CLINTONS RECEIVED CASH FROM
'CULT' LEADERS WHO BRAINWASHED SEX SLAVES, Court
documents: Women 'required to be naked,' 'threatened with being put in cages',
3/27/18,
It’s a bizarre and twisted tale of
brainwashed sex “slaves” who were branded with a leader’s initials on
their private parts – and top executives of the secretive group
in upstate New York reportedly pumped thousands of dollars into Hillary
Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.
Keith Raniere, co-founder of NXIVM,
was arrested Monday in Mexico and extradited to the U.S., where he is being
charged with sex trafficking. He appeared in court Tuesday in Texas and signed
a waiver for US Marshals to bring him back to New York.
On Tuesday, the FBI
raided the Albany home of Nancy Salzman, 63,
a registered
nurse and hypnotist who
is president of NXIVM. The organization describes itself as a
“community guided by humanitarian principles that seek to empower people and
answer important questions about what it means to be human.” In a series of
articles published by James Odato in the Albany Times Union, NXIVM’s practices
were questioned and the group was compared to a cult.
A criminal complaint charging
Raniere, 57, with sex trafficking alleges that he made female followers have
sex with him and do menial chores for masters. The women were reportedly forced
to stay quiet about the arrangement or they would be publicly humiliated.
According to the complaint, victims
were branded in their pelvic areas with a symbol featuring Raniere’s initials.
The branding was performed with a cauterizing pen. Raniere was reportedly known
as “The Vanguard.”
“During the branding ceremonies,
slaves were required to be fully naked, and the master would order one slave to
film with the other held down the slave being branded,” the legal document
states, according to CBS News.
“Investigators said that Raniere
preferred exceptionally thin women, so ‘slaves’ had to stick to very
low-calorie diets and document every food they ate,” CBS reported. “As
punishment for not following orders, women were forced to attend classes where
they were ‘forced to wear fake cow udders over their breasts while people
called them derogatory names,’ or threatened with being put in cages, court
papers say.”
Raniere reportedly fled the U.S.
last year after the government started interviewing witnesses. Court documents
say he dumped his cell phone and began using encrypted email.
Authorities found him living with
several women in a posh gated community in Puerta Vallarta.
“After authorities took him into
custody on a U.S. warrant, investigators said that the women got into a
high-speed car chase,” CBS reported.
The NXIVM website describes
Raniere as a “scientist, mathematician, philosopher, entrepreneur,
educator, inventor and author” who has “devoted his life to studying the human
psychodynamic and developing new tools for human empowerment, expression and
ethics.”
Senior FBI official William Sweeney
told BBC News: “Keith Raniere displayed a disgusting abuse of power in his
efforts to denigrate and manipulate women he considered his sex slaves. He
allegedly participated in horrifying acts of branding and burning them, with
the co-operation of other women operating within this unorthodox pyramid
scheme.
These serious crimes against
humanity are not only shocking, but disconcerting to say the least, and we are
putting an end to this torture today.”
In 2017, Raniere denied the claims
against him in a letter on his website, stating, “These allegations are most
disturbing to me as non-violence is one of my most important values.”
In October 2007, then-New
York Post writer Charles Hurt reported
that leaders of the Albany group gave thousands to Clinton’s 2008 presidential
campaign. And Salzman, the woman whose home was reportedly raided by the FBI,
is reportedly a member of the Clinton Global Initiative.
Hurt
reported: Executives and top associates of
the Albany-based NXIVM group – along with their family members – donated
$29,900 to Clinton’s presidential campaign, according to federal records.
On March 14 and April 13, records
show, more than a dozen contributions poured into Clinton’s coffers from NXIVM,
an executive and group-awareness training organization led by Brooklyn-born
Keith Raniere, 47.
Most were from first-time political
donors, each giving the $2,300 maximum. …At least three of them – group
President Nancy Salzman and the Bronfman sisters – are members of Bill’s
charitable organization, the Clinton Global Initiative. Membership is by
invitation only and requires at least a $15,000 donation per person for one
year.
An Albany
woman with the name of Nancy Salzman has
also contributed nearly $1,000 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign
Committee and $400 to the pro-abortion group Emily’s List.
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