Excerpt: Chapter 42: The NXIVM Scandal: The Sex Cult, Megalomania and Pedophilia Protected by the Pedo-Cabal || Pedophilia & Empire: Satan, Sodomy, & The Deep State | Joachim Hagopian | PedoEmpire.org
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This 5-volume book series unearths the global child sexual trafficking, that is the satanic abuse network across the planet. Each major scandal represents merely a tip of the iceberg, the uncovered truth prior to the state’s standard criminal cover-up, leaving the full extent of organized child abuse never seen in the full light of day. But by taking the sum of all these iceberg tips as this exhaustive investigation aims, a bigger picture emerges that connects the global sex trade exploiting children to the highest echelons of power. At the top of this hierarchical pyramid of truly diabolical power and control are the Illuminati bloodlines, the Black Nobility of Europe, most visibly represented by the Rothschilds and European royal families headed by the House of Windsor and House of Orange, and the powerful behind-the-scenes bloodlines that are the puppet masters controlling the top government politicians, entertainers, media, bankers, judges, CEOs, police commanders, generals, the mid-level minions serving as the “governing” body (INO) of policymaking puppets that enforce the dictates and marching orders of their masters. Lucifer’s secret societies actively operating out of Rome, London, DC, New York, Brussels are integral, interlocking components within this global pedo-cabal network.
At the wider base of this power pyramid structure are the supporting players, the gatekeeping trusted lieutenants in this criminally corrupt cabal engine. In the context of the global pedophilia network, these would include the pedo-ringleaders functioning as blackmailing procurers and gatekeepers that actually run the day-to-day child trafficking operations. These are criminal elements within the UN, the EU, major national governments (US State Department, UK Foreign Office), intelligence services (MI5/6, CIA, Mossad), government private contractors (Serco,[1] DynCorp[2]), child foreign aid charities (Oxfam, Red Cross),[3] assorted government and NGOs including child charity, adoption and welfare agencies,[4] including children and family courts,[5] fringe rogue elements within the military (See Book 4, Chapter 4), organized crime down to criminal street gangs. Big Media’s job is to pretend this colossal pedo-cabal doesn’t even exist, and whenever the topic is forced to the surface, ensure that damage control deflects away from the one designated “fall guy” that never fails to emerges from each tip of the iceberg scandal. Whenever pedophilia scandals get uncovered, virtually always the press moves in to focus on only one designated ringleader as the lone “gunman” or megalomaniacal mastermind, the single lone operator, rotten apple, evil villain, sick fuck that gets busted. With every scandal having an identified fall guy, Big Media’s job is to make certain his connection to the wider global network stays buried in media blackout and denial. The idea is through sleight of hand deception, misdirection, disinformation and outright lies to steer all public awareness away from connecting the dots to the much larger, invisible, hidden [in plain sight] organized trafficking network that is both worldwide and pervasively far-reaching.
The designated so-called mastermind heavy behind the Franklin scandal was Lawrence E. King, diffusing public awareness away from the White House and quintessential child raping overlord George HW Bush. The designated fall guy(s) arrested in each of the British scandals was always way down on the totem pole power – John Allen in the North Wales scandal, Kincora Boys Home housemaster William McGrath and his two Kincora cohorts in Northern Ireland, Elm Guest House proprietors Haroon and Carole Kasir, and Dunblane’s Thomas Hamilton the deranged mass shooter. But a media blackout of his pedo-procuring role for VIPs remained off limits, needing to evoke the 100-year rule to ensure the wider pedo-network stay hidden for a century. Only after the famous pedophiles are safely in their graves is it okay to make them infamous, releasing names of UK’s worst offenders like Jimmy Savile and MP Cyril Smith AD. But even then, in the aftermath of the Savile revelations, Jimmy Savile was described as a “lone operator,” albeit with intimate ties to big name royalty, prime ministers, bishops and popes.
In the sports pedo-scandals Coach Sandusky or the US Olympic gymnastics team doctor Lawrence Nassar, UK soccer coach Barry Bennell, always the minor cogs in the bigger wheel that media ensures remain off limits. In other words, it’s always one or at most two demons per the Epstein-Maxwell operation, surgically they always deceptively stay isolated as each scandal’s designated evil lone operator(s). The “unfree” press is never permitted to connect all the dots, however obvious, to unveil the binding ties incriminating all the supporting players that customarily get away with child rape and murder because of their VIP or gatekeeping status, thus other child procurers, traffickers, and major financiers atop the pedo-Establishment are also never held accountable. Global cabal overlords always remain untouched and the scourge continues.
But this never before macro-examination of global pedophilia provides a wider lens and scope perspective to unmask this planetary blight on humanity, shedding the additional light to show that all the scandals are very much interconnected, all belonging to the greater whole that is the worldwide trafficking network, sponsored, supported and exploited by the most powerful people on earth. Pedophilia and Empire exposes the pedophilia puppet masters and overlords behind this worldwide satanic network – the Windsors, the Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Duponts, Bushes, Clintons, Bronfmans, Wexlers and the Venetian bloodlines protected by their far-removed obscurity possessing even more power and control than the household names.
Because Epstein and Maxwell’s blackmail operation sponsored by Israeli military intelligence in cahoots with CIA and MI6, lured into its international web royalty, presidents and prime ministers, Hollywood A-listers, Fortune 500 CEOs, bankers, top scientists, prestigious university presidents and members of the exclusive elite class, when Epstein finally was re-arrested in 2019, slowly the enormity of Israel’s global blackmail control through Epstein and his partner Guislaine’s power and influence emerged to reveal the larger tip of their pedo-iceberg, complete with its publicly exposed worldwide glacier tentacles.
Similar to the Epstein-Maxwell operation, Keith Raniere’s NXIVM (pronounced NEX-ee-um) also maintained deep Clinton ties. The Albany, New York based self-help organization and their leaders pumped near $30,000 into then New York’s Senator Hillary Clinton’s 2008 first failed presidential run with over a dozen contributions made in 2007 alone.[6] Additionally, NXIVM co-founding president, former psychiatric nurse, hypnotherapist and neurolinguistics expert Nancy Salzman, and NXIVM’s two largest financiers Clare and Sara Bronfman, the Seagram liquor heiresses, are all three members of the Clinton Global Initiative. CGI’s membership is by invitation-only at a cost of at least $15,000 per year.
It was also confirmed in court in May 2019 that Clare Bronfman had curried favor, buying NXIVM influence and protection from primetime pay-to-player Hillary with a bundled donation that illegally far exceeded campaign donor limits during her 2008 campaign.[7] Playing the political game with illicit campaign bribes is an old story in US politics. Additionally, to buy support and protection from the then longtime Republican controlled New York state senate in Albany, NXIVM is also on record having regularly contributed monies, as of 2007 up to $31,600 to the GOP coffers. This is the standard Modus Operandi for enticing government authorities to look the other way, especially when Raniere kept getting caught raping underage girls since at least 1984, but allowed to continue getting away with it for over three decades.[8] How? Bought influence and protection.
At Keith Raniere’s strategic behest, the Bronfman sisters would frequently hire the services of the most prominent politicians in New York State. With NXIVM’s headquarters located just outside the state capital Albany, Raniere and his Bronfman crime family knew they must develop unbreakable political alliances with as many local highly influential fat cats as possible. The senior NXIVM team realized that it would take more than just thousands of dollars spent on campaign contributions, so they took it a step further, actively courting the most powerful state senator in the state. For over three decades, the Empire State senator and GOP state majority leader (1994-2008), the late Joseph L. Bruno who at 91 just died in October 2020, a year after retiring from his potent post in 2008, was hit with federal corruption charges, blurring personal and political interests that embroiled him in controversial trials and appeals for the next half decade.[9] Yet based on recent eulogies, it appears this man was a revered saint.[10] Make no mistake, his “tainted” power endured. A February 2012 article from Albany’s Times-Union disclosed:
The former Senate Majority Leader [Bruno] met with [Nancy] Salzman several times and won campaign contributions and jet rides for Senate Republicans from two key NXIVM devotees — Seagram’s heiresses Sara and Clare Bronfman.[11]
NXIVM also courted Bruno’s Senate lawyer Jack Casey, the former Republican Party chairman of the local Rensselaer County, into becoming a patron as both a student of the NXIVM Executive Success Program (ESP) and NXIVM legal adviser.[12] Former state health commissioner Antonia Novella also became a student celeb. Clare Bronfman hired yet another prominent fixture in New York politics, US Republican Senator from 1981 to 1999, Alfonse D’Amato’s lobbying and public affairs firm, Park Strategies. NXIVM and the Bronfman financiers have also employed the Arkansas based powerhouse Markham Group, public affairs advisors to the Clintons. With all these glowing connections from on high, now you know why Keith Raniere was able to commit crime after crime with total impunity for as long as he did, over three decades, joining the pedo-crowd pattern of virtually every other previous scandal.
Both NXIVM and the Bronfman sisters maintained super close ties to the Rothschilds and the Clintons.[13] That’s an indisputable fact. New York Democratic Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is also cozily linked to Keith Raniere and Bronfman’s controversial company NXIVM. Kirsten’s father Doug Rutnik was an NXIVM employee,[14] brought in his future wife (and cousin) Kirsten’s stepmother, high-powered attorney Gwen Bellcourt, who became an actual NXIVM full-fledged devotee.[15] After attending an NXIVM function seated next to the cult president Nancy Salzman, Senator Gillibrand was later caught in a boldface lie, denying she ever heard of the sex cult despite her own father and stepmother’s ultra-deep ties. Through her spokesman, when asked in November 2017 if she knew anything about NXIVM:
[Gillibrand]… never heard of this group until she recently read about them in the [NYT] newspaper.[16]
With Albany Gillibrand’s hometown, never mind her deep family connection, with the Albany Times Union exposing the sex cult as early as 2003, it would be impossible for her to never have heard of NXIVM until the October 2017 New York Times article.[17] The #metoo champion was busted as a liar.
The other New York Senator, the prominent Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, was also a compromised ally by virtue of NXIVM gaining possession of his financial records, again buying off protection through any and all means necessary as the Raniere-Bronfman-Luciferian way.[18] Regardless of who’s in power – Clinton, Gillibrand, Schumer, Democrats, Republicans, it doesn’t matter, NXIVM always successfully curried favor with all these top-powered connections. Yet Big Media’s bread and circus coverage of the NXIVM never delves into the Raniere-Bronfman support from the larger pedo-Establishment that protected the Satanic Child Sex Trafficking Cult for decades. This linkage between child sex traffickers operating with decades of impunity and their always cordial relations with high level politicians “convinced” to look the other way are an established fact in every scandal in every nation.
NXIVM maintained offices worldwide, which meant outreach to not only local, state and national powerbrokers but international VIPs as well. The former Mexican strongarm president Carlos Salinas is a crime family patriarch whose son Emiliano Salinas was Mexico’s NXIVM founder, NXIVM executive board member and longtime senior lieutenant within the criminal operation.[19] Emiliano was quoted in a 2003 Forbes article, calling Raniere’s program “like a practical” MBA. Another former Mexican president, Vicente Fox’s daughter Cristina was yet another high-end, card-carrying cult member.[20] Between these prominent political crime families entrenched in both Mexico and America, NXIVM was able to wield considerable influence to successfully keep international legal authorities at bay for decades, despite the blatant criminality of ongoing child sex trafficking, pedophilia and racketeering.
If it wasn’t winning favor for protection from prominent figures in both state and national governments, NXIVM was ambitiously seeking support, credibility and a high-status endorsement from one of the most esteemed international religious figures in the world. Master Raniere sent the Bronfman sisters on another mission to aggressively lobby the spiritually renowned master himself – the Dalai Lama, to come pay a visit to their Albany based self-help group, as much to ward off the recurring cult stigma promoted by local press as to gain the worldwide respect, prestige and trust “rightfully” due a unique, irrepressible global avant-garde movement for the betterment of humankind. Sara Bronfman met with the 14th Dalai Lama’s venerable special emissary Lama Tenzin Dhonden and opened her legs for a torrid love affair to lure and secure a visit from His Holiness the Dalai Lama to join forces with NXIVM in a four-day event, culminated by the Dalai’s speech at the 7500 seat Albany Times Union Center on April 9, 2009.[21]
But as soon as the Dalai Lama visit to Albany was announced, a rash of local newspapers all trashed NXIVM, commenting how the Dalai’s coming to meet with the cult leader severely tarnishes the spiritual Tibetan leader’s reputation. No college would even sponsor the event, not even Keith’s alma matter Rensselaer Institute of Technology.
Perhaps the clincher was Schenectady Gazette’s Daniel Weaver scathing assessment:
Keith Raniere has been involved in controversy for the last 20 years. He’s been the subject of lawsuits and investigations. He has initiated numerous lawsuits, many of which appear to be frivolous. He also harasses people…. He is hardly a poster boy for humanitarianism, peace and ethics; and his invitation to the Dalai Lama to speak makes one question the motive of the invitation.…. Raniere has not utilized compassionate ethical methods and solutions to address problems. Keith Raniere has brought anything but peace to the Capital Region.[22]
The negative publicity spooked His Holiness enough at the last minute to cancel the big four-day NXIVM event in Albany.[23] Realizing this egg-on-the-face public embarrassment might carry disastrous long term consequences, Raniere hopped on the Sara and Clare Bronfman’s $11 million 22-seat private jetliner with Nancy Salzman and the cash cow sisters to make their desperate pilgrimage to Dharmasala, India to offer the Dalai Lama not just the original offer of $1 million, but raised it to $2, begging His Holiness to reconsider and make an Albany appearance. The Dalai ultimately agreed to show up for one day in May 2009. Never mind that the Bronfmans would be sitting up on stage next to him while lowly Keith was relegated to a seat in the audience. On May 6, 2009, before a mostly NXIVM audience of about 2,700 onlookers at the much smaller 2800 seat Albany Palace Theater, the Dalai Lama pontificated for near an hour and a half on the topic “Compassionate Ethics in Difficult Times” (accessible on YouTube[24]), referring to Raniere and Salzman as “respected teachers.” At the end of the talk, Vanguard, Raniere’s regal title, got to walk up on stage and ceremoniously receive a Tibetan white scarf of purity from his expensive guest. It was close enough to a full endorsement for NXIVM to run with it, frantically clamoring for a rare dose of positive publicity. While the Dalai Lama made a gestured acknowledgement, there would never be a second meeting between the two or any hoped for collaboration to together save the world. According to the onetime NXIVM publicist turned whistleblower Frank Parlato:
He [Dalai Lama] also clearly suggests that rumors about Nxivm and Raniere should be investigated by the media.[25]
So even though it was far from the full endorsement that Raniere and company proceeded to claim, just the fact that the Dalai showed up for 90 minutes and met Vanguard bequeathing a white scarf worn as the sought after feather in his cap so NXIVM could boast the Dalai Lama validated their master’s brand of “ethical purity,” however false that is. Per Frank Parlato’s frankreport.com, the argument could then be made:
How can we be a cult if the Dalai Lama endorses us? Don’t you see the media reports about us are all false? Who are you gonna trust – the Dalai Lama and Keith or the Albany Times Union and the New York Post?[26]
At the 44:14 mark in the Dalai’s video, he is asked about the confusion of his cancelled initial NXIVM invitation scheduled in April. The Dalai then explained the sequence of events. Upon meeting and talking to Keith and his entourage in India, apparently he was convinced that their motives were ethical and felt it his moral obligation to then show up and address this topic of ethics. Never mind that his visit had anything to do with him accepting $2 million from the Bronfmans. The Dalai also addressed allegations against NXIVM, urging the media to responsibly follow up and ultimately ascertain the truth about all the rumors. In his own words:
As for your sort of work for promotion of ethics, I fully support. Is my moral responsibility, but, at the same time, those allegations you must make very clear. If you have done something wrong, you must accept, you must admit, and change, make correction… [Regarding the media] make clear, and inform public, provided it must be very honest, unbiased, objective, that’s important…I want to tell the media people, ‘please carry continuously, all these spots where you have some doubt, thorough investigation.’[27]
The Bronfman’s $2 million managed to manipulate the Dalai into writing the forward to Raniere’s next book, the 352-page The Sphinx & Thelxiepeia that Amazon still sells in paperback for only $694.95. The forward dated April 2009 was the same month the Bronfman owned Ethical Publishing LLC in Albany released the book, just in time for his May visit.[28]
And as far as how the hot tub romance of canoodlers Sara Bronfman and her monk Tenzin Dhonden went, after he broke his celibacy vow, at its peak their intense love affair was so hot that the enthralled Sara bought her lover boy a home in Albany. After all, it was the emissary monk who saved the day, arranging for the NXIVM honchos to track His Holiness down in India to get him to change his mind. However, just as the 14th Dalai Lama never had anything more to do with NXIVM after his visit, neither did Tenzin Dhonden with Sara, as he was later seen in the company of “other rich heiresses and self-made women of fortune.”[29] However, all his carnal lust in the States may have gone to his head because after 15 years of service, the Dalai Lama suspended his personal emissary in the US on corruption allegations. The accuser was a Seattle businessman and philanthropist claiming Tenzin pressured him to make undue secret cash payments from 2005 to 2008.[30] So as of October 2017, the special emissary of the Dalai’s Trust Fund was temporarily relieved of his duties until the investigation allegedly cleared him of wrongdoing in July 2019.[31]
So, the Dalai Lama gave NXIVM its sought after, albeit guarded endorsement despite all the allegations, piously emphasizing the need for transparency and truth, while urging the press to investigate the cult’s improprieties and wrongdoing. The shameless Dalai took the $2 million to look the other way, giving the psychopath the benefit of the doubt on all those nagging suspicions and accusations that turned out to be true. The Dalai passed the buck to the media to find out whether any were true or not. If His Holiness merely did a cursory online search, he would’ve readily seen for himself that the man he stood on stage with gifting him a white purity scarf was every bit a shady fraudster, serial sexual predator and perhaps even a murderer. By 2009 there was so much dirt already out there, but His Holiness was too bedazzled seeing $2 million in dollar signs $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
By accepting the money, the Dalai Lama only showed himself to be an unethical hypocrite, exposing himself as a sellout. For a mighty cash bundle, His Holiness gave Raniere what he wanted, license to exploit Dalai’s backhanded, watered-down, half-assed endorsement, editing out the part about the press needing to investigate his criminality of course. From 2009 to 2017 Raniere readily countered all his doubters and critics, using the Dalai’s star power to his full advantage, selling both the Dalai’s and his own “ethical” program for a hefty price tag, along with the star-studded power of such powerful other patrons as Richard Branson, Emiliano Salinas, the Bronfmans, the pay-to-play Clintons and a self-serving platoon of political bipartisan heavyweights, while milking his ever-growing Hollywood stable.
For twenty years all this star-powered endorsement offered Raniere the much-needed cover and false bravado to help conceal his protracted, protected crime spree operation from full public exposure until late 2017, when the dam finally broke and a flood of sordid, heinous filth he could no longer pay to hide came pouring out. The guru imposter boasting the world’s highest IQ was thoroughly exposed and disgraced. But the insecure evil asshole never operated in a vacuum. Only through Bronfmans’ “open sesame” bribery was Raniere able to solicit and secure strategic alliances and support from a carefully accrued, highly corrupted power base that in essence protected him, not unlike Epstein, for decades allowing his unchecked criminality to wantonly ruin and destroy countless lives.
Though NXIVM had been called a cult since the early 2000s, and maintained a controversial past throughout its entire existence, despite being exposed by a Forbes article in 2003 just five years into existence, due to NXIVM’s formidable political clout, the legal authorities constantly let the criminal organization off the hook. From the October 2003 Forbes cover story exposé:
Forbes found that some people see a darker and more manipulative side to the would-be guru, saying he ran a cult-like program aimed at breaking down his subjects psychologically while inducting them into a bizarre world of messianic pretensions, idiosyncratic language and ritualistic practices.[32]
Again, as always is the case, if these sobering concerns and troubling issues had been investigated properly way back when, think of how many people who suffered egregiously right up to Raniere’s 2018 arrest would have been spared. Even the Zionist president of the Jewish World Congress, Mega-Group colleague of Epstein financier Les Wexner, and father to NXIVM financiers Clare and Sara Bronfman, after checking out what was consuming his in-deep daughters draining their vast wealth, the now late Edgar Bronfman accurately concluded back in 2003:
I think it’s a cult.[33]
A rift erupted between Edgar and his wayward sex slave daughters over their costly cult involvement. To Edgar, they became a deep embarrassment and source of humiliation during his final decade of life leading up to his December 2013 death.
The final straw to the NXIVM crime spree came once an October 2017 New York Times article exposed its inhumane branding practice.[34] Several victimized former members were calling for an investigation by the New York state attorney general Mark Abrams. It was publicly released that members were coerced into literally being branded with Keith Raniere and Allison Mack’s initials savagely burnt into their pelvic bone flesh. These were women who had been invited into the NXIVM inner circle otherwise known as The Vow called DOS, an anacronym for the Latin expression Dominus Obsequious Sororium that translates into “Lord/Master of the Obedient Female Companions,” i.e. “slave women.” On the pretext of an initiation ceremony that might include a small tattoo, in March 2017 three naked and blindfolded women were lured into a traumatic, life-changing ordeal. One of them, a successful Canadian actress named Sarah Edmondson, former head of the NXIVM Vancouver office, explained the horrifying experience during an ABC 20/20 interview:
It was worse than childbirth. Imagine a hot laser dragged across your flesh for 30 minutes without anesthetic.[35]
During a ceremonial branding like cattle, according to the prosecutors, Allison Mack would place her hands on the branded inductee’s chest, telling them “feel the pain” and “think of [their] master.”[36] “Feel the pain” is akin to Luciferian high priestess Marina Abramovic’s spirit cooking and her blood dripping dictum “eat the pain.”[37] Satanic ritual elements are embedded throughout the sex cult’s culture and ritual activities that include group chanting. According to an October 2019 Rolling Stone article, Raniere instructed his deputy Allison Mack to tell the branded victims just before instead of after their flesh burn so as not to appear quite so coercive:
Pain is how we know how much we love. We know the depth of our love through pain. When they feel the pain, they think of that love.[38]
Forming the secret NXIVM insider “sisterhood” group called DOS in 2015, in January 2016 Raniere dictated Allison Mack’s script to be laid on unsuspecting initiates, the recorded conversation played as evidence at their separate trials.
Two months after the branding incident, Sarah Edmondson went to the FBI Albany office with her story, revealing that another round of brandings was scheduled within the week, expecting the FBI to immediately raid NXIVM facilities, but nothing happened, and more women were coerced into branded slavery.[39] Sarah armed federal law enforcement with the same evidence used to convict Raniere more than three years later. She joined a growing list of whistleblowers that attempted over many years to mobilize local authorities to finally take legal action against the cult criminals but always to no avail. This confirms the corruption and power that big money through the Bronfman crime family paying off dirty New York politicians could effectively subvert justice for two straight decades.
One of the early ex-girlfriend defectors that was with NXIVM for 10 years as a financial planner is Barbara Bouchey.[40] When she learned Raniere was bedding down board members, she and eight other NXIVM members left in 2009. Within 18 hours, Clare Bronfman served her papers charging Barbara with extortion that legally went nowhere. Her lawyer then learned that Raniere was the one under investigation for tax evasion for never paying taxes,[41] along with other financial crimes but that too went nowhere. Bouchey also found out that in 2014 the US Attorney General’s office had Raniere under yet another probe for potential charity fraud and its Rainbow Cultural Garden international daycares teaching 7 languages to toddlers without a license. More on that dangerous farce in a bit. In 2015 Barbara Bouchey also met with the FBI turning over videotapes implicating Raniere that she’d received from yet another former girlfriend-senior NXIVM staff Kristin Keeffe, who literally escaped from Raniere the year prior. Bouchey informed the FBI about the money laundering from Mexico and hacked bank accounts of federal judges. But still no action was taken against Raniere’s decades’ long criminal operation. For more than a decade Barbara the whistleblower did her best to get the feds and the local state offices to finally shut down the Raniere-Bronfman criminal enterprise, but top-down corruption stymied every effort. In the end, it was the Brooklyn DA office to launch the investigation leading to the prosecution. But every single individual that attempted to bring down NXIVM was bogusly charged and dragged into court by Albany authorities, owned by NXIVM. That’s how powerful and sinister Raniere’s allies were.
NXIVM’s self-improvement seminars and workshops began in 1998 when former registered psychiatric nurse Nancy Salzman and Keith Raniere co-founded their nefarious umbrella organization they called NXIVM. In 2002 the con-man Raniere convinced the Seagram heiress billionaires Clare and Sara Bronfman to declare themselves and their fortunes all in, as of 2010 having contributed upwards of $150 million to their diabolical cause.[42] Keith Raniere wasted $66 million of the Seagram girls’ fortune on bad commodities investments, and another $30 million on property investments.[43] The Bronfmans became a menace to ex-members and critics, using millions more on bogus lawsuits for intimidation and harassment, committing perjury, blackmail and forgery. In the last decade with all the bad blood litigation and payoffs that have gone down, the total must be off the charts now as Clare and Sara are to this day committed to still do their master’s nasty bidding.
Initial recruits to his 5-day Executive Success Program (ESP) paid $7,500 to $10,000 each,[44] subjecting themselves to grueling 12-hour “intensives” designed to offer through “Rational Inquiry” the necessary self-insight to recognize how emotional fears and previously hidden unresolved issues held them back from freely pursuing and actualizing their full potential.[45] Essentially, Raniere stole concepts from L. Ron Hubbard’s scientology,[46] neo-liberal influencer Ayn Rand,[47] the forerunner EST (Erhard Seminars Training out of Esalen Institute near Big Sur, California),[48] and cognitive behavior therapy.[49] NXIVM victim turned survivor Sarah Edmondson, who wrote an exposé called Scarred,[50] has stated that therapists weren’t even allowed to join the group due to Raniere’s paranoia that they’d rip off his secrets. Bottom line reality is they’d confront him as the rip-off artist for stealing so many basic concepts as plagiarized rehash of cognitive behavior therapy.
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