The revelation that love cult guru, Keith Raniere, was having sex with his closest followers strikes me not too differently than the promise for the Muslim martyr who dies to enjoy 72 virgins, or the temporary marriage of the Muslim in sojourn,…
It was an organization populated, for the most part, with vibrant, attractive, seemingly intelligent women - who were all infatuated with Raniere, weeping with joy at his munificence, or crying with guilt that they were not worthy of their revered teacher’s love...…
This week the extraordinary conman Shmuel Shmueli contacted this publication to inform us that we told “lies” about him and “distorted” and “manipulated facts in amazing ways”.…
By Frank Parlato NXIVM has 12 “commandments” which followers pledge to observe. Number 11 refers to money. Followers “pledge to ethically control as much of the money, wealth, and resources of the world as possible,” since “it is essential for the survival…
(As published in the Niagara Falls Reporter, Dec. 3 2015) In the present case against Frank Parlato, it had been reported that the one million dollars the developer allegedly defrauded the Bronfman sisters out of was held by Parlato in escrow pending…
By Frank Parlato Dec 3, 2015 I lived and worked with NXIVM for several months as their round-the-clock consultant, staying in their properties and communicating closely day and night with their top officials. That included leaders Keith Raniere, hypnotist and president of…
By Frank Parlato Dec 3, 2015 This week we return to the extraordinary conman Shmuel Shmueli, who defrauded dozens of local lawyers along the way to making me his chief victim. Born April 9, 1951, in Israel, Shmueli came to the…
By Staff of Niagara Falls Reporter (The following report is based on news media reports, sometimes using the exact language of published reports, documents in the public domain, and documents made available to the Reporter from various sources and interviews.) By Staff…
By Frank Parlato Nov 12, 2015 Hacking into people’s emails, phone records, bank accounts, bribing Mexican judges and politicians, massive tax evasion, secreting $10 million into the US in cash from Mexico, bringing illegal aliens across the border at Niagara Falls, then…
Has US Attorney Done Due Diligence on Their Source of the Parlato Investigation? By Frank Parlato A hall of fame of lawyers? Yes. A question: What do attorneys Joseph Zdarsky, David Gutkowki, Steven Cohen, Corey Hogan, John LaFalce, Jaeckle, Fleischmann & Mugel, …
Followers, mostly female, have described Raniere as a “soft-spoken, humble genius” and some of these consider him to be like a Christ or Buddha born to save humanity. Raniere has a penchant for attractive, affluent women and apparently teen and pre-teen girls.…
This is another installment of a series where I am the journalist covering my own federal indictment on- 19 criminal counts. Last week I wrote about cult leader Keith Raniere and the two women who fund and empower him – Seagram heiresses,…
Part II of a series where I am the journalist covering a federal investigation in which I am also the investigation’s target. A companion series about the Bronfman sisters and cult leader Keith Raniere are also in this issue. Both are connected…