Agnifilo Calls Nxivm Plaintiffs ‘Unprincipled, Greedy’

Agnifilo accused the plaintiffs of being “motivated by greed, not the truth.”

He added that the Glazer lawsuit is an “unprincipled money grab by adults who made grown-up decisions that they now apparently regret.”

“While making regret a cause of action is good for plaintiff’s lawyers, it’s bad for anyone who values genuine personal responsibility,” he said.

Agnifilo, from the start, preached personal responsibility. Prior to the trial, he said, “Everyone [in Nxivm/DOS] is not only an adult, they’re well-to-do adults. They’re adults that for the most part are educated. They’re smart. They have financial opportunity. These are actresses and models and successful people and business people, people who have successful businesses and have aspirations…

“And these are choices — eye-open, adult-knowing, voluntary choices that these people are making. And for the government to just sort of say, ‘Well, you know, they’re brainwashed. You know, they’re effectively brainwashed.’ I don’t think there’s such thing as brainwashing. It went out with the Cold War. It’s like a relic of the ’70s. I mean, it just doesn’t exist.”

However, Agnifilo did not mention the collection of blackmail-worthy material Raniere called collateral which Glazer argues took personal responsibility away from victims.

“The collateral could consist of assets, compromising confessionals, letters falsely accusing close family members or friends of unethical, immoral or illegal conduct, nude photos, videos, or other materials that would, if released, subject the recruits or their loved ones to loss, humiliation or shame,” Glazer stated in his lawsuit.

“After supplying collateral…  DOS was revealed to the recruits. But to their surprise and dismay, they were told that now, before they could learn about the structure and nature of this sisterhood, they had to provide additional humiliating and damaging collateral. Thus, before knowing anything about the internal workings of DOS, they were trapped, fearful that if they did not do precisely as instructed, the collateral that they had already provided would be released.

“Once that second collateral had been given and approved, the recruiter/master revealed a little more about DOS…. Shortly after being admitted into the group, slaves were commanded to provide additional collateral every month.

“Even after providing abundant collateral, however, the slaves were never told certain material facts: that Raniere created and ran DOS with the assistance of the First Line Masters (if asked, the First Line Masters denied Raniere’s involvement); that the gathering of collateral was intended to coerce women into a lifetime of personal servitude; and that the ultimate objective of DOS was to recruit and groom women for sexual slavery under their ‘grandmaster’ – Raniere.”

Prior to the trial, Agnifilo argued that it was sexist to call women victims.

“I think the government’s position has elements of sexism in it. There are men in the United States who join fraternities and get branded. But it’s men, so we don’t think anything of it.

“Women want to be in a secret group and want to be branded and all of a sudden we’re very quick to say, ‘Oh, poor dears. They must be victims because no right-thinking, free-willed woman would ever want that for herself.’ And I think that’s sexist and I think the government is playing to a sexist agenda. You know, men do these things, we call them Marines. Women do these things, we call them victims,” Agnifilo said.

Circling back to the main point of this story, the fact remains that there were witnesses at the criminal trial who denied they were part of a civil lawsuit. They now appear to be part of the civil lawsuit.