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Forbes Says Vítek Is Worth $7.2 Billion. The Numbers Say Otherwise
His Forbes-reported net worth is $7.1 billion, making him the 542nd richest person in the world, according to Forbes, and 6th richest in his native Czech Republic.

His Forbes-reported net worth is $7.1 billion, making him the 542nd richest person in the world, according to Forbes, and 6th richest in his native Czech Republic.

The US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York has filed a letter with the court seeking restitution for the victims of Keith Raniere. The letter was filed under seal and accompanied by restitution claims made by individuals who say Raniere harmed them.

Editor’s note: I do not know what readers will make of this. Perhaps Suneel has a mind of his own. He was asked to do a critique of Keith Raniere’s biography and was taunted by Bangkok, who claimed he would not be able to say anything negative about it. And lo and behold, Suneel not only accepted th

Change.org is a petition website, used by more than 400 million people to date, whose mission is to “empower people everywhere to create the change they want to see.”

The following is a guest view by an anonymous commenter who titled it “Will Vanguard Rise Again?”

Suneel Chakravorty is a supporter and advocate for Keith Raniere, a man convicted of federal crimes including sex trafficking, forced labor and racketeering with predicate acts of possession of child porn [about 20 pictures of a then-15-year-old girl] and sexual exploitation of a minor [he allegedly

Editor’s Note: The author of this post, Scott Cohn, is, among his other professional duties, a special correspondent for the true financial crime series “ American Greed .” I worked with Cohn on the American Greed episode ‘ Nightmare at NXIVM’ which premieres Monday, Jan. 25, on CNBC at 10 p.m. EST.
Susan Dones’s post, When I First Saw Sara Bronfman She Was Kissing and Hugging on Edgar Boone Right in the Training, gave readers a glimpse of a Seagram’s heiress Sara Bronfman, aged about 25, at an Executive Success Programs intensive in what may have been 2002.

Investigation Discovery’s “The Lost Women of NXIVM” was a two hour film featuring Frank Parlato, the investigative journalist who first revealed that NXIVM was branding women, as he takes a deep dive to answer the questions surrounding the tragic deaths and mysterious disappearances of four women wh

Keith Raniere is expected to appeal his conviction to the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit within the next few months.