, Mack, Clyne, and four other women. The messages also revealed that Camila was 15 when . THE COURT: Anything else from the defense? They began a sexual relationship in 2001, which they continued in secret until 2008 or 2009, while she was in DOS. Salzman, who was in NXIVM's Executive Success Programs (ESP) for nearly two decades, testified that she had been with Raniere in a $10,000-a-week resort when authorities in Mexico arrested the. 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? Get started with the examples above. 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. 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. He also instructed the group to make a website for the group under the new name Bar Alpha Mu, as he had told the women to tell other members of NXIVM that the brand was not of his initials, but of the Greek symbols. 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). A former high-ranking member of the alleged cult NXIVM testified against its alleged leader in court on Monday, accusing him of whipping, beating and playing other kinds of sex games with his top female members. Full name: Lauren Salzman Gender: Female Date of birth: 1977 Age: 44 years old (as of 2021) Ethnicity: White Nationality: American Famous for: Member of NXIVM Sexuality: Straight Height in feet: 5'5" Height in centimetres: 165 Hair colour: Black Eye colour: Green Father: Michael Salzman Mother: Nancy Salzman Sister: Michelle Salzman Court Reporter/Transcriber TypeWrite Word Processing Service, Telephone number 518-581-8973. She said she recruited six women, whom she called her slaves, and who were inducted into the group. Q Did you intend to commit extortion at the time that you did it? It never even crossed my mind that I would choose Keith and Keith would choose Keith, Salzman said. When police finally kicked down the door, Salzman said, they pushed her to the ground and pointed guns at her. When Salzman confronted Raniere about it, he denied sleeping with the women. Q . Meanwhile, Mack pleaded guilty last month to charges she manipulated women into becoming sex slaves for the group's spiritual leader. the part about her leaving suddenly I had conversations with Keith quite some time before she left where he wasnt sure he should spend time developing a close relationship with his son because of Kristin, and that if at some point he got close to Gaelyn, there might be some rift or separation between them that would be damaging to his son, so I think he foresaw that. Q You said on direct examination that you committed extortion; right? Salzman, the daughter of NXIVM. I figured this would be useful for others as well. Tell us what you think will happen next? 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. Salzman is the third of Ranieres five co-defendants to be sentenced in the case. I am not trying to argue with you. Mack, 38, of Smallville fame, was sentenced to three years in prison last month, after prosecutors asked for leniency due to her cooperation. 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 testified that a fellow DOS member, Daniella Padilla, told her Raniere had once been violent towards her after accusing her of being in a prideful state. Nothing.. On Wednesday, Salzman apologized for keeping a woman named Daniela captive in a room from 2010 to 2012 at Ranieres request and threatening to deport her to Mexico. And she was becoming disillusioned because she was watching him lie and telling her to lie and it was totally not ethical. Given that its almost impossible to imagine how continuing the questioning would have made any difference, I think theres almost no chance this matters on appeal. 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. [she is alternately tearing up and holding back tears.]. Lauren Salzman had twenty-two slaves when she was exposed & arrested, according to the New York Times. get it? The Government showed that there were 25 people admitted into Keiths inner circle over the years, but it looks like some of them Jack Levy, Monica Duran, Kristin Keefe have had few, if any articles devoted to them on here. Salzman, the former president and co-founder of NXIVM, was sentenced Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, to 42 months in prison and fined $150,000, but won't be locked up until January. Q Was it hard to hear his voice with their voices in these recordings that you transcribed? Bronfman has asked a federal appellate court to vacate her old sentence and order she be resentenced. I'm very PACER illiterate, I wish I could help you otherwise! HBO's The Vow, inevitably, features her story. According to NXIVM senior member Lauren Salzman, at the start of NXIVM meetings, the women described as "slaves" offered a tribute to Raniere. I hope he is abjectly miserable right now. 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. Q Right. Q In terms of you and your slaves, that didnt happen, right?, A My personal knowledge of what was going on in the other [slave] groups, based on what the women were sharing . I lied to the entire community about it, she testified. Lauren is a rat. 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. I showed reprehensible judgment, Salzman said. A She would draft the e-mail and suggest that the family use it and then Hector would use Kristins drafted e-mail, yes. Parlato appeared on the Nancy Grace Show, Beyond the Headlines with Gretchen Carlson, Dr. Oz, American Greed, Dateline NBC, and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, where Parlato conducted the first-ever interview with Keith Raniere after his arrest. The links no longer appear to work. Salzman is a former high-ranking member of NXIVM and former partner and confidante of Raniere. 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. Salacious Allegations Emerge In NXIVM Sex Cult Trial. Resolved: Release in which this issue/RFE has been resolved. This is so great! He basically verbally confessed to racketeering. THE COURT: We have been through this. "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. Garaufis terminated the cross-examination of the most important witness and denied the defendant his right to cross-examine witnesses against him. The 100 Best Albums of 2022. 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. 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? As far as Laurens being stupid, she doesnt come off as stupid at all. Trial transcripts are available on the federal PACER system, you can download each individual day as a PDF. She said it was hard to keep Raniere satisfied. This failure, combined with his on the record statement that he was done, will seriously hamper any appeal. and this is at a time when you and Keith are still talking about you possibly having children in the spring of 2016; correct? 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. Discussing NXIVM, the New York Capital Region-based group that sold expensive seminars of dubious value. Pea!! Check out never-before-seen content, free digital evidence kits, and much more! And you betrayed us. 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. She has been on the stand for hours. I did not do that in my group [get Keith sex slaves]. She pleaded guilty to only racketeering conspiracy, and was the. I dont want to talk about it anymore. Q And one thats one of the things that you went through; right? Having said that, I didnt think Agnifilo went overboard, there were a lot of questions where Salzman wasnt answering the question being asked. He should have taken a plea deal. 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. 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. TV actress Allison Mack, who was a slave master in the sex-cult and lured women into the group, got three years in prison . Thats what I did when I was in DOS. Q And these are meetings between Keith, Monica Duran, Dani Padilla, and Loreta Garza, right? The proof is in the pudding. Part 1: Lauren Salzman: Cross Examination Stopped by Judge: Women of Raniere and Lauren's 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: Lauren's Pain Over Not Having Child 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. And we saw that coming, I dont think [Kristin leaving] was suddenly. I misheard the answer. Reading and re-reading the transcript without intonation of voice brings me to one conclusion, there will not be a retrial/mistrial conclusion based on the Judge. ; see, e.g., Trial Transcript ("Tr.") at 619-24 (testimony of Mark Vicente regarding Nxivm recruitment strategies); id. Lauren Salzman is a name that you'll hear prominently in the unraveling of the self-help group NXIVM. Nancy Salzman Salzman, the co-founder of NXIVM with Raniere, was the first of high-ranking officials to plead guilty. Its clear she wasnt totally deprogrammed yet. Pam talked me back into my relationship with Keith over the years, many times, and Pam facilitated my relationship with Keith initially. Thats not how it works. You had plenty of if you had other things to say, you could have gone on and said them. During her testimony at Raniere's trial, she. Alas, Salzman still awaits her sentence a year later . So you have your record, and if there is a conviction, you can appeal my decision to the Second Circuit, okay? And thats really what this was. 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. She had been on the floor and he had kicked her, Salzman recounted Padilla telling her. He would have had a child with you., Pea: Lauren stepped down. Q Let me ask you the question. 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. Two cages had already been ordered for the dungeon, according to the New York Post. We've received your submission. President (To Win Colorado) (D) Joe Biden* (R) Donald Trump. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast. 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). They were then whipped and paddled with a spiked sex toy, she claimed. Q Let me just ask you the question. Q And you said that Kristin told you, and a group of people, that she brought Daniella over the border. La Secta Que Sedujo al Poder en Mxico by Juan Alberto Vasquez. And it says something about the utter STUPIDITY of Lauren Salzman that it takes the Mexican Police pointing machine guns at her head to begin to wake her up. Youre back! C-SPAN is a private, non-profit public service of the cable television industry that covers the political process. Lauren Salzman was in a criminal group that ended up being broken up when the police pointed machine guns at the members of this criminal group. A woman who testified about confining an undocumented migrant in a New York bedroom for nearly two years was sentenced to five years' probation with no prison time on Wednesday. Among the. And then I found out, during that time, he started like twelve new [sexual] relationships with people who were not compensating for those holes that were left in the organization [by Pam and Barbara Jeske] many of them didnt even share any of our values. Lauren Salzman, who pleaded guilty in federal court to charges of racketeering and racketeering conspiracy in March, told jurors that for many years Keith Raniere, 58, was the most important. We were supposed to be uniform: All looking the same, and fully frontally naked, Salzman testified. I was very upset, she said. Agnifilo states, he was done. https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/silicone-baby-avatar-babyclon-1.jpg. Just trusting and loyal to someone who was gifted at manipulation. THE COURT: All right, the witness is excused. Phone / Text: (305) 783-7083 THE COURT: Is there anything else from the Government for tonight? You could have asked your questions and moved on to the next question, but you kept coming back, and I am not going to have someone have a nervous breakdown on the witness stand in front of excuse me, this is not DOS. 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. A I did not do that. A Yes. When a Judge cuts you off from examining a witness, you have one, and only one job: create a record. Q Keith had a child with Kristin Keefe; right? I created enough damage to thwart our plans together for the rest of our lives, Salzman read from the document in court on Friday. A Yes. Agnifilos approach of what did you think at the time was a loser from the git-go. The judge were in stopping this and because of this the appeal will be successful and Keith will be free. I wanted her to be able to have that. Initially, Raniere said Dani would only have to stay a few days in the room, which contained little other than a bare mattress, for a few days. But most of my first-line DOS masters were telling me things that were gravely concerning to me that they were doing. The seduction assignment, he said, was intended to give women an experience with the man where the man couldve abused his power, but didnt.. Salzman flew into a panic. Lauren is sobbing uncontrollably by the time she finished her answer. 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. 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. I think Pam facilitated a number of Keiths personal and romantic relationships and kept them alive throughout the years. But according to Salzmans testimony, she ended up staying for somewhere between 18 and 24 months. If you read through the transcript, news articles and asked anyone at the closing arguments, your Vanturd is guilty without Salzmans testimony. So, sure. Salzman and other DOS masters, including Garza. I didnt know what it was. To get a PACER account requires you to put up a credit card. Q Did you intend to hurt anyone, did you intend to scare anyone? The man Salzman had previously described as her most important person her mentor, spiritual advisor, and lover; the man whose initials she had chosen to brand into the flesh above her abdomen; the man who had taught her the values of love, sacrifice, personal responsibility and courage had, when confronted with arrest, run away and hidden in a walk-in closet. And not in my courtroom. I thought it was extremely excruciating. Actually it sounds like Lauren was really being ethical and was waking up to what that really means.