The Prefect’s Come Home; Nancy Salzman Begins Three Years of Probation But Judge Consents to Possible Shorter Term

Nancy Salzman, the president and co-founder of NXIVM, is home. Home being Clifton Park, NY, a suburb of Albany.

She served 24 months of her 42-month sentence, the last six in a halfway house in Albany, and the first 18 months in the Federal Correctional Institution, Hazelton, in West Virginia.

She is currently on probation.

Last week, Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis assigned Salzman’s probation supervision to the Northern District of NY, where Salzman lives, ending his control of her life.

In relinquishing his role as supervising judge, Garaufis, who sentenced Salzman to three years of probation, wrote that “the period of probation… may be changed by the District Court to which this transfer is made without further inquiry of this court.”

Unlike Clare Bronfman, who remains in prison, Salzman clearly left the world of NXIVM and, more particularly, the man she adored for 20 years, Keith Alan Raniere.

She denounced him as part of her sentencing record and got a substantially lighter sentence than Bronfman, who refused to denounce her worshipful master and got hit with 81 months. However, her crimes of conviction were less severe than Salzman’s racketeering plea.

Only Bronfman and the Grand Master Raniere remain in prison among the six NXIVM defendants.

When Judge Garaufis sentenced Salzman in 2021, he ordered special conditions for her probation.

• She will “undergo a mental health evaluation, and if deemed necessary, participate in an outpatient mental health treatment program as approved by the probation department.”
• Salzman “shall not attempt to contact in person, or communicate with by letter, telephone, electronic means, or through a third party, any individual (other than immediate family) with an affiliation to executive success programs, NXIVM, DOS or any other NXIVM-affiliated organizations; nor shall the defendant frequent any establishment, or other locale where these groups may meet pursuant, but not limited to, a prohibition list provided by the probation department.”
• Salzman “shall cooperate with the US Probation Department in the investigation and approval of any position of self-employment, including any independent, entrepreneurial, or freelance employment or business activity. If approved for self-employment, the defendant shall provide the US Probation Department with full disclosure of her self-employment and other business records.”

There is no specific prohibition on her returning to her work as a therapist, teacher, life coach, and leader of a high-control executive success style company led by the smartest and most ethical man in the world, during her probation, whether three years or less. But it may undergo some scrutiny.

Salzman won a significant reduction in prison time. If she can impress the good folks in the Northern District Probation Department that she is worthy of unfettered release, she may succeed in reducing her probation to a year or less.

In March 2018, FBI agents raided Salzman’s house and seized $520,000 in cash stuffed in bags, envelopes, and shoe boxes. She favored one shoe box more than others, which held $390,180.

The $520,000 was surprisingly small sum compared to what she told NXIVM members that she kept stashed at home, which she said was usually more than one million. One NXIVM insider who helped collect and secrete cash told Frank Report that she believed Salzman had more than $4 million stashed at her home.

Since the raid came after Raniere’s arrest, Salzman may have known enough to wisely transfer the bulk of her cash to another more secure location to keep it from prying eyes and greedy hands, and only kept a portion of the funds at her home.

In addition to her two years in custody, Salzman paid a $150,000 fine and forfeited several real estate properties, including Raniere’s sex lair and library at 8 Hale Drive, Halfmoon, New York, and the NXIVM headquarters and other buildings at 447, 455, and 457 New Kamer Road, Albany.

It remains unclear whether the government took Raniere’s library of books, his music collection and his hot tub which lamentably fell through the floor sometime after Raniere dashed off to Mexico for a well-deserved vacation in 2017.

Also significantly, Salzman gave up her ownership of First Principles Incorporated, a Delaware corporation that owned the rights to teach the greatness that is Vanguard’s NXIVM curriculum. This means that the American people own the priceless teachings.

Salzman also agreed to forfeit her Vanguard-prince’s Steinway grand piano, which usually sat un-played in Salzman’s living room, where the lord Raniere would come and play Moonlight Sonata, which may be the only song he knew how to play and is the only song anyone ever heard him play.

However, there are conflicting reports about his abilities on the piano since Raniere himself claimed that he played concert-level piano at the age of 12. A check of all available records has failed to turn up any notice of any concerts the prodigy would have played in 1972-3 when he was 12 or, for that matter, any other year.

The feds also kept the $520,000 in US dollars they grabbed at her house.

Since it is not mentioned in the forfeiture notice, they may remit back to Salzman the $60,000 in Russian rubles [$971 US dollars] they seized.

Frank Parlato

Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.

Frank Parlato

Frank Parlato is an investigative journalist, media strategist, publisher, and legal consultant.

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