Re-posting here since it was posted late on the last thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3738118/posts?page=1791#1791
NXIVM update.
I’ll try and catch up a little on NXIVM news from over the weekend and late last week. Lots of motions and a few rulings accompany some juicy prognostications.
1. We already know that Lauren Salzman took a guilty plea last week, joining her mother, Nancy, as one of two plea deals so far.
2. Allison Mack, the harem leader of the DOS sex-slave cult that branded women with a surgical cauterizer on their privates, asked the judge to delay the trial to give her more time to negotiate a plea deal. The judge rejected the request and the trial remains scheduled for late April. Although court watchers believe there will be other delays.
https://pix11.com/2019/03/30/judge-denies-smallvilles-allison-mack-more-time-to-negotiate-plea-bargain-in-sex-slave-trial/
3. Rich, nasty, woman, Clare Bronfman confirmed for the judge that Michael Avenatti was a ‘consultant’ for her case, but he has been fired.
https://nypost.com/2019/03/28/clare-bronfman-says-she-fired-avenatti-found-geragos-instead-online-for-nxivm-trial/
4. Judge George Garaufis (Clinton-appointed) explained in no uncertain terms that Clare-Bear could lose her lead attorney, Mark Garagos, due to the fact that he is “Co-conspirator #1” in the Avenatti Fraud and Extortion cases. Clare said she understands and accepts the risk. [looks to me her team might be setting up for a mistrial-type strategy if or when Garagos has to leave the case]
- no link, this info is in the other articles above.
5. It appears that the only defendants not in negotiations are Clare Bronfman, Keith Raniere, and Nancy Russel. Although Clare, Nancy and Allison have all asked for their trials to be held separate from Raniere, the judge hasn’t ruled on that yet. The reason for the separate trial request is because of the recently updated charges against Raniere that include a number of child sex counts. The other defendants feels that Keith’s repulsive actions will prejudice the jury. I’m left scratching my head because the others were all INVOLVED to some extent in the child sex activities of the cult. The new news is that the Eastern District of NY (EDNY) prosecutors are now saying there is a lack of venue for the child-related charges in EDNY. This means those charges, aguably the worst along with the branding, could be tried in another venue. Which may bring us to...(6)
6. If the judge grants severance of the child exploitation and porn charges, there is a good chance prosecution will go to the Northern District of NY (NDNY) which is where the alleged offenses took place. In previous years, the NDNY clearly ignored investigating the cult. Now, however, the lead prosecutor there is Trump-appointed US Attorney Grant Jaquith. If, if, if. I think chances are good that Jaquith will take on the case and we’ll get a glimpse into the rancid underbelly of upstate politics in Albany.
https://frankreport.com/2019/03/30/breaking-news-two-trials-in-the-bornfman-raniere-case-northern-district-to-take-up-nxivm-starting-with-child-porn-and-child-exploitation-investigation-may-widen/
7. Whew! Finally, to get an idea of the TANGLED web of legal representation in this trial, here’s a run on sentence summary of the next linked article. Clare Bronfman set up a trust to pay legal fees for all defendants which is running out of money and she says she won’t ‘re-stock’ the trust if it goes broke but other (unnamed) people are contributing to the trust but she’s paying Raniere’s legal fees (and hers) out of her own account and Clare’s head lawyer is Mark Geragos who is likely to be in criminal jeopardy in the Southern District of NY due his ties to the Avenatti case and Mark’s daughter, Teny Geragos, is the head lawyer for Raniere and both Geragos’ work at the same law firm where the senior partner would represent Mark Geragos if he is charged in Avenatii’s trial....and that’s just the tip of the iceberg for the potential conflicts of interest.
https://frankreport.com/2019/03/29/rainieres-curcio-hearing-judge-gives-him-plenty-of-warnings-tells-lawyers-they-will-need-more-than-500-potential-jurors-to-find-unbiased-jury/
That’s enough for now, and pretty well catches us up to this morning. More rulings are expected in the coming days.
If part of the trial moves to NDNY, they are free to add more charges based on whatever they uncover in their investigation. That’s when we might see some fireworks with financial ties to the many, many, dem politicians NXIVM hung out with.
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