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In this episode of American Greed.
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I'm just a demon.
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Keith Raniere is Vanguard.
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Everything was, thank you, Vanguard.
Even though the guy wasn't in the room,
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was like the Wizard of Oz.
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He is the self -proclaimed smartest man
in the world.
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He was the most ethical. He was the
highest minded. He looked up at the
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and saw through them.
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A godlike figure to his followers who
funneled millions to his self -help
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People gave him money, like piles and
piles, to do what he wanted with.
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But as former insiders now reveal, he
uses it to fuel his most dangerous
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appetites. For Keith Raniere, this was
about sex, money, and power.
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A multi -million dollar financial
machine.
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The members were brainwashed, kept on
starvation diets.
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That funds unspeakable crimes.
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And branded them with his initials.
Everything in my body is a get out.
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It's party time in Puerto Vallarta.
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High season.
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Spring break.
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We're just off the beach in a luxury
villa.
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The party's over.
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Mexican police burst through the door.
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They hold a woman at gunpoint in the
bedroom.
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But it's a man that they're looking for.
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And he's hiding in the closet.
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he was willing to basically sacrifice
her for himself in that moment.
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Eventually, the police do get that man.
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Let's go in the car.
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We're going to follow them.
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The orgy planned for that evening will
have to wait.
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Let's go, you guys.
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It is the beginning of the bitter end
for a man who minutes earlier seems to
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have the world at his fingertips.
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Keith Allen Ranieri is a world -renowned
guru, a sort of life coach with an
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edge. I'm very devilish, and I think I'm
probably the worst coach in the world
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because I'm just a demon.
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He's the leader of an organization with
a strange name.
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and an even stranger spelling, Nexium,
offering self -improvement courses based
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on a philosophy called rational inquiry,
patent pending, that Ranieri sells on
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YouTube. I'm curious, why do you call
rational inquiry a technology?
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You could call it a methodology, too.
But a technology, if you look
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at the definition of the word, I think
technology fits.
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I was there from the beginning of the
program in 1998.
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Businesswoman Angela Ucci swears by the
training.
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Rational inquiry was a systematic
approach to looking at
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your issues in a rational way that would
have you shine light on
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where you developed them yourself and
why they might not be rational.
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Don't quite understand it? Keith Raniere
is here to help. He bills himself as
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the smartest man in the world with an IQ
of 240.
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Not one, but three degrees from the
prestigious Rensselaer Polytechnic
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in upstate New York. A child judo
prodigy and a concert -level pianist who
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demonstrates his talent.
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But despite his innumerable skills, he
claims to live like a monk, a
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No need for material wealth when one
holds the keys to higher consciousness,
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which Ranieri shares in videos like this
to spread his teachings.
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All the things that happen in life on
this earth are really an
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exercise in oneself with oneself.
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I loved the program.
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It had emotional components, it had
philosophical components, and then it
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practical components of goal setting.
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The programs attract some wealthy, well
-connected participants, according to
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former NXIVM publicist Frank Parlato.
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So they had quite a flow of money.
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Emiliano Salinas, the son of the former
president of Mexico.
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Alejandro Betancourt, who was the son of
a financier.
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NXIVM training centers spring up across
North America with big names
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from business and government reportedly
taking
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courses.
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But to get the full effect, you have to
come here to NXIVM headquarters outside
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Albany, New York, where new recruits go
through a 16 -day marathon boot camp of
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sorts known as an intensive.
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Students started at 7 in the morning and
stayed until 9, 10 at night, 16 days in
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a row.
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Only after their indoctrination are they
allowed to meet the man himself, the
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revered leader Keith Raniere.
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He was the most ethical. He was the
highest minded. He looked up at the
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and saw through them.
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Nectium Strange sessions follow what are
known as the rules and rituals.
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We would clap at the beginning or the
end of a class.
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We would also do the bow to each other,
and it was designed after Keith's
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martial arts background.
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Also borrowing from the martial arts,
every member wears a colored sash,
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signifying their rank.
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So you had a white sash as a student,
and then you went to yellow as a coach,
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and then orange as a trainer.
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I do know that some people were
vehemently against them.
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We discussed that people are going to
say that we're a cult if we have these
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things.
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Unlike a judo belt that's based on
skills, NXIVM sashes are based on money.
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Even the entry -level white sash doesn't
come cheap.
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The introductory course alone runs as
much as $10 ,000, and no one ever
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graduates.
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You take a $5 ,000 course, and as soon
as you were done with that, you'd be
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now you're really ready to take the next
one.
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It's easy to rack up a six -figure tab
in a year, but trainers can make some of
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that money back by recruiting new
students.
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Trainers made, let's call it a
commission.
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On the program.
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But out of that commission, trainers
have to cover expenses like the hotel
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meeting room.
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At NXIVM, it appears that the path to
higher consciousness takes the shape of
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pyramid.
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Is it a pyramid scheme?
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It's possible that yes, it is. It was,
it had a, I'm going to say it was
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definitely pyramidical in nature.
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It was structured as a multi -level
marketing program that was probably
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pyramid in the sense that nobody but
Ranieri and a couple at the top made any
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kind of a living wage.
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To Ranieri's most devoted adherents,
none of that matters.
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They follow him to the quiet suburban
subdivision where he lives in this
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unassuming townhome.
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He owns no car, not even a driver's
license.
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But it's not so bad.
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When he lived here, there were 20 or 30
women who had similar townhomes.
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Did he want something to eat? Five or
six women would vie for the privilege.
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Should he want his feet massaged, he
could call upon 20 women, and each would
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hope for that opportunity to touch his
precious feet.
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In NXIVM, it takes a village.
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Next on American Greed, Keith Raniere's
twisted path from prodigy
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to pitchman and ultimately purveyor of a
toxic philosophy that will shock the
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world. The women have to learn how to
humiliate themselves.
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In this quiet subdivision outside
Albany, New York, NXIVM has taken root,
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to higher consciousness in the shape of
a pyramid.
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Founder Keith Raniere lives here with
his most ardent followers, most of whom
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happen to be women.
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He had dozens of women who wanted to
have nothing more than just a half an
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of his time. He had women fighting to do
his laundry.
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There are early morning walks and
evening volleyball games.
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And there's gossip.
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Robert Gavin is a reporter with the
Albany Times Union.
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There was a lot of questions about this
guy. Who is this guy?
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And there was a lot more questions than
there were answers. But the answers that
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we did know were not overly flattering.
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After graduating from Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute in 1982,
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Ranieri learns the basics of multi
-level marketing as an Amway
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By 1990, he has an idea for a business
of his own.
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Hello, I'm Eddie Albert. With a pitch
from aging 60s TV star Eddie Albert,
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Ranieri launches Consumers Buy Life, a
buying club where members pay a monthly
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fee to get discounts on all kinds of
products.
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His idea is not fancy.
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It's a simple one, practical.
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Full of common sense.
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The real money comes when members
recruit new members and collect
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Classic multi -level marketing.
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Tony Natale is an early employee,
captivated by Ranieri from their first
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meeting.
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When I said to him, so I don't
understand, you know, you have a 240 IQ.
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You could be curing cancer. God gifted
you with this brilliant talent.
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And he said, this is going to be...
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how I'm going to try to change the
world. And don't you want to come along?
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And, you know, that was the hook.
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So much so that Natali leaves her
husband, moves to Albany, and becomes
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Ranieri's girlfriend.
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At its peak, Consumer's Byline boasts
250 ,000 members.
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Keith Ranieri claims to be a
multimillionaire in his 30s.
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But there are complaints about high
-pressure sales tactics.
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Some members say they're not getting
paid.
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Twenty -three states launch
investigations.
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In 1996, Ranieri settled with the state
of New York without admitting wrongdoing
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for $40 ,000 and a promise to get out of
the multi -level marketing business in
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the state for good.
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He was not supposed to be involved in
that sort of thing again.
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Consumers Byline teaches Ranieri a tough
lesson.
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Just not the one the Attorney General
had in mind, according to former NXIVM
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consultant Joe O 'Hara.
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When he got caught on consumer byline,
his name was on everything.
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And so his takeaway from that was, well,
the next time I do something, I'm not
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going to have my name on anything.
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Within months, a new multi -level health
products business launches with Tony
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Natale at the helm.
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and Keith Bernieri serving as a
consultant.
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But in their personal life, as she will
later claim in a court filing, he
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becomes abusive.
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He is also spending more time with a
client, a local nurse named Nancy
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cooking up another multi -level venture
whose product is the meaning of life.
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Finally, Natale breaks off their
relationship.
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leaving Ranieri to focus on the business
with Salzman.
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It's called NXIVM.
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I do this, and it's with a twisted sense
of pleasure.
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On paper, Salzman is the CEO.
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He takes the title prefect.
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Ranieri proclaims himself a vanguard.
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In these videos, sharing the philosophy
with members, he dreams up the
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curriculum. Also, everyone who claims
victimhood is an abuser, and every
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is a type of victim.
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And she sells it as NXIVM's top
recruiter.
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Everyone who claims victimhood is an
abuser, and every abuser is a type of
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victim.
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Vanguard's teachings delve into the
differences between the sexes.
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So men see women as not able to deal
with responsibility.
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That is true, and the reason why is
because men keep them away from it,
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was necessary in the jungle.
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In 2002, NXIVM lands its most important
women yet.
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Sisters Claire and Sarah Brockman,
heiresses to the multi -billion dollar
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Seagram's Liquor Fortune.
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The sisters don't respond to inquiries
from American greed.
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Angela Ucci is one of their earliest
trainers.
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Sarah was in love with love.
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Sarah's a sweetie.
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When Claire came into the company, she
was a showjumper with horses, and she
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pretty well acclaimed.
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Keith convinced her that showjumping
wasn't for the highest good, and she
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decided to come on more full -time with
the company.
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The sisters are spending more time with
NXIVM, and they're spending more money,
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family money, the kind of money that
attracts attention.
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And I went, is that real?
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When American Greed returns, the women
of NXIVM.
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I felt like I met the people that I was
going to be working with to change the
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world. They join for a purpose.
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But Keith Raniere has a purpose of his
own.
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When Keith approached people sexually,
he knew full well their background
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and their psychology.
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In just five years, Keith Raniere's self
-help group, NXIVM, has gained a
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worldwide following, including Claire
and Sarah Brofman, the youngest
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of billionaire businessman and
philanthropist Edgar Brofman Sr.
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In 2003, the old man decides to see what
all the fuss is about.
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The girls wanted to work on their
relationship with him.
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Their dad came to a training in New York
City, and I coached his group.
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Initially, Brockman seems impressed, and
NXIVM appears ready to take off.
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They bring on board consultant Joe O
'Hara as a fixer of sorts.
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You come to me with your problem, I will
go find the solution.
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NXIVM also welcomes a national reporter
from Forbes magazine.
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People thought, in fact, that it was
going to be a positive article until it
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came out.
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There on the cover of the October issue
of Forbes is Keith Raniere, the world's
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strangest executive coach.
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NXIVM is described as a cult of
personality.
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All the sordid details are there.
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Consumers byline, the rules and rituals.
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The article says the 17 -hour days and
sleepless nights drive several students
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over the edge.
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At least one is hospitalized for
psychiatric treatment.
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It was a bad article.
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It was about as bad as you can get.
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The article claims Claire Brockman has
loaned the group $2 million, which she
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denies.
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Edgar Brockman's quote about Nectium
hits hardest of all.
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I think it's a cult.
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Keith blamed their father.
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for turning it into a negative article,
and it became a bone of contention with
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them and their dad.
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Bernieri tells Forbes that NXIVM is
nothing like a cult, but the damage is
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And Joe O 'Hara is finding the problems
may go deeper.
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There's a tremendous amount of money
going through this corporation, and they
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are doing some things that are pretty
dodgy.
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Like the fact that NXIVM is made up of
dozens of corporations, apparently part
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of a dubious tax strategy.
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I think by 2004, I had uncovered 40
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-something companies, and I was being
asked to set up more of them.
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Ranieri may have no wealth to his own
name, but Claire Brockman owns an island
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in the South Pacific at Vanguard's
disposal.
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I was invited on a walk with him early
on.
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It turns out he is no celibate monk.
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When Keith approached people...
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sexually. He knew full well their
background and their psychology.
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Angela Ucci shuts him down.
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She's surprised by his response.
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He went on to say, and I'm going to ask
you to make an agreement right now to
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never repeat this conversation to anyone
else.
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But in rational inquiry, secrets are a
no -no. We taught that secrets
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separate you from your full self
-expression.
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It is one of Uchi's first indications
that all may not be quite what it seems.
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Vanguard, happy, happy birthday.
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In NXIVM, Keith Raniere's birthday
doesn't just warrant a party. It's part
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10 -day celebration every August known
as Vanguard Week.
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Keith is on stage and people are
bringing up gifts.
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And then the Brockman sisters come out.
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All they've got is a big piece of
cardboard, like those checks you see
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people win the lottery. And they flip it
over, and they had just given Keith $20
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million.
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And I went,
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is that real?
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It's real, all right.
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Though officially it represents a future
charitable donation.
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But even that giant check doesn't seem
to be enough.
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The way I would describe Keith Raniere,
he's one of those people that can't
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afford to win.
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Because when he wins, he has to put it
all back in.
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Like when the Brockmans lend him $65
million to play the commodities market,
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he loses it all.
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He falsely claims Edgar Brockman Sr.
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must have rigged the market to spite
him.
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The loan is not repaid.
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Claire was perfect for Keith to take
advantage of her issue because her dad
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didn't really like her that much. Now
she's got big daddy Keith.
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Bronfman Money supercharges a strategy
Ranieri has been employing for years,
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dragging his enemies through legal hell.
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They were able to just continue to sue
them and sue them and sue them over
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everything you could think of.
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After Ranieri's bitter breakup with Tony
Natale, a judge finds that Ranieri
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relentlessly harasses her, even after
she declares bankruptcy.
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Normally, the process takes a few
months, a chance to make a fresh start.
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But Ranieri sues her in bankruptcy court
for fraud, tying up her case for years.
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The judge says it all smacks of a jilted
fellow's attempt at revenge.
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O 'Hara claims other enemies become the
targets of aggressive private
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investigators.
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What I know is enough for me to quit.
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But what really scared me is all the
things I didn't know.
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But walking away from NXIVM is much
easier said than done.
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The lawyers come after him.
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They kept changing law firms. We would
start all over again.
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Motions up.
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the wazoo every week there was a new
motion for something my legal fees
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to run a hundred thousand a month in the
end o 'hara says he has no choice but
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to declare bankruptcy too that was about
as low as i think i can remember being
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in my life former nexium consultant
frank parlato tells a similar story
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he is fired and dragged through the
courts including criminal fraud charges
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he denies but are still pending.
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He decides to fight back by launching a
blog.
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And I realized if they would do this to
me, who else is being victimized?
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But Vanguard has no time right now for
such earthly concerns.
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Up next, new friends in high places.
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Maybe he really is a guru.
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It's a red -letter day in Albany, New
York.
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The line outside the Palace Theater
wrapped around three blocks.
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His Holiness, the Dalai Lama, the
spiritual leader of Tibet, has traveled
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miles to Albany.
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With him on stage are Claire and Sarah
Brothman.
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And in the front row, Keith Raniere and
Nancy Salzman, the leaders of NXIVM. It
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is a spectacular public relations coup.
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Maybe he really is a guru.
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But it almost doesn't happen.
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The headlines announcing his visit are
quickly followed by headlines calling
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NXIVM... Cult -like.
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Several local venues refuse to host the
event.
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His Holiness reads the papers too, and
he abruptly cancels.
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Inside NXIVM, the problems go deeper.
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Nine of its longest -serving members,
including Angela Ucci, say the
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organization has lost its way.
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There was sexual stuff. There was
business stuff. There was secrecy.
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And not unlike consumers byline more
than a decade ago, many say they are not
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being paid to the tune of more than $2
million.
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They owed us commission money. They owed
me trainer money.
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Uchi and the others decide to confront
Ranieri.
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And they record the whole thing.
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But what I'm trying to say, though,
Keith, is that we believe that there are
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certain problems.
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Ranieri does not take it well.
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I've been shot at because of my beliefs.
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I've had to make choices. Should I have
bodyguards? Should I have them armed or
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not?
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I've had people killed because of my
beliefs.
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I think what he was doing is he was
being a peacock like he is, being, you
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how great I am and how big I am and how
important I am.
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Let's be honest, if he had anyone
killed, do you think he would have said
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a meeting to all of us?
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The women decide they have no choice but
to quit.
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The highest ranking defectors yet.
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They come to be known as the NXIVM -9.
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And if they don't get their money, they
will go to the press.
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But Keith Raniere isn't worried.
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The Dalai Lama has agreed to come after
all, after Raniere leads a delegation to
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see him.
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I believe it was three people, including
one Bronfman.
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Within days of the event, a new charity
appears in New York State, the Dalai
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Lama Trust.
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His office does not respond to American
Greed, but issued a statement in 2018
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saying no money changed hands.
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Regardless. NXIVM is raking it in with
new programs tailored specifically for
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women, for men, for children, even for
actors.
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They include Allison Mack, known for
TV's Smallville, and Canadian actress
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Sarah Edmondson.
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I was immediately scooped up by the
higher ranks as family.
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And I felt like I met the people that I
was going to be working with to change
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the world.
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Another actress, Catherine Oxenberg,
from the 1980s TV hit Dynasty, takes
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classes along with her daughter, India,
who declines American Greed's request
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for an interview.
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Catherine finds all the new programs
suspicious.
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I started to smell a rat. It was like,
this...
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was just a way for them to make more
money.
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The rat she's smelling may be Ranieri.
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I didn't like that they idolized this
guy, Keith Ranieri.
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Everything was, thank you, Vanguard.
Even though the guy wasn't in the room,
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was like the Wizard of Oz.
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But India Oxenberg is hooked.
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Next on American Greed.
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Everything in my body said, get out.
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Vanguard leads NXIVM down a horrifying
path.
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You can do a lot of crazy in this
country. You cannot brand people.
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Nine of Keith Raniere's most faithful
followers have quit NXIVM.
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They are among the few who know the
organization's deepest secrets.
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For Secrets of NXIVM to come out, they
have to come out from within.
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In 2012, with help from the NXIVM 9, the
Albany Times Union publishes a
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blockbuster four -part series called
Secrets of NXIVM.
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There are allegations of psychological
abuse, even a suicide.
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The paper also posts video interviews
online.
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Nothing is done without his okay.
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From how you dress to what you eat,
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what your weight is, decisions you make.
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Tony Natale, Ranieri's ex -girlfriend
from the 90s who left in the early years
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of NXIVM, tells the paper that she now
believes that even back then,
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NXIVM was no self -help organization.
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Are you among the critics of NXIVM and
Keith Raniere, who believe that he is
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leader of a cult?
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Yes.
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Most explosive of all, the series
alleges that Raniere, who is 51 at the
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has a long history of sexual
relationships with underage girls.
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Gina Melita tells the paper that her
relationship with Ranieri began when he
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24 and she was just 15.
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It seemed okay to my 15 -year -old mind
at first.
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He knew, he was like, well, we obviously
can't tell your mother about this.
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Ranieri does not respond to the paper's
requests for an interview, nor does he
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respond to American Greed.
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You figured it was just a matter of time
before the bottom dropped out of it,
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but that's not what happened.
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Instead, Ranieri seems emboldened, and
his remaining followers are more devoted
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than ever.
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Allison Mack from the TV series
Smallville has gone in big, recording
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videos with Vanguard.
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When someone's being authentic, you get
the feeling that you reach into their
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very essence and you meet a unique
individual.
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I don't know why, it makes me want to
cry.
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It's beautiful.
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In 2015, Mack and Lauren Salzman,
daughter of NXIVM co -founder Nancy
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helped create a new society exclusively
for NXIVM women to be known as DOS.
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Actress Sarah Edmondson is among
Lauren's recruits.
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She told me it was an international
women's group that would be totally
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underground and a group of women working
together to be a force for good in the
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world.
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In order to be considered for
membership, women must first hand over
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called collateral, blackmail -worthy
material, nude photos, and damaging
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information.
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And this is all for you to really
commit.
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It is a strange brand of women's
empowerment.
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Allison Mack and Lauren Salzman are
considered masters.
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Their recruits, like Sarah, are referred
to as slaves.
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Members are kept on starvation diets, as
little as 500 calories a day.
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Slaves must be available to their
masters at a moment's notice, 24 hours a
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So women have to learn how to humiliate
themselves, each other.
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DOS is not a women's empowerment group
at all.
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The name is an acronym for a Latin
phrase, Dominus Obsequius Sororium,
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translated, Master over the obedient
women.
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DOS slaves are expected to recruit
slaves of their own. It is yet another
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pyramid. And sitting at the top,
unbeknownst to the women until after
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is Keith Raniere.
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Keith and Allison, what's the text?
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There is one final sign of devotion,
which Raniere describes to Allison Mack
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during a morning walk through the
neighborhood, January 9th, 2016.
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Doing the actual brand in an orderly
fashion.
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In keeping with NXIVM policy to preserve
every utterance of Vanguard, Mack
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records the conversation.
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Authorities will later tease the audio
as evidence.
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It probably should be a more vulnerable
position.
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The women are to be stripped nude and in
a solemn ceremony, branded in their
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pelvic area with a cauterizing pen.
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And the person should ask to be branded.
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If they please brand me, it would be an
honor or something like that.
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Everything in my body is a get.
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Out. Get out of here.
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Sarah Edmondson is brought blindfolded
to the home of Allison Mack, where
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Salzman leads the ceremony.
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Sarah says that years of NXIVM
indoctrination suppress her instincts to
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That, and the blackmail, and the women
holding her down.
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And I just went somewhere else.
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And I didn't even move.
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I breathed, I cried.
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I went to a loving place.
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And it was the only way I was able to
get through it.
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00:34:12,159 --> 00:34:14,699
We know the depth of our love through
pain.
461
00:34:18,219 --> 00:34:21,320
Some 50 women are drawn into DOS.
462
00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:27,299
Among them, 25 -year -old India
Oxenberg, daughter of TV star Catherine
463
00:34:27,300 --> 00:34:32,520
Oxenberg, who learns about DOS when a
friend of India's calls to warn her.
464
00:34:33,150 --> 00:34:38,509
These girls were all part of this inner
circle, and that they were recruiting
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00:34:38,510 --> 00:34:42,049
other women to have sex with Keith. I
mean, all this stuff, I was, like,
466
00:34:42,050 --> 00:34:43,100
spinning.
467
00:34:44,810 --> 00:34:46,730
India, too, has been branded.
468
00:34:49,650 --> 00:34:54,589
Catherine calls blogger and former NXIVM
consultant Frank Parlato and tells him
469
00:34:54,590 --> 00:34:55,640
what she knows.
470
00:34:55,730 --> 00:34:59,810
Sort of a light bulb went off in my
head, and now you know I think I've got
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00:35:02,060 --> 00:35:07,159
Frank Parlato is the first to reveal the
existence of DOS and the branding
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00:35:07,160 --> 00:35:10,300
ritual in a blog post in June of 2017.
473
00:35:12,500 --> 00:35:15,900
Called Branded Slaves and Master
Raniere.
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00:35:16,380 --> 00:35:20,760
You can do a lot of crazy in this
country. You cannot brand people.
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00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:27,419
In Parlato's blog post, the victims are
anonymous. The women of DOS keep their
476
00:35:27,420 --> 00:35:28,470
vow of silence.
477
00:35:28,640 --> 00:35:30,160
That is about to change.
478
00:35:31,660 --> 00:35:35,559
They had been told that the symbol
burned into their flesh represents the
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00:35:35,560 --> 00:35:41,079
elements. Instead, they learned it is
formed from the initials of Keith
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00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:42,940
and Allison Mack.
481
00:35:43,980 --> 00:35:48,779
It's not okay to hurt a woman's body.
It's not okay to carve someone else's
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00:35:48,780 --> 00:35:50,900
initials into someone else's flesh.
483
00:35:51,780 --> 00:35:54,190
Branding means you are owned by another
person.
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00:35:55,440 --> 00:36:00,040
On October 18th, Sarah Edmondson is the
first DOS woman to go public.
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00:36:01,040 --> 00:36:03,320
On the front page of the New York Times.
486
00:36:04,340 --> 00:36:07,600
We began interviewing witnesses within
days.
487
00:36:08,680 --> 00:36:10,500
When American Greed returns.
488
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:14,860
We have somebody who is a danger to
society.
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00:36:15,500 --> 00:36:17,680
Bringing Vanguard to justice.
490
00:36:18,240 --> 00:36:21,180
But first, you have to catch him.
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00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:39,099
Keith Raniere's Secret Society of NXIVM
Women has been exposed in a front -page
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00:36:39,100 --> 00:36:40,540
article in the New York Times.
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00:36:43,820 --> 00:36:50,119
It is October of 2017, and Assistant U
.S. Attorney Moira Penza in Brooklyn
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00:36:50,120 --> 00:36:52,280
takes an immediate interest.
495
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:58,639
It was within days of the Harvey
Weinstein story breaking. We were within
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00:36:58,640 --> 00:37:00,680
of the hashtag MeToo movement.
497
00:37:01,420 --> 00:37:07,479
All of us were really taking a hard look
at men in positions of power and abuses
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00:37:07,480 --> 00:37:08,530
of that power.
499
00:37:10,200 --> 00:37:13,280
But Keith Raniere isn't sticking around
to reflect.
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00:37:15,640 --> 00:37:17,900
Instead, he votes for the border.
501
00:37:19,420 --> 00:37:23,920
Once he's in Mexico, there's the concern
that he really will go off the grid.
502
00:37:25,960 --> 00:37:28,760
Finally, in March, they track him down.
503
00:37:29,710 --> 00:37:36,109
Keith Raniere was in this $10 ,000 a
week villa in Puerto Vallarta,
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00:37:36,110 --> 00:37:38,850
by these women.
505
00:37:40,330 --> 00:37:43,750
Allison Mack is there. So is Lauren
Salzman.
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00:37:44,770 --> 00:37:48,710
There are plans in the evening for a
recommitment ceremony.
507
00:37:49,490 --> 00:37:52,990
NXIVM talk, apparently for group sex.
508
00:37:54,330 --> 00:37:58,310
Until the agenda is rudely interrupted
by Mexican police.
509
00:37:59,900 --> 00:38:05,919
Keith Raniere has holed himself up in a
closet, protecting himself, while Lauren
510
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:11,000
Saltzman is made to interact with the
federales.
511
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:16,079
That whole arresting really is an
example of everything we know about
512
00:38:16,080 --> 00:38:21,280
Raniere, because here he is, this
renunciate, and where is he? He's in a
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00:38:21,900 --> 00:38:25,819
What is he doing? Is he being brave? Is
he this leader? No, he's hiding in a
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00:38:25,820 --> 00:38:26,870
closet.
515
00:38:27,850 --> 00:38:33,530
At the same time in Albany, FBI agents
descend on NXIVM's suburban subdivision,
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00:38:33,550 --> 00:38:34,630
gathering evidence.
517
00:38:36,370 --> 00:38:41,230
Ranieri is returned to New York, where a
judge orders him held without bail.
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00:38:41,630 --> 00:38:46,710
He is charged with multiple felonies,
including sex trafficking, forced labor,
519
00:38:46,890 --> 00:38:48,370
and criminal conspiracy.
520
00:38:50,390 --> 00:38:52,190
Were you involved in a sex cult?
521
00:38:52,770 --> 00:38:53,820
Allison Mack.
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00:38:54,160 --> 00:38:58,400
and Lauren Salzman plead guilty to
racketeering and racketeering
523
00:38:59,380 --> 00:39:04,379
Mexium co -founder Nancy Salzman pleads
guilty to a single count of racketeering
524
00:39:04,380 --> 00:39:09,239
conspiracy. Claire Brockman pleads
guilty to a single count of conspiracy
525
00:39:09,240 --> 00:39:12,360
harbor an illegal immigrant and one
count of identity fraud.
526
00:39:12,720 --> 00:39:15,440
She denies knowing anything about Doss.
527
00:39:16,300 --> 00:39:18,820
Her sister, Sarah, is not charged.
528
00:39:19,640 --> 00:39:23,020
None respond to American Greed's
requests for interviews.
529
00:39:23,950 --> 00:39:28,670
Dozens more NXIVM members defect, among
them India Oxenberg.
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00:39:30,490 --> 00:39:34,550
In May of 2019, Keith Raniere goes to
trial.
531
00:39:34,790 --> 00:39:35,840
His defense?
532
00:39:36,310 --> 00:39:41,370
Everything, including the starvation and
the branding, is consensual.
533
00:39:41,590 --> 00:39:48,509
This is basically a case, as odd as it
sounds, about how grown adults are
534
00:39:48,510 --> 00:39:49,810
intimate with each other.
535
00:39:51,370 --> 00:39:55,769
But in six weeks of testimony, the
prosecution paints a picture of a man
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00:39:55,770 --> 00:39:59,210
claims to be a genius, yet nearly flunks
out of college.
537
00:40:00,170 --> 00:40:04,430
Who preaches empowerment, but practices
something different.
538
00:40:05,250 --> 00:40:07,550
And the person should ask to be branded.
539
00:40:09,590 --> 00:40:12,970
Jurors hear Raniere's own words about
the branding ritual.
540
00:40:14,470 --> 00:40:19,150
And they should probably say that before
they're held down.
541
00:40:19,920 --> 00:40:22,540
It doesn't seem like they're being
coerced. Okay.
542
00:40:23,800 --> 00:40:27,600
It takes only five hours for the jury to
reach its verdict.
543
00:40:27,940 --> 00:40:32,939
And when Ranieri walked into the
courtroom, the very first thing he said,
544
00:40:32,940 --> 00:40:36,520
audible in the court was, this is not
justice.
545
00:40:39,040 --> 00:40:44,300
The jury finds Ranieri guilty on seven
counts, among them racketeering,
546
00:40:44,340 --> 00:40:48,340
including sexual exploitation of a child
and sex trafficking.
547
00:40:49,000 --> 00:40:52,360
Oh, my God, it's final. It is final.
548
00:40:52,580 --> 00:40:54,940
Like, it all counts.
549
00:40:56,020 --> 00:41:01,219
Minutes ago, a federal jury here in the
Eastern District of New York returned
550
00:41:01,220 --> 00:41:06,880
verdicts convicting Keith Raniere on all
counts in his federal indictment.
551
00:41:07,600 --> 00:41:14,259
I felt just such an enormous
responsibility to these women that
552
00:41:14,260 --> 00:41:16,080
it was just...
553
00:41:16,300 --> 00:41:21,900
a wave of relief and feeling that I have
done right by them.
554
00:41:22,420 --> 00:41:29,280
Silence is what gives powerful people
the ability to commit abuses.
555
00:41:29,700 --> 00:41:36,399
Any example where people are able to be
heard and to
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00:41:36,400 --> 00:41:42,679
then have somebody actually face
repercussions, that is
557
00:41:42,680 --> 00:41:44,560
how we can break.
558
00:41:45,120 --> 00:41:46,280
that cycle of abuse.
559
00:41:47,460 --> 00:41:54,160
Keith Raniere's crime spree has ended,
and his victims will finally see
560
00:41:56,760 --> 00:41:58,540
In September 2020,
561
00:41:59,400 --> 00:42:02,590
Claire Bronfman was sentenced to nearly
seven years in prison.
562
00:42:03,100 --> 00:42:09,759
A month later, in October 2020, Keith
Raniere was sentenced to 120 years
563
00:42:09,760 --> 00:42:10,810
bars.
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00:42:12,890 --> 00:42:17,769
India Oxenberg ultimately broke away
from NXIVM and spoke out about
565
00:42:17,770 --> 00:42:21,070
the pain she endured while under
Ranieri's spell.
566
00:42:21,690 --> 00:42:25,789
We all have metaphorical scars. I have a
physical scar, but you don't have to
567
00:42:25,790 --> 00:42:29,329
live with that. You don't have to live
with Keith Ranieri haunting you. You can
568
00:42:29,330 --> 00:42:33,430
reclaim your life. You can learn from
it, and you can move on.
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00:42:33,480 --> 00:42:38,030
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