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Eugene

(61,872 posts)
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 06:28 PM Sep 2021

Nxivm sex cult co-founder Nancy Salzman sentenced to prison

Source: BBC

Nxivm sex cult co-founder Nancy Salzman sentenced to prison

8 September 2021

Nxivm co-founder Nancy Salzman has been sentenced to over three years in prison for her role in the suspected sex cult.

She pleaded guilty to racketeering offences in 2019. Investigators say Nxivm was a sex-trafficking operation disguised as mentoring group.

Salzman, 66, admitted in court to stealing the email addresses and passwords of Nxivm critics.

The group's spiritual leader, Keith Raniere, was sentenced to 120 years in prison in October 2020.

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Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58495543


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Nxivm sex cult co-founder Nancy Salzman sentenced to prison (Original Post) Eugene Sep 2021 OP
While happy to see bad people suffer the consequences of their crime... Moostache Sep 2021 #1
Well, she was arrested in 2018 AZSkiffyGeek Sep 2021 #4
Why does he get 120 years 3Hotdogs Sep 2021 #2
FWIW, Allison Mack got 3 years, too. Gidney N Cloyd Sep 2021 #3
3 years... I guess at 66 that's something at least. harumph Sep 2021 #5
3 years isn't enough, IMO. Ilsa Sep 2021 #6

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
1. While happy to see bad people suffer the consequences of their crime...
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 06:31 PM
Sep 2021

I can't help but draw parallels from cults like Nxivm to the modern GOP and wonder why the fuck are the prosecutions for people like Trump, Gaetz, and the January 6th domestic terrorists taking so goddamn long to work through?

AZSkiffyGeek

(11,008 posts)
4. Well, she was arrested in 2018
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 07:20 PM
Sep 2021

Plead guilty in 2019 and sentenced in 2021.
So I don't think this happened quickly.

Ilsa

(61,694 posts)
6. 3 years isn't enough, IMO.
Wed Sep 8, 2021, 09:09 PM
Sep 2021

I don't care if she cooperated. She was a psychologist or something, and she helped Raniere create this manipulative brainwashing program.

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