NXIVM Update.
Would you believe the NY Times finally printed a story on Keith Raniere and NXIVM? Titled "Once Idolized, Guru of Nxivm ‘Sex Cult’ to Stand Trial Alone" Naturally, it glosses over any larger connections that we've been looking at, and includes just enough tawdry details to draw their audience's attention. The comments on the article are a mix of tragedy and comedy. Suffice it to say, the comments quickly devolve to Trump-bashing. I think I've found Q's "4-6%"...
The judge has made a ruling whether the prosecution can introduce Raniere's photos of his then 15-year old rape victim. They can introduce the photos as evidence of predicate acts related to his current charges.* Note, the child crimes are NOT being prosecuted in this trial. Once this trial is over, we would anticipate that this evidence will be used by the Northern District of NY, where the crimes occurred, in a follow-on trial against Raniere and others.
*Note: while I was composing this, the article linked above now shows a 404 error. Also, all stories on the Frank Report website after April 30, have disappeared. In case it's just a hiccup, I'm leaving the link above even though it goes nowhere at the moment.
Here is another article that discusses the ruling.
Judge Garaufis will need to rule on three more topics before trial starts on Tuesday. First, whether NXIVM corporation can assert attorney-client privilege. Clare Bronfman and Nancy Salzman are still on the board of directors. If they try to assert privilege, I can imagine the judge will consider that in a negative light at their sentencing.
Second, can a Jane Doe testify that Raniere raped her repeatedly at the age of 12-13 YO? Those charges are also not on the table at this trial, and again the prosecution is seeking to show a pattern of criminal predicate acts to establish the racketeering and conspiracy charges that Raniere faces.
Third and finally, will witnesses have to reveal their full names to the public, or will they be allowed to use aliases or first names only?
Court will convene on Monday to complete the process of selecting 12 jurors and 6 alternates from a pool of around 50. Defense will have ten opportunities to disqualify jurors, and the prosecution will have six.
The judge has ruled that Nancy Russell can move from NY back to her family in Georgia. She had made this request, citing she couldn't find work in NY. Because of her probation, the judge had to approve it. He also approved her request to not have to continue wearing her ankle locator. Odd. Oh, she's a bookkeeper. Don't they hire bookkeepers in NY? She's still a felon no matter where she goes. Her sentencing is in July.
Three more days. Will Raniere survive the weekend before his trial starts?
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More from QR...
McCarthy says Nadler lied, not Barr
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Thursday
rejected Democrats’ assertion that Attorney General William
Barr had lied to Congress last month and committed a crime.
Instead, McCarthy accused House Judiciary Committee Chairman
Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) of being a liar.
“I do not believe Attorney General Barr lied; I believe he’s
been very transparent in all of this,” McCarthy told
reporters Thursday afternoon. “I think if people are looking
at who has lied in the process, simply look at Chairman
Nadler.”
The combative remarks from McCarthy, a close ally of
President Trump, came after Nadler staged a Judiciary
Committee hearing with an empty chair. Barr backed out of
the hearing after objecting to Democrats’ demand that staff
attorneys be allowed to question Barr in addition to
lawmakers.
“Chairman Nadler asked the attorney general to come and he
said yes. After the attorney general said he would come to
the committee, to speak to every member, they moved to
change the rules,” McCarthy said. “The only time an
individual, a staffer questioned somebody was during
Watergate. Nadler has been wanting to impeach the day after
the election.”
A Nadler spokesman did not immediately provide a comment.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/441860-mccarthy-says-nadler-lied-not-barr
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And more relevant to your post, also from QR....
John Doe 2 Is Edgar Bronfman Sr.
In the case of the U.S. v. Keith Alan Raniere, I see no
reason not to identify John Doe 2.
He is/was Edgar Miles Bronfman, father of Clare Bronfman,
former president and CEO of his family’s distilled beverage
firm, Seagram and former president of the World Jewish
Congress.
He died, at age 84, on December 21, 2013.
Bronfman was a billionaire and before and after he died, he
left Clare money. I estimate it to be about $400 million.
Clare squandered much of that on her Vanguard, Keith Alan
Raniere, over the 15 years she was his enabler, henchwoman,
clown and dupe.
She is believed to have a net worth now of about $200 million.
Her father, Edgar was married five times (twice to his third
wife, Clare’s mother.) He had five children with his first
wife, Ann Margaret Loeb: They are Samuel, Edgar Jr.,
Matthew, Holly and Adam Bronfman.
After divorcing Loeb, Edgar married Rita Eileen Webb, later
Georgiana “George” Bronfman in 1975.
https://frankreport.com/2019/05/03/john-doe-2-is-edgar-bronfman-sr/
~Easy
How interesting that you were replying to post “17”....and YOUR post is “45”!
I’m pinging my Q Ping List from March, and I haven’t used it in a while.
This is important.
Several great Q researchers have been chased off these threads by a small clan of pearl-clutching, fainting couch, blue-haired bitties who are offended by the truths and discussion here.
As Q Team said early on, “The choice to know will be yours”. That means if you can’t take the discussion, then pull out. Don’t read it. The Q threads are a place to discuss ugly truths.
Bad language, bad things, evil exposed, is the nature of these truths.
Over the past year and a half or so, many of us have built online and offline relationships with the fellow FReeQs. That is positive - we need to be united.
Recently, as things come to a head, we’ve been attacking each other on religious slides, complaining about offensive pictures, memes or articles.
To continue contributing here, I ask for two things.
First, I love occasional slides into recipes, gardening, mechanical, and more in the down times. But these slides must not devolve into attacking one another for religious beliefs, morality, or anything that is designed to divide us.
Second, this is a research thread. Always. A search for truth. Truth is ugly. Posts here will be offensive or ugly at times. STOP pinging the website owner every time you’re offended. Jim reads our threads. He already knows what we’re posting. He’s contacted me on FReepMail whenever I’m drawing outside the lines and clarified why I need to reign it in. I respect his house rules and abide. As we all should since he gives us a place out back to get our Q on.
*****Meanwhile, let’s see what POTUS has to say about Free Speech*****
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We have FREEDOM OF SPEECH in America! Trump reacts to Facebook ban
President Donald Trump has condemned social media censorship in the wake of Facebook’s lifetime ban on several prominent conservative commentators, warning the platforms he is “monitoring and watching” them.
“I am continuing to monitor the censorship of AMERICAN CITIZENS on social media platforms,” Trump tweeted on Friday, putting Facebook and other sites on notice. “This is the United States of America - and we have what’s known as FREEDOM OF SPEECH!”
Trump’s warning echoed the words of his son Donald Trump Jr., who called on conservatives to “fight back” against Big Tech’s “next level” censorship, in a tweet posted earlier on Friday.
The president specifically mentioned Hollywood star James Woods and Infowars’ Paul Joseph Watson as two “Conservative thinkers” he was “surprised” to see banned from social media platforms. While Woods’ Twitter page has not been removed, his last tweet was posted over a week ago and many, including his girlfriend, have speculated that he has been banned.
He also called out Facebook for how “horribly” it had treated black conservative commentator sisters Diamond & Silk, who saw engagement on their page drop off steeply after their content was labeled “unsafe to the community” by Facebook employees.
President Trump met with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey last week to discuss social media censorship of conservatives.
Facebook banned Alex Jones, Milo Yiannopoulos, Laura Loomer, and a handful of other popular conservative figures - plus Louis Farrakhan - on Thursday, citing its policy on “dangerous individuals and organizations.” The platform announced it will remove even groups and events promoting content from the banned users.
https://www.rt.com/usa/458330-trump-reacts-facebook-ban/