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A little NXIVM news.

If you do any Googling on this (and NXIVM is certainly a word designed for Google!) you get a bunch of Hollywood dreck. The salacious details are interesting, but not really what we are after.

Article titled Allison Mack: Actress Reveals NXIVM Sex Cult’s Disturbing Teachings on the "Heroic Hollywood" web site we learn that actress Catherine Oxenberg has a book coming out next week called Captive: A Mother’s Crusade to Save Her Daughter from a Terrifying Cult.

The upcoming book release is also profiled on Radar Online as NXIVM Sex Cult’s Disturbing Teachings Revealed In Explosive Tell-All

Digging a little deeper on the legal front and we begin to get into the interesting stuff. This site Art View has dedicated itself to covering the NXIVM cult trials, and has a lot of thought provoking details.

Arizona Mafia and NXIVM– Lauren Salzman’s criminal attorneys are from Arizona

The Mexico and Arizona connections for this cult are interesting. They are accused of human smuggling, and that has been reported. The connection with the son of the former President of Mexico has been pretty well covered up though.

I have previously reported that Clare Bronfman retained Arizona lawyer Dennis Burke.
Dennis Burke is connected to the Carlos Salinas organization and considered a top member of the Arizona Mafia.
I also speculated that Dennis’ first consideration in representing Clare would not be to protect Clare but to protect Emiliano Salinas – and if need be he would trade an indictment of Clare to spare Emiliano being charged if he could so arrange it behind the scenes.
Clare has been indicted – Emiliano remains unscathed so far.
But why does Lauren have Arizona attorneys? Because Lauren’s two Arizona lawyers are not licensed to practice in New York they had to make a special application {Pro hac vice] to represent Lauren in New York.
Of course Burke is a fairly common name – perhaps even in Arizona – but could it be more than a coincidence that Clare has a Dennis Burke from Arizona [a staunch Salinas ally] and Lauren has a James Burke – also from Arizona.
Lauren may know far more than we give her credit for – in the Salinas – NXIVM connection and their massive bulk cash smuggling operations. Hence the need to keep her under wraps.
Viva Arizona.

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NXIVM Prosecutions

Name	Crimes	Status	Notes
Keith Raniere	sex trafficking, forced labor.	no bail, Trial: Oct. 1.	Cult Leader
Allison Mack	sex trafficking, forced labor.	Out on $5M bail, Trial: Oct. 1.	"Smallville" actress, Cult 2nd leader
Clare Bronfman	identity theft, money laundering,	out on $100M bail	Bronfman family ties to Clinton
Nancy Salzman	identity theft, money laundering,	Out on Bail, $5m	Cult Co-founder
Lauren Salzman	forced labor, extortion and wire fraud	Out on Bail, $5M	daughter of Nancy
Kathy Russel	identity theft, money laundering,	$25K bail not met, in jail	NXIVM's bookeeper

Notes:
2. All five above also charged with running a criminal racketeering enterprise in the superseding indictment.