Keith Raniere’s attorney moved the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit to stay his appeal. The motion, if granted, suspends the appeal and clears the way for Raniere to request a new trial from Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis.
Attorney Joseph Tully told the Appeals Court that the FBI tampered with evidence.
Tully writes, “computer images and photographs used by the government… were… altered when in FBI custody.”
He alleges the FBI acted “with malfeasance,” “destroying, constructing, and altering” the images.
An appeal takes priority over a motion that the district court judge decides. A motion for a new trial requires identifying significant new evidence.
“This newly discovered evidence would have resulted in a different result at trial,” Tully wrote.
Tully seeks to stay the appeal until the trial judge hears the new evidence in a Rule 33 motion.
Previewing what will come in his motion, Tully provides some evidence to the Appeals Court.
His exhibits include three digital forensic reports.
The main report comes from former FBI Special Agent Dr. Richard Kiper, Ph.D.
Raniere is appealing his 2019 conviction for
- Sex trafficking
- Sex trafficking conspiracy
- Forced labor conspiracy
- Racketeering conspiracy
- Wire fraud conspiracy
- Attempted sex trafficking.
- Racketeering
In October 2020, Raniere received a 120-year prison sentence.
Next week, Raniere’s oral arguments are on the Appeal’s Court schedule.
The new evidence focuses on images of alleged child porn and sexual exploitation of a child. The U.S. DOJ for the Eastern District of New York used these images as part of racketeering charges against Raniere.
A Mexican woman, Camila, now 32, identified only by her first name in court, is the subject of these photos. The FBI alleges Camia’s images were on a hard drive seized from Raniere’s library.
Tully told the Appeals Court that the photos were “altered.”
The purpose of the alterations was to make it appear that Raniere took photographs of Camila in 2005. Yet, the false dating makes the photographs contraband, Tully said. In 2005, Camila was 15.
Search Is Suspicious?
FBI agents raided a townhouse used by Raniere at 8 Hale Drive in Halfmoon, New York, on March 27, 2018. The raid occurred one day after Raniere’s arrest by the FBI.
The agents seized a hard drive that they later “discovered” contained the photos of Camila.
Tully alleges the search is suspicious.
During the raid, “FBI agents sidestepped several rooms within the residence with evidentiary items, went upstairs, through more rooms, straight to the upstairs study, where the very first two evidentiary items they collected just happened to be the Western Digital hard disc drive at issue… and a Canon digital camera with its compact flash card.,” Tully wrote.
“These two evidentiary items also just happened to be the only two evidentiary items that contained alleged contraband, which just happened to be ‘discovered’ more than ten months later…” he added.
EOS 20D
Questions About the FBI’s Evidence Handling
Tully said FBI agents did not place the camera and camera card in the forensics lab until 11 months later.
He points the finger at FBI Special Agents Michael Lever and Maegan Rees.
Special Agent Lever is the lead agent on the case. He did not testify at the trial.
Rees testified. She brought the Camila photos to the jury in a red binder. She also portrayed Camila in an extensive reading of Camila’s texts with Raniere.
Tully wrote that Rees and Lever “broke protocol” by removing the camera and C.F. card from Evidence Control. Tully alleges they did this twice, for a total of 24 days.
The FBI’s Operational Technology Division must process all digital evidence. But, according to retired FBI agent Kiper, agents are “prohibited” from examining digital evidence until the Operational Tech Division processes it.
As a result, Kiper asked why agents held on to the camera card for months when they could not examine it?
Another issue is the belated discovery of contraband. The discovery of Camila’s photos occurred ten months after the FBI seized the hard drive.
Tully argues that the FBI’s efforts show “the hallmarks of fraud.”
Dates Allegedly Faked
Dr. Kiper’s report challenges the FBI’s claim that the computer autogenerated folder names when Raniere allegedly downloaded the images.
The FBI said that the folder date names “roughly” correspond to the dates of the EXIF data. EXIF data, if unaltered, shows the creation date of a photo.
The “alleged contraband photographs were manually altered to look autogenerated,” Tully alleged.
FBI Narrative
FBI Forensic Examiner Brian Booth testified that the folder names had autogenerated dates. He testified that Raniere downloaded the images from the camera to the camera card. Then he downloaded it from the camera card to a computer. The computer then generated names that are the same as the download date, hour, minute, and second.
FBI Examiner Booth testified that the dates “roughly” matched the EXIF data. The date on the folder names and the EXIF data shows 2005 as the date of creation of the Camila photos.
Faked?
Kiper believes that the FBI faked the photos. He suggests that the FBI blundered by downloading images in reverse order. He said the timing of the downloads is faster than a human could download them.
Other so-called auto-generated dates defy the laws of nature. For instance, some photos are older than their parent backup folders.
Kiper said this suggests manual alteration. He says the purpose was to prove that the alleged contraband was authentic.
He said this includes folders containing Camila’s images.
The allegations continue.
Tully gives an example of FBI evidence blundering in his motion for a stay. The government alleged the camera card proves Raniere took the photos that were found on the hard drive. If true, the camera card images should match the hard drive.
They don’t, Tully says.
“The thumbnails of a brunette impossibly became thumbnails of a blonde,” Tully explains.
Frank Report can reveal the identities of the crossed-up photos.
The brunette is Daniela, the sister of Camila, the subject of the contraband photos.
The blonde is Angel, one of Ranieres’ longtime girlfriends.
Hard Drive:
On the hard drive, Daniela appears in images #93, 94, 96, and 97. Viewing the file shows her thumbnail and her complete image.
Angel’s thumbnail and full image on the hard drive are images #180-183.
Hard drive images #93, 94, 96, 97
Hard drive images #180-183
On the camera card, Daniela’s images again are #93, 94, 96, and 97, but the thumbnails are not Daniela but Angel. Angel appears twice on the camera card. Her thumbnails appear on Daniela’s pictures as well as her own.
Camera card images #93, 94, 96, 97
Camera card images #180-183.
Kiper says Daniela’s images on the hard drive and camera card have exact matching metadata. This, he says, is impossible since they are not the same images.
A previous camera card report did not have Daniela’s photos on it. A last-minute, unauthorized FBI camera card report popped up during the trial.
Kiper reports that 30 images appear on the new camera card report not found on the first report. Among these are the Daniela images with Angel’s thumbnails.
Tully said, “the plethora of anomalies on the [hard drive] and the C.F. card… all support the government’s narrative.”
The experts are:
Dr. J. Richard Kiper, Ph.D., is a retired FBI Special Agent of 20 years. He served as unit chief of the FBI Academy in Quantico.
Also, he served as an FBI case agent, supervisor, and computer forensic examiner. His report is here.
Steven Marc Abrams, J.D., M.S., is a licensed attorney and “an expert in digital forensics.” His report is here.
Wayne B. Norris is “an expert witness in more than 100 technology-related cases.” His report is here.
Tully writes that all three experts concluded that the government “tampered with the evidence.”
Back to the Judge?
When a federal defendant files an appeal, as Raniere has done, the appellate court has priority. Currently, Raniere’s case is with the appellate court. However, only the trial judge decides a Rule 33 motion for a new trial.
Therefore, the stay of the appeal must be granted by the appellate court for the trial judge to consider the Rule 33 motion.
If the appellate court does not stay the appeal, then the Rule 33 motion will wait until the appellate court rules on Raniere’s appeal.
Damn!
Alanzo the Wise claimed: “It’s here. Karma has finally caught up with Moira and Judgey G.”
https://frankreport.com/2022/04/28/critics-demand-can-expert-detect-crimes-of-fbi-tampering-kipers-20-years-in-fbi-his-five-biggest-cases/#comment-191070
The appeals court denied that BS in a matter of hours.
Mr. World-Class Vegan Athlete was proven wrong faster than he can eat a case of Ring Dings®! Time to put some fresh duct tape on those pink crocs. Maybe Keith should rely more on Alanzo’s world class marketing skillz than Tully’s legal incompetence.
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A Total Cult: Keith Raniere – H G Tudor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KuF8Nx7LpQ
An insight into the mind of narcissists and their followers, how they think and operate.
I understand H G Tudor will be a consultant for Mark Vicente’s forthcoming documentary.
Spectacular video. Thanks for the share!
Where did you learn about HG being a consultant? I’m a big fan of his work.
Queen of CRINGE Heads Biden Ministry of Truth
Denied.
Attorney incompetent.
Clare’s attorneys don’t even support it.
What a legal train wreck.
So much time taken and it’s done poorly.
Keep cashing those checks Tully you clown
Legal zoom would have done a better job
Their lawyer is exactly as dumb as he looks
The Supreme confidence of the stupid
As they crash and burn is a joy to behold
A few thoughts…
As for the claim that seizing the hard drive & camera ‘immediately’ was somehow suspicious (and tantamount to fraudulent intentions)… I’m having a hard time following the defense’s logic here.
Why wouldn’t the FBI have focused on seizing that computer/storage evidence? Especially when several victims had already told them it likely contained nude photos.
I have a hard time believing that the FBI had ‘fraud’ on their mind from Day #1 when they first seized the evidence.
Why? Because if the FBI really seized the hard drive with ‘fraudulent intentions’ (i.e. if they really had a ‘black ops team’ waiting in the wings from Day #1 to illegally alter photos on those hard drives, LOL) then WHY would they have waited 11 months to actually commit this ‘planned fraud’ and/or discover it suddenly in the eleventh hour, thereby drawing INCREASED SCRUTINY to this evidence?
In other words, if the FBI really did have a so-called ‘black ops team’ (i.e., a team of agents who conspired to commit fraud, LOL) then why wouldn’t they have done it quicker and sooner, thereby not drawing so much INCREASED SCRUTINY to their alleged felonies?
What about the ‘motivation’ of these FBI agents?
FBI agents largely remain anonymous and are not treated as ‘media heroes’ like Moira Penza was.
Yet, supposedly these same FBI agents conspired together — from the day the evidence was first seized — to commit felonies JUST so that Moira Penza would look good and become a media darling?
These FBI agents risked their careers, pension and freedom just to help Moira look better? LOL.
Yeah, sure. That sounds reasonable. Not.
Oh… Unlike the ‘Silk Road’ investigation where 2 crooked government agents stole hundreds of thousands of dollars in bitcoin (and profited heavily from their crime)… I just don’t see what ‘benefit’ these FBI agents would receive by ‘pre-planning’ a fraudulent raid to seize a hard drive for which they had already planned to illegally plant evidence on.
Simply hoping for a ‘small promotion’ (in the future) is not worth the risk of losing your career, pension and freedom by literally committing outright FELONIES.
Risk and reward go side by side.
That’s a very HIGH RISK idea which the defense is proposing, since the FBI agents would be risking their careers, pension and freedom IN RETURN for EDNY prosecutors getting all the credit in the media. LOL.
Were the prosecutors involved too, Frank? LOL.
Also, the defense hasn’t explained the PINK ELEPHANT in the room.
PINK ELEPHANT: If this whole operation was really just a big ‘government conspiracy’ against Keith from the day they seized the hard drive (LOL)… Then how could the FBI do that without being in collusion with Cami?
Because IF they didn’t have Cami’s ‘approval’ for tampering with these photos, they’d have risked Cami coming forward thru her attorney (or being called as a witness) and telling the court that those photos were not legitimately taken in 2005.
Frank won’t even attempt to explain why agents would risk altering photos (and going to prison) WITHOUT THE APPROVAL AND KNOWLEDGE of the person who was actually photographed.
Thus… I’m just not buying what Frank & company are trying to sell us here.
That’s why I’ll wait for the prosecution to respond to this motion before deciding.
Now, if the prosecution responds (to this motion) by saying that they have no logical explanations to deal with Mr. Kiper’s allegations, then I’ll probably switch camps and agree with the NXIVM holdouts.
Thus, we must wait for the prosecution’s response BEFORE knowing if there’s any merit to it.
Frank currently has his nose shoved 100% up the butts of Kiper & company.
I may start a GoFundMe campaign to cover the costs of Frank erecting a statue of Kiper on his Florida estate. Anybody willing to help donate?
What a silly filing
Tully doesn’t file the Rule 33 that is supposed to prove tampering by the FBI
He instead puts in the other motions. He requested Raniere’s appeal be delayed on evidence that will be filed at a later date
What…
This Rule 33 has been in the works for over the year. How much more time do they need to file it?
Is it so far up Suneel ass he can’t shit it out to be filed?
Or is this all smoke & mirrors Frank
Has it been all along
There is no real evidence
Is it just another Raniere game he has played with his loyalists?
It’s made Tully some money and made his loyalists look as stupid as they are
Frank, he has made you look like a monkey ass for standing beside the loyalists.
You have also pissed off the FBI. I’m sure that has helped your case also, NOT.
Maybe this was Raniere’s end game all along. Get Frank, because you helped screw him over but helping to expose him and DOS.
You didn’t even see it coming did you.
Shouldn’t play with the devil Frank
Meet Nina Jankowicz the woman who will decide if your speech and writings are treasonous.
Watch – Biden Truth Minister Sings: ‘Who Do I F*ck’ to Be ‘Rich, Famous, and Powerful’
Before her new job at the Department of Homeland Security, President Joe Biden’s new disinformation chief Nina Jankowicz displayed her musical talent on YouTube.
In one video, Jankowicz sings a version of “My Simple Christmas Wish (Rich, Famous, and Powerful)” by David Friedman.
Nina Jankowicz – “My Simple Christmas Wish (Rich, Famous and Powerful)” (David Friedman)
Perhaps the FBI will establish a Disinformation Governance Board to weed out all of the fake evidence their agents produce.
An email sent to Senator Charles Grassley.
Senator Grassley:
In light of Commissar Joe Biden’s creation of a “Disinformation Governance Board” which will monitor all Americans and punish those who spread erroneous information, I am moved to ask if Joe Biden is insane or a Communist.
In either event it appears that Commissar Biden should be impeached and removed from office.
Neither Commissar Biden nor his flunkies appear to understand the Bill of Rights or the Right to Free Speech.
Biden and his cronies are intent to impose a Ministry of Truth on the American people.
The only real defense is for the Congress to impeach and remove Biden and his minions from public office.
The main threat to American Democracy is those who would deny the American people their Constitutional rights.
When people of Biden’s ilk took over Russia and China and imposed their will on these people they ended up destroying freedom and starving millions of people to death.
It’s okay to not mention Biden in every post.
You should try ESP because you might have political tourette’s syndrome
Marc Elliot can help.
Is it known who is paying Raniere’s attorneys? Does Raniere have access to the money he inherited from the heiress who died, the one whose body they tried to preserve on ice or whatever? I can’t recall her name.
Diane-
I don’t think anyone truly knows.
Keith is hated so much, whatever the FBI did seems irrelevant by comparison. But how can the public excuse evidence of tampering, lying, and altering data to secure conviction of a sex crime?
The same way the court did today.
Recognizing it’s disorganized bullshit from the dead-enders and vanguard’s lawyers and tossing it out.
Even Clare’s lawyers don’t want any part of Tully’s legal car crash.
OMG. The dead-enders are still on their hate fest crusade. Most people don’t care enough to hate your self-involved leader. Only his victims possibly hate him, who sought justice via the court system and obtained it. To most people, he’s just another dime-a-dozen, narcissistic, and perverted cult leader.
So self-involved, narcissistic and egotistical that he got 120 years in prison instead of taking 20 upfront (and be out at 77 years old instead of never) for the lies he tried to cover, just to try to beat the system and be shown right for things he knew that he did were wrong. What an utter buffoon, not even close to being the third best problem solver in the world.
Why would the FBI’s lead agent, Mike Lever, not testify in court? Obviously, they convicted Raniere and sentenced him to 120 years without him, but it seems odd he wouldn’t be essential at trial.
Raniere is delaying his own appeal in order to drag it all out before the door is locked with not even the tiniest hope of his prison cell ever opening.
It’s cruel really. Spending other people’s money. Wasting his followers time.
It also delays acting on the judge’s order to return the collateral. Cruel, again.
The FBI did not “need” the photos of Cami. They had so much other evidence showing what Keith did to her since childhood. The TEXTS are what made Lauren flip. And others. So that argument doesn’t fly either.
Keith Raniere objected to Cami’s child porn photos at his trial NOT due to “tampering” but because they were from…2005. His words.
Frank…Why aren’t you doing a story about how Nicki Clyne’s newest cult of group think on Twitter is dealing with harsh criticism for buddying up to a woman who supports a pedophile and sex slaver?
It’s a long overdue reckoning for those hypocrites.
The truth is always fair. Even if it’s your gal-pal.
I do plan to write about Nicki’s Twitter world.
Will that be before you publish the DOS manual? Or would that make Nicki look worse than she already does?
You have surpassed Suneel with your promised publications that never materialize.
I still can’t wait to read the long-ago announced discussion by Suneel of Raniere’s “intuitive grasp of calculus.”
But I guess even he has realized that trying to polish the turd of Keith’s third-rate intellect and education is a completely waste of time.
Nicki Clyne
@nickiclyne
·
Apr 27
Please buy SNL next, Elon
Nicki, like Elon Musk, is a Libertarian.
Nicki Clyne has 37,000 followers on Twitter.
She routinely uses her Twitter platform as a force for good – on all different types of social issues and injustices that need a light shone on them.
The Peanut Gallery here on the Frank Report would have you believe that her @NickiClyne Twitter account is run by a “brainwashed sex slave”.
Two minutes reading her tweets lets you see exactly how dehumanizing, and how misogynistic, these Frank Report fucktards are.
Tens of thousands of other people on Twitter have seen this, and know what I am saying here is true.
If anyone wants to stay informed, and think critically about this, you, along with Frank, should see and follow her Twitter for yourself.
https://twitter.com/nickiclyne
Alanzo
“ Nicki Clyne has 37,000 followers on Twitter.”
She also sucked on Keith’s old hairy ballsack and was the reason they found and arrested him. Do all her “followers” know that great tidbit? 🤣
Her followers are a bunch of tool-bag white guys looking to interact with a B-list female celebrity.
Something Alanzo would love to do….
…..Suck on Keith’s old hairy ballsack.
Hardly anyone is on Twitter world wide
And only a tiny fraction of that small population who are on the platform use it.
It’s a cess pool. Nobody cares. It’s not real. It’s an echo chamber for ego-maniacs, bots and “followers” <— not leaders.
No one cares. It's not real life.
Bragging about another person's volume of social media followers who are largely anonymous (your ever vocalized complaint) is so pathetic it's funny.
It doesn't mean anything. Or translate into work in her case. It's just more culty "tribal" side taking. How does spending one's days raging aout gender online really benefit anyone? It's just an opinion.. You can buy followers. Ha ha. Do you believe in Santa too?
Alanzo you’re kissing Nicki’s ass, so she gives you the occasional “like” ❤️ on your Twitter feed.
LMAFO at your loser ass!
***
All the NX’ers try to ignore you on social media. Take the hint!
The cult documentary Alanzo is to afraid to watch:
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/sep/29/gwen-shamblin-docuseries-the-way-down-remnant-fellowship
Make sure to also write about how big of a hypocrite Nicki Clyne is and how she claims to want “open dialogue” and welcome opposing views of hers, ignores and/or blocks everybody who tries to reason with her about the error of her ways as well as the rest of the so called, “Dossier Project”!
… “who tries to reason with her”…
Alanzo
Alanzo-
… “who tries to reason with her”…
Susan Dones tries to reason with the Canadian ‘belle’, Nicki Clyne.
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When it comes to the NXIVM saga, you’ve no idea what your talking about. It’s kind of a joke, like your sex life. You’re cranking it with right hand or spanking it with the left — you should try the reverse grip, it feels like someone else is pulling. LOL
Many people! Tell that bitch if she wants “open dialogue” then stop blocking people and hiding when confronted like a pussy! She claims DOS made her such a “strong bad ass woman” then act like it instead of a weak flaky coward! No matter what is said to her, she should be able to defend it! Not cry foul and hide! Even if they don’t listen, it will still be on public record and others can decide for themselves!
Frank,
I let a lot of your editing of my comments go even though you’ve ruined my jokes a few times and make other odd changes but f*** if I’m going to let you make it seem like I wrote out gal pal.
No. That will not stand.
I like it when Frank screws me. It’s funny.
Dropped the “with “ haha!
What is “suspicious” about the FBI focusing their search for Raniere’s photos of DOS women by going straight to Raniere’s office?
How many hard drives did Raniere keep next to his toilet in the bathroom?
It wasn’t like the FBI was going in completely blind about what Raniere and his minions were up to.
But here’s the rub. If judge Garaufis is as corrupt as Frank and the dead-ender’s claim, he won’t recuse himself and the Rule 33 motion will fail.
Keith is never getting out of jail.
I don’t claim Judge Garaufis is corrupt. I don’t think he is corrupt. I think he will look at the evidence. As I have repeatedly stated, I do not know enough about computers to make a determination. I want to hear from opposing experts.
Made a similar comment that hasn’t been posted.
Additionally, the FBI did major Intel gathering and they knew where to look first in this relatively small abode.
The FBI values safety of agents/employees. This was part of a “cult leader’s compound”. There could guns. People inside with weapons. Traps. They knew everything possible before entering.
It was an enormous blunder to pad this filing with such utter garbage. It only shines a spotlight on a lack of real merit within.
Too bad. Not sad.
(Sung)
Keith is never, ever, ever getting out of prison…
Nxivm is never, ever, ever getting back together…
Keith is never, ever, ever getting out of prison…
Neil Glazer is now suing Scientology. https://www.kohnswift.com/2022/04/28/scientology/
Alanzo – Is the bridge burnt with Neil? Will the dead-enders forgive you if you become a Kohn, Swift, & Graf fan? Worlds are colliding!!!
Oh wow. It’s much more desperate than even anticipated
The search “side-stepped many rooms”?
Many? How many?
Which ones? The bathroom?
This wasn’t a mansion.
Gee. Maybe they FBI had Intel? Maybe.. The blackmail victims told them where Keith made his porn? And kept his binder of vulvas? Maybe the FBI knew where Keith hung out and did his dirty deeds?
Or maybe the FBI just did not think the kitchen of this relatively small dwelling was the first place to start?
Maybe…they are trained where to look?
Maybe they plan ever detail for their own safety? And gather tons of info pre search?
THIS is the “bombshell” evidence?
Fuuuuuccck. This filing is a joke.
Do we know where the three experts got the photos from to make their determination?
What was their chain of curiosity?
There was no motion filed with the EDNY for a copy of the hard drive of the photos for these experts to do their research from.
So, we have no idea where they got the photos from, and who had contact with the photos before they had a chance to investigate them.
How do we know they were not tampered with before this group of three men got hold of them?
Money can buy all kinds of things and Raniere wants out of prison
Could he have paid to have the photos tampered with? It has been years since his trial and his trial attorney didn’t take issue with the photos, nor did his expert at the time of the trial.
Why now?
What difference does any of this make? Camila said that the photos were taken when she was 15. Why is her word not enough? Also, wasn’t he convicted of crimes outside of child porn?
Women are spoiled brats who just lie because it’s easiest, just like Raniere does.
“Women are brats?”
That’s nice! Is that what your dad taught you or is that because your wife left your sorry ass, for another man — who had a dick which works and a bank account.
All men that talk like that a bitter and got no game.
Ice-nine summarizes his thoughts:
1. This computer forensic examiners profession is completely subjective and a bunch of malarkey.
2. All these guys are pay-for-play and none of them can be taken seriously.
3. Wayne Newton is just as competent as Wayne Norris for conducting digital forensic investigations.
4. Richard Kiper historically bungled the 2008 Florida Jeffrey Epstein child sex trafficking case during his time as an FBI agent in Miami, and simply cannot be believed in this child sex trafficking case either. He sucks.
It got tossed toot suite.
Wasn’t even properly filed.
Ha ha ha