Plaintiff Keith Raniere, represented by his counsel Arthur Aidala, has submitted a motion to the US District Court for the District of Arizona.
Raniere’s motion requests an extension to the Response in Opposition to the Motion for Summary Judgment by the US Bureau of Prisons.
The current deadline is October 16, 2023, and the proposed new deadline is November 16, 2023, or another suitable date as determined by the Court.
The reason for the request is the counsel’s difficulty communicating with Raniere, because his prison, USP Tucson, is on lockdown and visits are suspended.
Raniere is suing various federal officials in his suit against the treatment he received at USP Tucson.
He alleges that the warden and other officials have engaged in systematic efforts to block his access to his legal counsel and power of attorney to consult on his Rule 33 motion for a new trial based on allegations that the FBI allegedly tampered with evidence to win a 2019 conviction on racketeering conspiracy based in part on predicate acts of possession of child porn and sexual exploitation of a minor.
Aidala, who represents Raniere in the Rule 33 motion in Brooklyn federal court and his civil suit against the BOP in Arizona, has stated that the lockdown conditions at USP Tucson, where Raniere, 63, is serving a 120-year sentence, have made it impossible to meet and consult with Raniere on his opposition to the BOP’s motion to dismiss his civil lawsuit.
Aidala told US Senior District Court Judge Raner Collins for the District of Arizona that this is his third request for an extension due to communication challenges with his client.
The reason for the lockdown at USP Tucson is not publicly known.
The BOP website for USP Tucson posts the following:
“Visiting at the US Penitentiary (USP) has been suspended until further notice.”
In Brooklyn, Judge Nicholas Garaufis has granted several extensions for Raniere’s reply to the US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York’s opposition papers on his Rule 33 motion.
If the lockdown continues, Aidala may request another extension from Judge Garaufis, extending the deadline beyond its current due date of October 30.
In Arizona, Judge Collins may grant the extension based on the legal principle that guarantees a prisoner’s right to counsel post-conviction, derived from the Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution.
It is well established that inmates have the right to call, write, and meet with their attorneys. It is unclear whether the lockdown prevents calls and written communications with Raniere and his attorney.
If there are written communications, it will be by mail.
Because of his convictions, including the crime of sex trafficking, the BOP has barred Raniere from using the internet.
USP Tucson is one of the few federal high-security prisons that house many sex offenders. With a Sex Offender Management Program (SOMP), USP Tucson provides specialized treatment programs for them. These treatment programs require the inmate to acknowledge their status as a sex offender, a step Raniere refuses to take.
The BOP’s decision to assign him to USP Tucson stems from his conviction on sex offenses, including the sexual exploitation of a 15-year-old girl, where photographs were discovered stored on a hard drive in his library.
Raniere alleges the FBI manipulated these photos and tampered with metadata, backdating creation dates, making the subject appear younger than her actual age.
Raniere’s defense claims the subject, now 32, has an ageless quality that belies her youthful appearance in photographs. The subject herself, identified in court records by her first name, Camila, has stated she was 15 when Raniere started taking explicit photographs of her. She did not testify at Raniere’s trial.
The photos above and below are reputedly Keith Raniere’s intake mugshot when he came to the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center, believed to be taken in April 2018.
Judge Garaufis denied all three of Raniere’s bail applications. He remained at the MDC for 13 months awaiting trial. He spent six weeks more during his trial, being transported to and from the court by US Marshalls.
Subsequent to his conviction in June, he spent another year and a half before the BOP transferred him to USP Tucson.
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“With a Sex Offender Management Program (SOMP), USP Tucson provides specialized treatment programs for them. These treatment programs require the inmate to acknowledge their status as a sex offender, a step Raniere refuses to take.”
Of course Raniere would refuse any sex offender treatment because he is a PSYCHOPATH and does not believe his has done wrong
“With a Sex Offender Management Program (SOMP), USP Tucson provides specialized treatment programs for them. These treatment programs require the inmate to acknowledge their status as a sex offender, a step Raniere refuses to take.”
Of course Raniere would refuse any sex offender treatment because he is a PSYCHOPATH and does not believe his has done wrong
The judge has not. granted an extension.
What can that mean?
Maybe the government will come back with this is totally BS.
I wonder if the cult of Keith would have gone into the direction of arming themselves with guns and weaponry if they were still around today? It seems that most cults have an endgame vibe about them. Perhaps a suicide, mass deaths, or sending all the blackmail photos to PornHub or some other graphic website.
It’s easy to forget about Keith. He has no allure, in the manner Manson had. Not that I was ever any fan of those weirdos. But, I do like to think how silent the leafy streets of Albany are at night. No orc footsteps echoing down the roads, asking women to drink out of puddles, or having to listen to hours of his word salad monologues. How quiet and serene Albany must be without those toxic people stinking it up. Bet the house prices went up.
Keith is literally, the most dull, uninteresting, bland, asswipe who ever lived.
Without Vanguard’s conviction — with the open border as it is — what would the Mormon ranch be doing now?
Would “READY!” sex slave numbers have grown exponentially in the USA, Mexico and at that well-armed Mormon ranch? Is Arizona right over the southern border the last place he should be?
The Vanguard’s “NXIVM” cult/political experiment failed. NXIVM’s goals to fool large populations into going along with the schemes of Clare, Sara and Nancy — and/or whoever else was behind the scenes — didn’t help the bad people who are trying to rule the world. Keith probably knows too much the way Charlie Manson knew too much. His future in prison will probably mirror Charlie Manson’s experiences. May those who “NXIVM” tricked into abandoning their families, religions, cultures and communities never be fooled again.
And, may the next deceitful cult to fail be the “Neotrance and the Psychedelic Festival” cult/music trend.
If it turns out that Nazi/CIA/“Epstein-style “Intelligence” agents are behind that global trance music cult, Mr. Dershowitz and Mr. Pattis will probably want to represent the culprits and Dr. Elizabeth Loftus will be an expert witness at the criminal trials. What a circus that whole thing is too. Thank goodness people are waking up and seeing how we’ve all been played in so many ways for so long.
Graham St. John from the University of Regina in Queensland is an expert in psytrance music/drug festivals. The “festival” interrupted with what looks like a massive violent political operation was one of those “festivals”.
Maybe the author of the book, CHAOS knows if Nazis and/or CIA were “Intelligence” behind that global operation that fooled so many. Tom O’Neill wrote the book, CHAOS. He researched and found out which individuals supplied the “intelligence”, the drugs and the psychological experiments in the Manson case in America in the 1970s.
Did LSD produce the same results in the same kinds of experiments in Goa around that same time? Probably.
Maybe the Dalai Lama knows more about what happened there. A New York Times October 2, 1998 article tells us: “… Dalai Lama’s administration acknowledges that it received $1.7 million a year in 1960’s from CIA, but denies reports that Tibetan leader benefited personally from an annual subsidy of $180,000 …”
Information from Graham St. John:
“ … Of relevance here is Michel Maffesoli’s (1996) theory of “de-individualisation”, a model of contemporary social life which attempts to explain the Dionysian commitment among Europeans for assembling and reassembling in passionate ‘neo-tribes’ complementary to, or in place of, crumbling traditional institutions (e.g. Church, nuclear-family, clan, etc). …”
“… While cultural Marxist and other models have typically dismissed the activities of bohemians, freaks, expatriates, anarchists and other middle class enigmas who reek of bourgeois pretense, or unproductive escapism, the subject of countercultural mobility and the nomadic utopia has not gone unnoticed by cultural researchers. …”
“… While the vibe might approximate a religious experience for participants, it is of the kind one seeks to reproduce without necessarily being “religious” in the way this is commonly understood (i.e. as institutionalised). The experience is perhaps more pre- cisely spiritual in the sense of the “spiritualities of life” which Paul Heelas (see Heelas and Seel 2003) observes downstream from the turn to subjective or “expressive life” of the 1960s associated with what Thomas Luckmann identified as “secondary institutions” (see Lynch and Badger 2006), and away from the “dictated life” of primary institutions. …”
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/3e94/a89d847a62c3177310f729d935419ecc2ad4.pdf
Out of Egypt. Then to war. War 24/7 … “psytrance” to liminality, then slavery once again. Wake up, people.
“… All Israelis are supposed to enlist for The Israeli Defence Forces as soon as they turn 18. The men have to serve for three years while women need to serve for about two before they can pursue higher education. The military requires discipline, commitment and continuous hard work, after which most Israelis choose to travel and live a more laid-back life with fewer rules, away from the country they grew up in. According to a report in Jewish Journal about a documentary on Israeli Soldier men. “After being discharged with a bonus of 15,000 shekels (about $4,300) after three years of compulsory military service, an estimated 20,000 former Israeli soldiers travel to India. About 90 percent take drugs and 2,000 of the Israeli ex-soldiers living in India ‘flip out’ each year.” … Yoav Shamir, director of the 2007 documentary Flipping Out, knows a thing or two about what it really means to be entrenched … trance music blares …
https://homegrown.co.in/homegrown-voices/tracking-down-flipped-out-israelis-in-india
Destroy life to rebuild it.
Destroy nations to “Build Back Better”.
What kind of people control the world with war and deceit?
More out of work delusional losers should dance outside of KR’s current “home”. Perhaps that will do the trick for them to release the lockdown. Morons. 🤣
Using a dead man’s name makes you a winner?
At least they have talent.
on Bob Weir’s birthday you shouldve used his name
Is KR still in the SHU?
Is Vanguard in the SHU?
Yes!
Is old mother hubbard still in the shoe?
BOP published Clare Bronfman’s updated mug-shot:
ROFL 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣
Omg 😂
LMAO!!!!
LOL!!! I got such a great laugh when I saw it. Thanks for the hearty laugh.
My pleasure 😊
See Amway Boy about that.
Thought that was Nancy.
Doesn’t matter to Suneel. He is still smitten.
She improved in prison apparently.