This is Part 6 of Lauren Salzman: Cross-Examination Stopped by Judge. and this is at a time when you and Keith are still talking about you possibly having children in the spring of 2016; correct? Q So here you are, listening to Keith talk to these women about DOS and the creation of DOS, youre not there, and youre listening to these recordings; correct? And thats really what this was. if(typeof(jQuery)=="function"){(function($){$.fn.fitVids=function(){}})(jQuery)}; This is not the allegations. At one point, Raniere asked Danis mother, Adriana, to stay confined to a room adjacent to Danis, as a way to make it clear to Daniela that her actions were affecting other people close to her, Salzman testified. Around that same time, one former DOS slave and a longtime friend of Salzmans, Sarah Edmondson, left the group after discovering that the DOS brand was not some badass empowerment symbol, but actually Ranieres initials. During that period, Salzman acted as Danis only liaison with the outside world, delivering apologetic letters that she wrote to Raniere few of which, Salzman testified, he actually read. I am not trying to argue with you. https://static.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/silicone-baby-avatar-babyclon-1.jpg. Then Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis rose. Q But you know that now because the Government gave you the recordings to listen to of the meetings that you werent in? a fish hole. [she is alternately tearing up and holding back tears.]. Everything they were talking about is stuff that we talked about in DOS and that I knew already when I listened to that, except the fact that there were the seven of them and they planned to stay, the seven of them. Her mother Nancy Salzman, 66, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 8. Contact Frank with tips or for help. there is going to be the part of DOS that other people know and then theres going to be this other secret sex part of DOS where were going to get slaves to pleasure us that was not what I signed up for. She had faced 14 to 17 1/2 years for working as Ranieres right-hand woman to lure victims into DOS. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved, Appeals court upholds sentences for NXIVM sex cult leaders, Nxivm sex cult leader Keith Raniere claims prison transfer puts his life at risk, Nxivm leader Keith Raniere claims feds conspiring against him with hermaphrodite cellmate, Nxivm leader complains fellow sex trafficker left him dizzy after prison beatdown, keeping a woman named Daniela captive in a room, was slapped with six years and nine months behind bars. And before Im a judge, Im a human being. TRANSCRIPT of Proceedings as to Keith Raniere, Allison Mack, Clare Bronfman, Kathy Russell, Lauren Salzman, Nancy Salzman held on September 18, 2018, before Judge Scanlon. Master, please brand me, it would be an honor, an honor I want to wear for the rest of my life, she testified, according to the New York Times, detailing how Ranieres initials were branded onto her hip. The branding ceremony took place in 2017 inside a house near Albany, where female members of the so-called cult Nxivm . A I knew they had a relationship. So thats like just one example. Theyll testify again. 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Who cares whether she had convinced herself at the time that it was not illegal or illegal but allowed or whatever. NEW YORK (AP) After weeks of relentlessly lurid testimony, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn on Friday wrapped up their sex trafficking case against Keith Raniere, . Q In terms of you and your slaves, that didnt happen, right?, A My personal knowledge of what was going on in the other [slave] groups, based on what the women were sharing . Salzman, along with former TV actress Allison Mack and others, was part of 60-year-old Ranieres circle of first-line masters who helped to command the group. Lauren Salzman, daughter of the group . According to Salzmans testimony, he and Dani reached an agreement that she would be confined in a room in a home she shared with her parents, with no communication with the outside world; if she did not agree to these terms, Salzman testified, she would have to go back to Mexico. It kills me that I hurt people that I loved so much, a teary Salzman told the court. They were also told to seduce Raniere, a task that Salzman referred to as the Assignment. Salzman claimed not to have known about the Assignment until Mack mentioned that slaves she had recruited were having sex with Raniere. Q you were still holding out hope, as of June 2016 when these conversations [2016] are taking place [with the other first-line DOS slaves] these meetings between Keith and these other women, [at this time] you are still holding out hope that you might end up with Keith? And you let Raniere and the others do what they did, even after I repeatedly begged you for help., The judge said that while Salzman had helped Raniere commit his harmful schemes and other sadistic and sexual deviant visions, she was also a victim of [his] depravity.. Parlato has been prominently featured on HBOs docuseries The Vow and was the lead investigator and coordinating producer for Investigation Discoverys The Lost Women of NXIVM. In addition, he was credited in the Starz docuseries 'Seduced' for saving 'slave' women from being branded and escaping the sex-slave cult known as DOS. The account of Ranieres arrest capped off the highly revealing direct testimony of Salzman, who has pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and racketeering conspiracy. Redirect? We would take the naked picture, and everyone would take the number of whips commensurate with our failures, she said. At the end before the jury leaves when the Judge says you are done, Agnifilo says, I know I am done. Therefore the defense had concluded by his own words that the questioning was over. The Government didnt teach me that. Isnt the world better off without a Ratchild? Salzman is a former high-ranking member of NXIVM and former partner and confidante of Raniere. You made your points. A top "slave master" in the alleged sex cult Nxivm said in testimony on Friday she herself was sexually and psychologically enslaved by Keith Raniere, . Terrified, she called out Ranieres name, only for him to emerge from a walk-in closet next to the bedroom. AGNIFILO: Judge? The 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time Q Keith had a child with Kristin Keefe; right? C-SPAN's operating revenues come from license fees paid by cable systems and satellite companies that offer the network to their. And I didnt have a problem. Resolved: Release in which this issue/RFE has been resolved. THE COURT: We have been through this. A Well, yes. She pleaded guilty to only racketeering conspiracy, and was the. {"vloc":"auto","floating":true,"playlist":"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/feeds\/c132tQIF.json","ph":2} Salzman, a former member of NXIVM leader Keith Raniere's Read More FILE - This Oct. 4, 2018 photo shows Lauren Salzman as she leaves Brooklyn Federal Court in New York. Were you doing it to scare them? Q But youve read the chats between Keith and Cami? The jury was dismissed. The 200 Greatest Singers of All Time THE COURT: I took her guilty plea, sir. A I knew there was some project that they were working on at one point in time. Everyone rises for the jury. I wanted to put the available transcripts from Keith Raniere's trial all in one place, for my own organizational purposes. Crime News is your destination for true crime stories from around the world, breaking crime news, and information about Oxygen's original true crime shows and documentaries. Raniere had fled to Mexico the year before, following a damning New York Times report that he was the grandmaster of DOS, a NXIVM offshoot and secret all-female sorority of masters and slaves. Allegedly run by Raniere, the group reportedly had branded women, forced them to provide collateral in the form of explicit naked photos, and coerced them into having sex with him. I misheard the answer. Former Nxivm slave master Lauren Salzman who admitted to keeping a woman captive for nearly two years during her stint as a high-ranking member in the upstate sex cult dodged jail time at her sentencing on Wednesday. She said she could not sit with the defense and continue to lie. His work to expose and take down NXIVM is featured in books like Captive by Catherine Oxenberg, Scarred by Sarah Edmonson, The Program by Toni Natalie, and NXIVM. He called in and wanted to make sure we were flicking the wrist hard enough, Salzman said. In it, she apologized for having disrespected him and for damaging her own reputation as a group leader, as well as that of their theoretical child, someone who doesnt even exist yet. But Raniere was unmoved, dealing her a final blow, Salzman testified, when he revealed that he would be fathering a child with another longtime girlfriend. A I had concerns that it was problematic and I chose to go with what Keith said. Also, as far as proving that Lauren Salzman didnt really think she was guilty of anything-(which is what Agnifilo seemed to be trying to prove). According to NXIVM senior member Lauren Salzman, at the start of NXIVM meetings, the women described as "slaves" offered a tribute to Raniere. That's led to speculation she may cooperate. And it says something about the utter STUPIDITY of Lauren Salzman that it takes the Mexican Police pointing machine guns at her head to begin to wake her up. Related This is especially true where, as here, there was not a pending question (here, the witness was allowed to answer the last question). Cookie Notice THE COURT: All right, the witness is excused. The whole time, I kept thinking, They could shoot in this door,' she said. Lauren Salzman, Nxivm cult member who secretly pleaded guilty last week Salzman's guilty plea last Monday did not appear on any public calendar, and portions of the transcript are. Its all there, its on the record. I stayed with Keith despite all the other [sexual] relationships, and that was something that he could have been honest with me about, and mischaracterizing and making me feel sorry for him because his life is so hard because we lost our friends and I cant get my shit together is not what was going on. Trial testimony showed surveillance cameras were set up outside the room and the woman wrote letters almost daily asking for forgiveness. A I just listened to these recordings the day before yesterday for the first time. But Im telling you, I was watching this witness. Q I think you said on direct examination that you thought Keith changed when Pam passed away? A Yes. I mean, one of my concerns though is that Keith was not being honest with me about what was going on, and he was mischaracterizing things and making promises to me that were influencing my life decisions when I could have gone in other ways and was expressing that I wanted to. There would be a cage for the people who were most committed to growth, Salzman testified. I am the one who is disappointed. Q And she just left like one day. During that period, Salzman acted as Danis only liaison with the outside world, delivering apologetic letters that she wrote to Raniere few of which, Salzman testified, he actually read. It was illegal extortion, as she realizes now and as she recounted in her guilty plea. And when I found that I had done things that I believe are wrongful, and also criminal, I did exactly what Keith taught me to do, which is take responsibility for and figure out how to fix it. C-SPAN receives no funding from any government. Q You learned about these meetings for the first time when the Government gave you these recordings to listen to? Sir, I have a right and an obligation to control the extent to which something like this is put to a witness and you had that opportunity. I'm very PACER illiterate, I wish I could help you otherwise! I was very upset, she said. He simply didnt have much to work with. Next question. Earlier today, in federal court in Brooklyn, Nancy Salzman, also known as "Prefect," the former president and co-founder of Nxivm, was sentenced to 42 months' imprisonment and ordered to pay a $150,000 fine by United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis for racketeering conspiracy, including predicate acts of conspiracy to commit identity When she finally left in February 2012, she was driven to the Mexican border by her father and another NXIVM member, who refused to give her immigration papers; in a series of emails read during the trial, when she begged for her papers back, NXIVM officials refused, accusing her of being manipulative and playing games., Of all the things I did in this case and all the crimes that were committed, this was the worst thing I did, she said, sobbing. That it will be done. The feds will try him again, but he may not have the benefit of the Seagrams millions to help with his defense. The Version table provides details related to the release that this issue/RFE will be addressed. I'm been addicted to reading every single thing related to NXIVM in the past two weeks. She was supposed to be sentenced in 2019, and could face up to twenty years behind bars for her part in NXIVM. Agnifilo states, he was done. Judge, can we have a sidebar? (AP Photo/Mary. And you betrayed us. So you have your record, and if there is a conviction, you can appeal my decision to the Second Circuit, okay? The trial transcripts offer by far the most gripping (and soul-crushing) account for sure. There would be a cage for the people who were most committed to growth,'' Salzman testified. In response to the bad press surrounding NXIVM, Raniere went into damage control mode. She probably provided the most damning piece of evidence in this case. And if I made a mistake, then you will have your opportunity if you should not be successful in gaining your clients acquittal, and Im just going to leave it at that. Salzman reluctantly agreed to these conditions, as she desperately wanted to have a child. Q Now, you just said when you found out that you did things that were criminal, did you intend to do things that were criminal as you did them? . A My intention was to prove to Keith that I was not so far below the ethical standard that he holds that I was I dont even know how far below I am. The daughter of group cofounder Nancy Salzman, who has pleaded guilty to a single charge of racketeering conspiracy, Salzman, 42, began her testimony last week describing her first meeting with Raniere in 1998, when she was 21 years old. Salzman said she was once a slave master in the cult, according to the New York Post. Agnifilo clearly says he was done. At one point, Raniere asked Danis mother, Adriana, to stay confined to a room adjacent to Danis, as a way to make it clear to Daniela that her actions were affecting other people close to her, Salzman testified. And I am not going to allow someone to be placed in this circumstance and then let it continue. But what was more troubling is not that they had a relationship it was Keiths consistent misrepresentations of things he made promises to me that I gave up real other opportunities of things that I wanted and he knew that I wanted, and he didnt fulfill those promises Keith said, in the curriculum, that ultimately we want to make our words so strong, like so strong that when we tell people we will do something, it will be done. get it? But what I had here was, I had a crisis here. ( Lauren Salzman is accused of "coaching" and controlling Daniela during her imprisonment.) Despite the negative media attention swarming around the group, the understanding among DOS members was that they would participate in a recommitment ceremony, pledging their allegiance to Raniere which, as Salzman later testified, was assumed to mean group sex. When a Judge cuts you off from examining a witness, you have one, and only one job: create a record. I havent read through all of them, but out of what I read I found Lauren Salzmans the most heartbreakingand most illuminating. Marc Agnifilo begins to try to elicit from Lauren the possibility that she was upset by what she learned in discovery after she was indicted that might have led her to turn away from Raniere and prompted her to change her view about him post facto. Yet she tried to remain calm. I harmed Daniela I completely failed her., The hearing included victim-impact statements from two former Nxivm members, including Ivy Nevares, who said Salzman never apologized for using her position and skills to try to force me to accept my exploitation and to do so with a smile., You called yourself my best friend, you were a fellow woman, yet you did what you did, she said. But most of my first-line DOS masters were telling me things that were gravely concerning to me that they were doing. What am I doing wrong? She had been on the floor and he had kicked her, Salzman recounted Padilla telling her. A I did not do that. She doesnt want a child with KAR, who cant even keep it up enough to even shoot blanks LOL. "I believed Keith Raniere's intentions were to help people, and I was wrong," Mack told a judge while pleading guilty to racketeering charges. This is so great! Oh wow- definitely good to know! document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Thanks for contacting us. I agree. CA. Around that same time, one former DOS slave and a longtime friend of Salzmans, Sarah Edmondson, left the group after discovering that the DOS brand was not some badass empowerment symbol, but actually Ranieres initials. actress Nicki Clyne, had flown to Mexico to visit Raniere. Unresolved: Release in which this issue/RFE will be addressed. Salzman, the former president and co-founder of NXIVM, was sentenced Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, to 42 months in prison and fined $150,000, but won't be locked up until January. Move on. At the time, Salzman was thrilled, but when Raniere refused to get a blood test, she started to realize his true intent was to keep me doing what I was doing better than anybody else at the time, which was going out and legitimizing [DOS], she testified. May 7, 2019: first day of the trial; includes opening statements (Tanya Hajjar for the prosecution, Marc Agnifilo for the defense) and the beginning of the first witness testimony, by Sylvie [last name redacted by order of the court], a DOS "slave" under Monica Duran, May 8, 2019: continuation of Sylvie's testimony; start of Mark Vicente's testimony, May 9, 2019: Mark Vicente testimony, continued, May 13, 2019: Mark Vicente testimony, continued, May 14, 2019: no witnesses, just proceedings, May 15, 2019: Mark Vicente testimony, continued, May 16, 2019: Mark Vicente, Stephen Herbits, Charles Fontanelli, May 17, 2019: Charles Fontanelli, Sean Welch, Lauren Salzman, May 28, 2019: Daniela [last name redacted], May 29, 2019: Daniela [last name redacted], continued, June 5, 2019: James Loperfido, Maegan Rees, June 6, 2019: Maegan Rees continued, Dawn Hughes, Nicole [last name redacted], June 7, 2019: Nicole [last name redacted], continued. The links no longer appear to work. Lauren Salzman is a name that you'll hear prominently in the unraveling of the self-help group NXIVM. God, do l ever loathe Keith. Was Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis right to halt the cross-examination of Lauren Salzman? A . Hes been convicted. Q So the Government plays these recordings for you; right? A Yes. According to Salzmans testimony, he immediately instructed all of the DOS first-line slaves to deny that Raniere had any knowledge of DOS, and that the women had branded themselves of their own volition. Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist. In response, Salzman sent him a seven-page letter recounting all the ways she was behaving inappropriately. Do you think you can do some articles about how they got involved, why they were allowed into Keiths inner circle, and what crimes they committed or may have committed. As far as Laurens being stupid, she doesnt come off as stupid at all. She also told the judge that she kept the woman captive from March 2010 to April 2012 while [threatening] to deport Jane Doe 4 back to Mexico if she did not complete labor requested by myself and others.. Salzman, a former . THE COURT: No, we cant have a sidebar. I am worried about her composure in this case, the judge explained to an apparently perplexed Mark []. And then he characterized the reasons for why he didnt uphold his word to me as being because it was so difficult that two of our best friends died of terminal illnesses [Pam Cafritz and Barbara Jeske] and the void that that left in our community, and how much extra work fell on him and how hard its been because of all of our failures and ineptitudes and the political situation.
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