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General Category => National/Breaking News => Topic started by: TomSea on March 14, 2019, 11:12:58 am
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Nxivm 'sex cult' case: Co-founder pleads guilty to racketeering
The co-founder of a suspected US sex cult has pleaded guilty to committing racketeering offences.
Nancy Salzman, 65, told a court in New York she had stolen email addresses of critics of Nxivm group and tampered with video evidence.
Ms Salzman, known as Prefect in the group, is due to be sentenced in July.
Female recruits of Nxivm were allegedly branded with the initials of the group's spiritual leader Keith Raniere and coerced into having sex with him.
Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47563045 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47563045)
Article on prior arrest of the found last year, quite a bit more detail: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43550908 (https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43550908)
I'd never heard about any of this. Few "cult" stories in recent years.