Because, apparently, the world has not yet heard enough from

HBO,
Starz,
Investigation Discovery,
The New York Times,
CBC,
Vanity Fair,
The Frank Report

He announces a NXIVM docuseries with the pomp of Caesar crossing the Rubicon. Here is this from his  Instagram account.

 DOCUSERIES ANNOUNCEMENT

By James McGibney of BullyVille fame:

“Coming soon: http://www.nxivm.com

“The story of NXIVM has been told by the media, by the prosecutors, and by the self-proclaimed heroes. But those accounts often fail to highlight the true protagonists: the women who survived, testified, and broke the cult’s elaborate system of control.

“If you were the victim of the NXIVM sex cult (especially if you were the victim of convicted felon, Frank Parlato) and want to come on camera to tell your story, please feel free to reach out. This docuseries will be aired on a MAJOR platform.

“I find it so interesting that convicted felon, and pedophile supporter, Frank Parlato, likes to take the credit for taking down NXIVM. But that’s a lie, he didn’t take down shit.

“Frank was employed by NXIVM and covered his own ass once the truth started to come out about the perverted and despicable things that were happening to these women and young girls.

“The victims of NXIVM are the true heroes, who paid the ultimate price to fight the cult’s legal machine, reclaim their bodies, and expose Keith Raniere and Frank Parlato for the frauds they were, and still are, to this day.

“And yes, I own the website http://www.nxivm.com. I’m building it out over the next couple of weeks.”

My Comments on This Development  

This is wonderful news. Finally, someone – and a genius no less- is going to do a documentary on how I ran NXIVM.

McGibney — a man so informed about NXIVM that: He thinks branding happened on the back

The image he posted shows a woman being branded on the shoulder blade like a cattle auction.

Actually, DOS branding was done on the pelvic region, below the bikini line.

Something that has been documented in:
  HBO’s The Vow
  Starz’s Seduced
  Every news article for seven years
  Court transcripts
  Victim testimony
  The federal trial of Raniere

The Frank Report, including the first public announcement of branding in 2017

But no, McGibney — Doctor of Make-Believe — discovered something new. I am going to help him get his facts straight.

HIS FIRST AND BIGGEST ERROR: BASIC HISTORY

McGibney claims I “worked for NXIVM until it all came out.”

McGibney’s announcement makes me sound like I was a central NXIVM figure—some kind of Raniere lieutenant who “covered his own ass” when things got hot.

The reality? I worked four months as a consultant from October 2007  through January 2008 on a real estate project in Los Angeles. I left. Seven years later, in 2015, DOS was created. Two years after that, I broke the branding story that brought them down.

But facts have never been McGibney’s strong suit.

Reality:

I worked for four months, ending in January 2008.

I left long before DOS existed (DOS began in 2015).

I was the first journalist in the world to publish the branding story in 2017.

I was credited for exposing Raniere in:

• The New York Times
• HBO
• Investigation Discovery
• Starz
• CBC
• Vice
• Every major outlet that covered NXIVM

Someone should tell Dr. McGibney that Google exists, and he should try using the “real internet,” not that cartoon hamster wheel he thinks the internet runs on.

SECOND ERROR: THE “VICTIMS OF FRANK PARLATO” FANTASY

McGibney invites “victims of Frank Parlato” from the NXIVM cult to come forward.

This would require:

• A victim
• Of me
• Inside NXIVM
• That I was exposing
• In 2017
• After I had left the organization nine years earlier

One hesitates to remark upon the absurdity, but McGibney’s comment is so exquisitely misguided it deserves preservation in print.

THIRD ERROR: CALLING ME A PEDOPHILE SUPPORTER

While McGibney calls me a “pedophile supporter,” and includes Raniere among those I support. Stupidity like his is not typically found in nature. He must have worked very hard at it.

Factually, NXIVM’s founder, Keith Raniere — the actual pedophile — attacked me personally, funded lawsuits and criminal complaints against me, and called me “dangerous”  because I was exposing him. He actually forbade his followers from reading the Frank Report, which was the only outlet to write about his branding of women for months.

The federal government praised my reporting and used it to get search warrants in Mexico to apprehend Raniere.
HBO documented it. Media outlets cited it.

The pedophile supported me the way a cat supports the water hose aimed at it.

FOURTH ERROR: CLAIMING HE’LL AIR A “MAJOR” DOCUSERIES

McGibney promises the docuseries will be aired on a “MAJOR platform.”

Which one?

• YouTube?
• Vimeo?
• AOL Video?
• MySpace TV?

He says he’s building www.nxivm.com.

Great.

He bought a domain name that Keith didn’t renew. Congratulations, Jim — you own the world’s least profitable URL.

FIFTH ERROR: CALLING HIMSELF THE PROTECTOR OF WOMEN

McGibney, the self-anointed Sheriff of the Internet, has:

• Lost in court for defamation
• Been sanctioned
• Been exposed for false claims of military valor
• Been caught doctoring documents
• Victimized thousands of women on Cheaterville and later Bullyville
• And now positions himself as the curator of NXIVM victimhood.

It’s like watching a mall cop announce he’s taking over the Pentagon.

THE SUMMARY

The man can’t tell the difference between:

• A pelvic-branding sex cult
• And a shoulder-branding cattle ranch
• A whistleblower
• And a cult lieutenant
• A major platform
• And “a guy I met on Discord who says he works at Netflix.”

McGibney calling me a fraud is the projection comedy event of the month.

Convicted Felon

Clare Bronfman with the man she partnered with, Keith Raniere.

Something Right At Last

He did get one thing right. McGibney calls me a “convicted felon” as if it’s a mark of shame. Here’s what actually happened:

In 2015, Keith Raniere directed Clare Bronfman to file a criminal complaint against me with the FBI. They claimed I defrauded NXIVM of $1 million. The government indicted me on 19 counts of wire fraud, conspiracy, etc.

I responded by starting Frank Report. I exposed the branding. I exposed Raniere. I turned the tables.

Sara Bronfman fled the country. Clare Bronfman was arrested and sentenced to 81 months in federal prison. Keith Raniere got 120 years.

When my trial approached, the U.S. Attorney dismissed all 19 felony counts. In their place, I pleaded to a single non-statutory violation: failing to file IRS Form 8300 for cash transactions totaling less than $20,000. Not the millions they’d accused me of stealing—a paperwork violation.

The judge sentenced me to one year of probation with five months of winter home confinement in the Florida Keys. No ankle monitor. Four hours daily on my boat for “hydrotherapy.” Freedom to enjoy the grounds, the fresh air, the sunshine.

At the same time, the two who started it all were enjoying a different kind of sentence: Raniere was in the SHU, and Clare Bronfman was cleaning toilets and shoveling snow at the Philadelphia Detention Center.

So yes, technically I’m a convicted felon.

But the people who filed the complaint against me? Raniere is in federal prison for another 95 years, and Bronfman just got out and is on probation.

I spent five months decompressing on a boat in Florida. 

McGibney can call me whatever he wants. But he should ask himself: who won?

As for his chances of getting a major platform to do yet another NXIVM documentary, the odds are about one in a million.

And like the guy in Dumb and Dumber, McGibney says, “so I have a chance then?”

McGibney is a man who faked his educational and military credentials and now claims to be making a ‘MAJOR platform’ NXIVM docuseries, which he promoted with an AI-generated image that gets the most basic fact wrong: where the branding happened.

McGibney promotes his ‘victim-centered’ docuseries after a career of exploiting women.

Cheaterville (2011-2015): Monetized women’s humiliation, charged them to remove posts

Bullyville (2015-present): Exposed and humiliated “bad actors” for clicks and payments.

And now he wishes to cast himself as the champion of NXIVM’s survivors. A noble cause, to be sure, though somewhat incongruous coming from a man whose prior professional pursuits included monetizing women’s humiliation for profit.

McGibney promotes his docuseries with this AI-generated image:

Odd, the gaunt face in the AI image looks more like McGibney than Raniere. I submit he might be planning to star in his own docuseries.

The fake Marine/fake doctor playing the fake scientist/phony guru.

Both built followings on false credentials, both exploited women, and both created systems of humiliation.

McGibney may be closer to Raniere than he realizes. 

That said, stay tuned for his docuseries. It’s gonna be a laugh riot. I will be promoting the hell out of it.

(Note: Paying for musicial scores in documentaries is expensive. I will compose some of the cues for him for free. Here is one – the musical cue for McGibney asking women for money to take down thier photos on Cheaterville. It’s called the “Moral Highground.”

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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