Kathy Russell – who has been identified as the former [not current] bookkeeper – was the first to appear in U.S. District Court today in Albany, NY. It was initially unclear if she would be able to provide the $25,000 to secure her release (Russell was uncertain if she could get the $2,500 necessary to post bail – another elegant proof of the value of Executive Success Programs). She is also apparently going to be outfitted with an electronic ankle monitor if she does, in fact, make bail (She was still in custody as of 5:00 PM)
According to the Albany Times Union, “Lauren Salzman will be released after her grandparents — traveling from New Jersey on Tuesday — pay $50,000 cash against a $5 million bond.” Presumably, she will also have to be outfitted with an ankle monitor.
Also according to the Albany Times Union, Nancy Salzman was going to be released on a $5 million surety bond that is to be signed by her parents and David Messing, a friend who lives in the Albany area. Thereafter, she will have ten days to provide authorities on eight properties she owns that a combined estimated value of $1 million.
The rumor – and I emphasize that at this point it’s just a rumor – is that Clare Bronfman’s bail was going to be set at $100 million. According to that same source, she is also going to be subject to house arrest pending trial.
Late word is that Nancy and Lauren will also be appearing tomorrow afternoon at the previously scheduled Status Conference in the case that now has six defendants facing multiple charges that could result in sentences ranging from 15 years to life imprisonment. Presumably, Clare will be there as well.
This story will continue to be updated as more information becomes available…
Any commentary from India, Nicki or any of the other defiant DOS? The bullet about whatw happenedh to Daniela in the press release was a relief to see. I hope she is doing ok and is getting some relief in today’s Justice. However I bet it’s a mixed bag of emotions because she isn’t really a “Jane Doe”.
It is completely against NXIVM policy to comment on anything. If you acknowledge something, you are giving it credence, so you are supposed to ignore it / act like it isn’t happening.
It is entirely the same thing with Sylvie Lloyd tweeting away as Sara Bronfman.
Oof. Also, according to Pinterest, Lloyd is willing to die a few times to live fully, or something like that: https://www.pinterest.com/sylvielloyd/
It will be interesting to see how Sara and Sylvia handle the next few days via the twitterverse.
Maybe Clare’s lawyer told Sara to shut up.
Hahahahahahahaha!
I post this comment in honor of Frank Paralot. It is the Imperial Roman Victory March from Ben Hur:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zGxi-7xDDw
Frank Parlato: you are the man! Just like when Chuck Zito beat up Jean Claude VanDamme in New York a number of years back.
I’m sure we could all chip in a few bucks to arrange for a horse drawn chariot for Frank. I don’t see any of this gaining the kind of momentum it has without Frank’s work.
Nancy Salzman now claims she has a life-threatening medical condition.
Break out the oxygen tanks, just like the old school NYC Mafia dons…
Her condition is called lack of humility. I don’t think anyone’s ever lost their life because of it, but it is ugly and painful.
That was magically cured with NXIVM technology?
You are kidding!?! I missed that nugget in all my reading. Did she have Tourette’s too?
No tourettes but I bet she has been saying GDMF a lot the past few months.
Couldn’t of happened to a nicer woman
If the Salzmans don’t post bail today, they will be held by the US Marshals Service and brought back to court tomorrow in full shackles and jumpsuits.
It’s very lonely when you are in the holding cages, shackled, then brought out like an animal to face the judge.
I didn’t enjoy it, and I was just representing clients! Very dehumanizing, very humiliating.
I really expect someone to flip after they get a taste of the Federal system.
Shouldn’t they have to prove the funds to post bail came from some legitimate source ?
Like a line of credit or a mortgage on the grandparents’ house…
I would guess that family flips or stands together.
Tis true, but EDNY is not legally compelled to offer or accept plea bargains
Lauren should not be getting out.
Convenient she and / or her mother left enough cash with her grandparents for them to come get her out.
Not to disparage someone’s grandparents, but I wonder where the $50,000 they are posting came from. Surely, Nancy had more than one stash of cash, and the homes of relatives might be good places for rainy day funds.
These people have had plenty of notice that this was coming. God only knows all of the plans they’ve been making in preparation for this day.
Really really good point
You think that they would have made blind trust provisions for bail? Then again the court could have anticipated this development. I know nothing about Kathy Russell, but in criminal organizations bookkeepers (less socialized by the culture around them) are more likely to flip.
Isn’t Michelle Salzman the new bookkeeper ?
Kathy is also a victim. She has given all her money to this cult!
Kathy can probably get a plea deal and serve less time, especially since she hasn’t worked there for a few years.
She ought to be able to give them enough info for a whole additional round of indictments.
She made the 50K “no repay loan” (payment) to the girl who covered up the suicide (murder?) in Alaska, right?
That should be worth some time off her sentence.
She made the mistake of not talking.
What about Karen Abbey? She worked in NXIVM accounting office.
With the added indictments to Allison Mack her bail should either be increased to 10 million dollars or be revoked altogether.
This round of indictments should lay to rest the notion that Mack is “the girl next door” who was lured into corruption by the mesmerizing Keith Raniere.
Allison Mack is easily Keith Raniere’s willing and evil partner.
Dude you are obsessed with the women. Grow to fuck up and go buy a blow up doll. Your fantasy girl from 2001 to 2011 is done and your fucking hand has to be raw from those 10 years. Other bitches are getting the spotlight today and until 6 months ago you never heard of them. If it wasn’t for your fantasy girl you would not be here.
Allison Mack is not a “fantasy girl.”
She is a nightmare girl with no moral compass and the brains of a rock.
And she is a pimp in a sex harem.
Four more people arrested, and still you focus on Allison…it says a lot more about you than it does about her.
Read today’s superseding indictment.
Allison Mack is a gangster who extorts money and property out of people.
The defendant AILISON MACK, together with others, did knowingly and intentionally steal
property by extortion, in that MACK and others obtained property, to wit: credit card
authorizations, jewelry and sexually explicit photographs and videos, by compelling and
inducing Jane Doe 5 to deliver such property by instilling in her a fear
https://artvoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Nxivm-Indictment.pdf
Agree – 10 additional or total counts for her after today?