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Secretive groupâs leader charged with sex-trafficking
NEW YORK (AP) â The leader of a secretive group in upstate New York turned female followers into brainwashed âslavesâ who were branded with his initials and coerced into having sex, authorities alleged on Monday in a criminal complaint charging him with sex-trafficking.
Keith Raniere, co-founder of the group called Nxivm, was arrested in Mexico and returned to Texas Monday, authorities said. He was to appear in court on Tuesday in Fort Worth on the charges filed by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn.
According to the complaint, Raniere â known within the group as âVanguardâ â oversaw a barbaric system in which women were told the best way to advance was to become a âslaveâ overseen by âmasters.â They also were expected to have sex with him and do menial chores for masters, and to keep the arrangement a secret or be publicly humiliated, the complaint says.
The name of Raniereâs attorney wasnât immediately available on Monday. In a letter attributed to Raniere previously posted on a website related to Nxivm, he denied the practices were sanctioned by the self-described self-help group.
Secretive groupâs leader charged with sex-trafficking
per wikipedia:
>>Its clients have included Richard Branson<< as well as actresses Linda Evans, Allison Mack, Kristin Kreuk and Nicki Clyne.[15] According to Forbes magazine, 3,700 people had taken part in its Executive Success Program as of 2003, including Sheila Johnson, co-founder of BET; Antonia Novello, former Surgeon General of the United States; Stephen Cooper of Enron; and Ana Cristina Fox, daughter of former Mexican president Vicente Fox.[19]
Emiliano Salinas (son of former Mexican president Carlos Salinas), has been identified by Proceso magazine as "director" in Mexico for NXIVM