Kristin Keeffe on Raniere: ‘Look at his fucking life. He’s so lazy’!

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Keith Raniere and Nancy Salzman

There are many gems found in the transcript of the March 24, 2015 recorded phone call between Barbara Bouchey and Kristin Keeffe, two former inner circle members of NXIVM, both of whom were sexually involved with NXIVM founder Keith Raniere and later fled from him.

One of the these gems is an anecdote Keeffe tells about Raniere and what she said about him to his assistant, Nancy Salzman, president of NXIVM.

As context, Keeffe was explaining to Bouchey how, in 2012, Raniere dropped the ball on a civil litigation (in a case alleging computer trespass of NXIVM’s password protected website) by allowing the statute of limitations to expire.

No matter, according to Keeffe, Raniere would simply have Clare Bronfman, who is in charge of operations for NXIVM, perjure herself about the date of discovery of the computer trespass – which is when the statute of limitations begins to  run.

In Keeffe’s phone call with Bouchey, she tells how she went to Raniere when she found out he let the time lapse and said to him, “‘Are you kidding me? This was the one thing you had to do all year long….. You blew this, you lost this case, there’s no case. You blew it on statute of limitations.’

“Then, I went to Nancy (Salzman), I tried to deprogram Nancy, but I had to always go light, because I didn’t want to out myself as being onto Keith….. I was always walking that line between trying to point these things out without outing myself completely as a dissident. … I went to Nancy and I said, ‘Look at his fucking life. He’s so lazy, he can’t get anything done, all he does is spend all day long fucking around with women, walking around the neighborhood, playing fucking volleyball, and giving speeches…. This is the one fucking thing he had to do…. He’s asking us to sacrifice our lives doing this work we hate, going after his ex-girlfriends, and what the fuck is he doing? He’s doing nothing!…’

“(T)here was a point when I went to Nancy and said, ‘It’s like being a fitness fanatic does not make a person a renunciate.’ She was drinking coffee and she literally spit out the coffee laughing, she was like, ‘You’re right!’ ….

“So, Keith later came back to me and said, ‘Oh, well, we’ve overcome (the statute of limitations) because the attorneys came up with a strategy….’ Keith lied to me about that. I never would have participated in that, because I of all people knew it was a lie, and I made a big stink about it being a lie as an example of his incompetence, and they fucking filed it anyway! I mean, understand that civil complaint is completely, provably, perjurious, and fraudulent, and a malicious prosecution. They state in that complaint that they discovered the trespass in early 2012, when they discovered it in early and late 2011…. “

Summing up, Keeffe adds, “He’s got everything exactly the way he wants it. This is exactly how he wants his life to be. He doesn’t care about the shit. He’s not trying to succeed; he’s trying to enslave.”

“Obviously, this man is not enlightened!’ Keeffe said of Raniere in 2015, a point she tried to make with Salzman in 2012.

 

 

 

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  • As I start to digest this story from the start, I can’t fail to notice Barbara’s use of the word ‘enslave’ here. She saw the pattern of influence and hit the nail on the head before true slaves received their designated word, a year later. Interesting.

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His work has been cited in hundreds of news outlets, like The New York Times, The Daily Mail, VICE News, CBS News, Fox News, New York Post, New York Daily News, Oxygen, Rolling Stone, People Magazine, The Sun, The Times of London, CBS Inside Edition, among many others in all five continents.

His work to expose and take down NXIVM is featured in books like “Captive” by Catherine Oxenberg, “Scarred” by Sarah Edmonson, “The Program” by Toni Natalie, and “NXIVM. La Secta Que Sedujo al Poder en México” by Juan Alberto Vasquez.

Parlato has been prominently featured on HBO’s docuseries “The Vow” and was the lead investigator and coordinating producer for Investigation Discovery’s “The Lost Women of NXIVM.” Parlato was also credited in the Starz docuseries "Seduced" for saving 'slave' women from being branded and escaping the sex-slave cult known as DOS.

Additionally, Parlato’s coverage of the group OneTaste, starting in 2018, helped spark an FBI investigation, which led to indictments of two of its leaders in 2023.

Parlato appeared on the Nancy Grace Show, Beyond the Headlines with Gretchen Carlson, Dr. Oz, American Greed, Dateline NBC, and NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt, where Parlato conducted the first-ever interview with Keith Raniere after his arrest. This was ironic, as many credit Parlato as one of the primary architects of his arrest and the cratering of the cult he founded.

Parlato is a consulting producer and appears in TNT's The Heiress and the Sex Cult, which premiered on May 22, 2022. Most recently, he consulted and appeared on Tubi's "Branded and Brainwashed: Inside NXIVM," which aired January, 2023.

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