Nancy Salzman’s Prison Transfer: Ailing NXIVM Figure Moves to Albany Halfway House on September 7

Nancy Salzman prior to her sentencing in 2021

Nancy Salzman, 68, the former president of NXIVM, will leave her prison cell at FCI Hazelton in three weeks.

The US Bureau of Prisons has assigned her to a Community Corrections Center (CCC), commonly called a halfway house. She will transfer from Hazelton to the Horizon Center in Albany, New York, on September 7.

Her transfer from the medium-security federal prison in West Virginia to a minimum-security halfway house near her home confirms Salzman’s deteriorating health may not be dire.

If Salzman was gravely ill, budget-conscious BOP officials would likely have assigned her to home confinement, an option BOP officials posited less than a month ago, pending an MRI scheduled for Salzman.

Typically, a federal inmate becomes eligible for a halfway house six months before the end of their sentence. In her case, she will be assigned ten months before the expiry of her sentence. The US BOP has set a release date for Salzman for July 2, 2024.

US District Court Judge Nicholas J Garaufis originally sentenced Salzman to three and a half years in prison in September 2021. On July 17, Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis held a hearing on a motion for a sentence reduction based on Salzman’s decline in health.

Nancy Salzman headed to court in Brooklyn…

BOP officials told the judge that the prison’s medical department had cleared Salzman for an MRI within 30 days and that the BOP had scheduled her for transfer to either a halfway house or home confinement on September 7, 2023, under the First Step Act.

Judge Garaufis instructed the BOP or the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York to provide a definitive statement on whether Salzman would be released on September 7, 2023, under the First Step Act, and if so, whether she would be released to home confinement or a halfway house.

The judge also directed the BOP to inform the court whether the MRI was performed or delayed due to Salzman’s pressing health concerns.

Horizon House, where Salzman will live, is on Elizabeth Street, Albany, less than 20 miles from her former residence at 3 Oregon Trail in Waterford, NY, where she lived for years as the Prefect of NXIVM.

Her daughter Lauren Salzman, also a high ranking member of NXIVM, lives in the Albany area and is currently on probation due to her conviction for racketeering and racketeering conspiracy.

At last report, Lauren Salzman was working as a dog groomer.

Nancy Salzman’s former residence in Waterford, NY.

In 2017, doctors diagnosed Salzman with breast cancer, and she underwent a double radical mastectomy in 2018. Her surgery occurred while she was prosecuted for racketeering and other charges by the US Attorney for the Eastern District of NY, requiring her excuse from pretrial hearings.

After the FBI discovered child pornography on co-defendant Keith Raniere’s hard drive in February 2019, Salzman entered plea negotiations. By March 2019, she became the first of the six NXIVM co-defendants to take a plea deal, admitting to one count of racketeering conspiracy.

Four others, including her daughter Lauren, followed suit within a month, leaving only their leader Keith Raniere to stand trial. A Brooklyn jury found him guilty in June 2019. Judge Garaufis sentenced Raniere to 120 years in October 2020.

The Horizon Center is south of downtown Albany, about half a mile from the Hudson River. About 30 inmates live there, both male and female.

Federal halfway house residents have more freedom than in prison, but Salzman will have curfews, mandatory meetings, and regular check-ins with staff.

Her placement in the halfway house will give her greater access to medical treatment.
Salzman began working with Raniere in 1998, and together they founded Executive Success Programs based on Raniere’s teachings, which he called “Rational Inquiry.” Salzman became the president and led the training, consisting of a series of morning to evening classes taken from five to 16 days in succession, known as intensives.

The company later became known as NXIVM.

Keth Raniere and Nancy Salzman during the early days oif their partnership.

Last year, Salzman appeared on HBO’s The Vow, Season 2, telling viewers she repudiated her former mentor Raniere and realized he had deceived her for years. 

Nancy Salzman appeared on HBO’s The Viow season 2.,

She maintained that NXIVM was a positive educational company that taught its members or students helpful life lessons—lamenting that her work was misunderstood because of Raniere’s actions, including his secret sorority, DOS.

Salzman said on camera, “Imagine you spent 22 years trying to build something that you fully believed in and thought was good, and everybody thinks it’s the devil’s work.”

Salzman maintained she knew nothing about DOS until the Frank Report broke the news of its existence in June 2017.

The FBI raid Nancy Salzman’s house at 3 Oregon Trail., Photos courtesy Albany Times Union….

On March 27, the FBI raided Salzman’s house at 3 Oregon Trail. The raid was one day after Raniere’s arrest in Texas, following his deportation from Mexico the day before. FBI agents found more than $500,000 in cash at Salzman’s house, which agents seized. She also agreed to forfeit real estate in her name in the Albany area.

Some of the cash seized at Nancy Salzman’s home

FR hopes Salzman, if she is ailing, makes a speedy recovery, and when she returns to society, she is healed, renewed, and ready to resume her life with grace and dignity.

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    • Toni says the sister is developmentally challenged. Toni Natalie is working on the Kristin Snyder disappearance.

  • Frank Report

    Does Raniere hide shell companies through domain names: Check out this list of 475 domain names–
    July 9, 2017

    https://frankreport.com/2017/07/09/does-raniere-hide-shell-companies-through-domain-names-check-out-this-list-of-432-domain-names/

    Niagara Falls Reporter

    The Cult of NXIVM Series:
    Keith Raniere, Self-Proclaimed Smartest Man In the World and Spiritually Evolved Guru

    By Frank Parlato
    DEC 03, 2015

    https://frankreport.com/2017/07/09/does-raniere-hide-shell-companies-through-domain-names-check-out-this-list-of-432-domain-names/

  • Feank….is anyone still trying to recover the money? Or did everyone just give up collecting it or trying to find it? Any other criminal would have the irs and feds hunting for it….family members…friends…life insurance policies….she’ll companies….etc. how did Nancy et al escape forensic accounting investigation and research? Subpoena friends and family!!

    • Frank Report

      What’s in a Name – First Principles Inc. Versus First Principles Incorporated? Plus 89 Other Stupid Nxivm Companies
      March 4, 2020

      https://frankreport.com/2020/03/04/whats-in-a-name-first-principles-inc-versus-first-principles-incorporated-plus-89-other-stupid-nxivm-companies/

      I offered this list to the US Attorney for the Western District of NY in 2015 but they were not interested in investigating Bronfman-Raniere. They needed Bronfman as their victim because they wanted to indict me.

      Here is the list of companies the DOJ identified.

      Some of these have wonderfully ironic names given the current circumstances.

      1. DOS (or “The Vow” or “The Sorority”)
      2. NXIVM CORPORATION DBA ESP;
      3. FIRST PRINCIPLES INCORPORATED;
      4. FIRST PRINCIPLES INC.
      5. JNESS, LLC;
      6. THE ETHICAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION,
      7. EXO-ESO
      8. THE SOURCE
      9.ULTIMA LLC
      10. AXIOLOGY, INC.
      11. BUYER’S ADVOCATE, INC.
      12. EQUIPT CORP.
      13. NXV PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CORPORATION (NX PMC)
      14. SUNSHINE PROPERTIES, INC.
      15. ELITE HOUSING CORP.
      16. ETHICAL VALUE EXCHANGE, LLC [Great name by the way for what Raniere offered.]
      17. WEB EQUIPMENT, LLC
      18. ELITE MARKETING PROFESSIONALS, INC.
      19. POIESIS, INC.
      20. RCG CORP LLC [a Rainbow company]
      21. RAINBOW CULTURAL GARDEN, LLC
      22. PRECISION DEVELOPMENT, LLC [This was the company I recovered for the ungrateful Bronfman sisters.]
      23. ETHICAL PRINCIPLES, LLC [Lots of good ethics in Nxivm]
      24. EXECUTIVE HOUSING & PROPERTIES, INC.
      25. MOVING PIXELS, INC.
      26. MY IMAGES, INC.
      27. NX APPAREL, INC. [Who knew they had a clothing line?]
      28. NX PROPERTY MANAGEMENT CORPORATION
      29. THE ART OF MOVEMENT, INC. [Raniere employed that art when he split for Mexico.]
      30. GENERAL SERVICE PAYMENTS, INC. {This name is similar to the General Services Administration of the Fed Gov.]
      31. GENIUSES, LLC; [My personal favorite. Note that “geniuses” are plural. Who was the other genius in Nxivm?]
      32. ONE ASIAN, LLC [This was Raniere’s company for recruiting Asian women.]
      33. WORLDWIDE NODES, LLC
      34. BUNDLED ELEMENTS, LLC
      35. SURE HOLDINGS, LLC
      36. PSC I, LLC
      37. E MALLARD WEB, CORP. [This was Clare’s company for websites.]
      38. ETHICAL MEDIA, LLC
      39. WORLDWIDE NETWORK, LLC
      40. CREW HOLDINGS, LLC
      41. EXECUTIVE SUCCESS PROGRAMS, INC. (NV) [The Nevada version]
      42. ETHOLUTIONS, INC [The solution was ethics.]
      43. DON’T BE DUMB, LLC [Never ever a better name.]
      44. PLUGGED-IN TECHNOLOGIES, LLC [This was Raniere’s company whereby he would have all his followers on shared cell and computer service which was to give him the ability to spy on them. It was never fully accomplished even though Clare reportedly spent some $20 million on it.]
      45. SOCIETY OF PROTECTORS, LLS [AKA the Society of Cuckolds, a group of weakling men who were being taught how to be strong by one of the weakest men in America. The men used to refer to Raniere as Alpha Dog and Big Dog].
      46. NXV TRUST
      47. ETHOLUTIONS, INC.
      48. PRINCIPLED PRODUCTS, INC. [Wonder what their products were – whips, cages, paddles?]
      49. NXIVM PROPERTIES, LLC
      50. FOWL HOLDINGS, LLC; [Was that misspelled – should be ‘Foul’?]
      51. 2430AUT1 TRUST
      52. BBFC TRUST
      53. EMF TRUST
      54. NX TRUST, INC.
      55. APPLIED PRINCIPLES
      56. THE ROOFING COMPANY
      57. SUCCESS PROGRAMS UNLIMITED, LLC
      58. LIFE LEARNING, INC. (NV) [Could that be changed from “Life Learning” to “Life Sentence”?]
      59. WORLD AUDIENCE PRODUCTIONS, INC.
      60. WOLRD AUDIENCE PRODUCTIONS, INC.
      61. ITS ENDEAVORS, INC.
      62. MALLARD WEB CORPORATION
      63. SWEET P’S, INC.
      64. 7 SEVEN, LC,
      65. FRANKLIN, LLC
      66. ACK KNOWLEDGE, LLC [ACK stands for Alex Betancourt, Clare Bronfman and Keith Raniere.]
      67. ALOUSCH, LLC
      68. COALITION OF ETHICISTS, LLC; [I bet that’s a powerful group]
      69. DEVELOPMENT TRAINERS, LLC
      70. ESSENCE INTERACTIVE, INC.
      71. ETHICAL HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION
      72. EVENTS FOR HUMANITY, INC.
      73. ETHELETICS, LLC [This is a combination of athletics and ethics]
      74. HOUSE OF EQUUS, LLC
      75. IMPRESSIONATES, LLC
      76. OCCAM’S RAZOR, LLC
      77. OUR EVOLUTION, LLC
      78. RCG CORP LLC
      79. RCG KIDS INTERNATIONAL, LLC
      80. RETURN TO NATURE, LLC
      81. RHYTHMS OF INFLUENCE, LLC
      82. SPIRIT @ 19, INC.
      83. THE RANIERE INITIATIVE, LLC
      84. TRUTH, LLC [A great and simple name Truth LLC – founded by a very ethical and truthful lying savage criminal]
      85. VEINTE-SEIZ, LLC
      86. VILLAGE HALL LLC
      87. WISDOM SYSTEMS, LLC [This is one of the Bronfmans’ hair-brained companies. A lot of wisdom they have too.]
      88. WORLDWIDE NODES LLC
      89. ACK MANAGEMENT PTE LTD [This, I believe, is the management company for the Wakaya Island, Fiji, resort.]
      90. NXIVN MEXICO SA DE CV
      91. ACK WAKAYA HOLDINGS LLC [This is the company that owns the property in Fiji – abut 80 percent of Wakaya Island.]

  • Several Frank Report readers have asked questions about Horizon House – which will be where Nancy Salzman will be living starting next month. To begin with, it is located in Albany’s notorious South End – which many consider to be the most dangerous part of the city. Located right behind the Capital City Rescue Mission, Horizon House is a 42-bed facility that houses both men and women who are, per the facility’s website, “transitioning from federal incarceration back into New York and Vermont communities.”

    In reality, Horizon House has been described as “a real drug-infested hell-hole” that perpetually smells like piss, that houses a high percentage of people who have been convicted of sex crimes, and that even the residents of the Capital City Rescue Mission won’t go near. And the funny thing is that Nancy Salzman – who will likely be the only white female in residence there – will only make it worse.

    “Be careful what you ask for…”

  • Didn’t Nanat Loshin Saltzman vacation on Necker Island?

    So did the Obama!
    HIDDEN FOOTAGE OF BARACK & MICHELLE OBAMA ON NECKER ISLAND ⚠️

  • In case Allison Mack gets nostaalgic for the good old days of DCI:
    4K] San Francisco 📍 Full ride on BART to Dublin/Pleasanton Station 🚇 Bay Area Rapid Transit

  • I’m a similar age to Nancy.
    Her life career, integrity, character is ashes. There is nothing she can do to repair the harm she was a party to. I doubt she will live long. People without purpose rarely do.
    I’m glad she was released. I hope she can enjoy her remaining time with her daughters.

    • She does have a purpose: she could come clean about all the crimes–legal and ethical–that Vanturd committed. She could make a list of every person he made her and the Bronfmans go after, a very good indicator of who he had harmed and was trying to silence. There’s a very long list of victims, and Nancy is well aware of who they all are. Let her come clean about all the “damage control” she partipated in, and shed a light on who was paid or ordered to target whom. Revealing all would keep her very busy for a long time. That’s the best purpose she could have.

    • Bullshit. Keith trapped her and she fell for it. Just like many others. Didn’t have the balls to say “no, Keith I’m not storing bags of cash in my house for you”. She’s either not the strong person she pretends to be, or she’s a pure criminal. No normal person keeps giant bags of cash in their house like that. It’s weird. Rich people generally have special private banking. Boxes and bags of cash is neither normal nor safe.

      • What are you talking about, “not safe”? That cash was safe from the IRS! It was safe from the unpaid labour looking for a handout! It was safe from the evil governmental banking system! It was safe from being traced! Isn’t the closet where the most “honest” and “ethical” people in the world keep their money?

        • You are a broken record with this point and way off. Her brother in law and her have always hated each other. . They never had a relationship and never will. So where are you getting this from? He may brag but he’s full of it too.

          • Where are you getting the info they hate each other? Heard they spent alot of time together in cranford nj and where Nancy’s sister lives.

        • You really seem to want to throw this guy under the bus. What did he do to you to deserve that and how do you know about where he spends family time?

          • You wrote : “Her brother in law and her have always hated each other. . They never had a relationship and never will. He may brag but he’s full of it too.”

            So…how do YOU know so much about Steven Kass?

            As I see it….where there is smoke there is fire and you seem to defend this guy…unless you are defending yourself.

    • Who hasn’t Vanguard lied to or cheated and fooled?
      For someone who has betrayed him, why is Vanguard so generous and forgiving? There is a very simple way to explain this. Nancy Salzman knows too much. She was his main accomplice in this RICO crime and his main business partner from the beginning. And Raniere would be strong and selfless if he were the opposite of the weak and selfish Nancy Salzman. And Raniere is definitely not that at all. He is weak and totally selfish, a little pudgy, cowardly, lying wretch.

  • Narcissists have no compassion towards other people, which they claim only for themselves, because they believe they are entitled to get whatever they want. And if they don’t get it, it is the fault of others. And others are supposed to pity the narcissists when they are wronged, even when it is clearly not the case. That is their claim on others, because they are special, they must be treated special. I’m thinking of Keith right now, not to mention Nancy. Yes, they are special, but only because of their criminal energy and their crimes.
    I have no sympathy for Nancy or for Keith. I don’t care about either of them. Let them serve their sentences until the end. Whatever the end is.

  • I remember that Prefect Nancy Saltzman would compel members of the NXIVM CULT TO DONAYTE LAVISHLY TO HER OPULRNT BIRTHDAY PARTIES.
    jOE O’Hara: Nancy Salzman had $250,000 birthday party – hired Joan Osborne to sing

    :LIKE A MONDERN DAY MARIE ANTONOINETTE.

    ONE YEAR JOAN OSBORNE WAS HIRED TO SING TO NANCY OF GO/D
    !wHEN ien I thinjk of the members of NXIVM i DO NIOT TG=HINK OF g=g=OD, i THINK OF SATAN.

    mY BIRTHDAY IS APPTPACHING. i HOPE IT COSTS LESS THAN 250,0000 DOLLARS.

  • “FR hopes Salzman, if she is ailing, makes a speedy recovery, and when she returns to society, she is healed, renewed, and ready to resume her life with grace and dignity.”
    -Frank Report

    The Frank Report might be more magnanimous than Jesus Christ.
    ***

    “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”
    (Jesus, Luke 23:34)

    Sorry Frank, Nancy knew what she was doing every step of the way. She is evil.

    • Nice Guy, the only person more forgiving than me is Scott – he forgave you and after what you did to him…

      • We could forgive manson….hitler….dahmer…Gacy…ripper…capone…luciano…escobar….. too. Nancy was complicit and knew. She was racketeering at the minimum. I mean…if Nancy actually attones for her sins….goes to temple…sets up an anti cult training or educational non profit….then maybe we can forgive. But more importantly…how about just be honest…admit what you did and just say sorry…instead of still believing in and protecting what you did.

  • Con artist cons Judge Garaufis for the win.

    “Imagine spending 22 years building something good”, she says, her halo gleaming. Juxtaposed with photos of the half million in cash she had stashed under the floorboards.

    Gotta love it.

  • What a joke
    I hope it’s another hell hole for Salzman for her remaining 10 month stay there.
    You can bet she will attempt every trick in the book to get out of staying there and to get home confinement.
    Salzman is an entitled dog.
    She got off light with the Judge
    Odds are she will start up her EM business right away & request to make visits to see her mom
    She will have to stop by her sister’s to collect some of those funds her brother in law is hiding for her.

    • Michelle salzman myers already still does coaching with Kim constable. They can’t and won’t stop. They don’t know any other way of making honest money. It’s all they know.

  • Frank, would love to know Mark Vicente’s thoughts on Nancy? Do you know if he has any ounce of forgiveness to her? I read his statement to the judge on Nancy. It was scathing. Even more scathing than the one Mark wrote about KR.
    Curious to know if Mark has gone down the path of forgiveness similar to the one his partner Sarah is on.

  • … Pilate’s title of Prefect implies that his duties were primarily military; however, Pilate’s troops were meant more as a police than a military force, and Pilate’s duties extended beyond military matters …

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Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist.

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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