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FBI Agents on Tuesday raided the Halfmoon home of NXIVM Corporation co-founder and President Nancy Salzman as part of an ongoing federal investigation of the organization. The raid came the day after NXIVM leader and co-founder Keith Raniere was arrested in Mexico on sex trafficking charges.
The complaint, filed recently in connection with an ongoing federal grand jury investigation being headed by the U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn, alleges that Raniere, known as “The Vanguard,” took part in forming a secretive group within NXIVM. Women in the group said they were coerced into joining a slave-master club and later branded with a design that included the initials of Raniere and Allison Mack, an actress and NXIVM associate who is identified in the complaint as an unnamed co-conspirator.
Per-Brendan Lyons
WASHINGTON — A man has been arrested in connection with about a dozen suspicious packages that have been found beginning Monday evening at military and governmental installations in the D.C. area.
Thanh Cong Phan, 43, was arrested by the FBI and the Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office at his home in Everett, Washington, Monday, the FBI said in a statement Tuesday. He’ll be in court Tuesday afternoon.
The FBI said multiple packages had been sent to Fort Belvoir, Virginia; the Naval Surface Warfare Center, in Dahlgren, Virginia; the CIA, in Langley, Virginia; and Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling and Fort McNair, both in D.C.
The FBI also said that “It is possible that further packages were mailed” to other installations in the area. NBC News justice correspondent Pete Williams told WTOP that a package was found at the Secret Service Tuesday morning.-—Per Rick Massimo