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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.

On Friday, October 12th, Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis granted Clare Bronfman’s request to allow the heiress to accompany her lawyer, Kathleen E. Cassidy , on a trip to the Albany/Clifton Park area in the Northern District of New York – on October 16-17, 2018.

It looks like Allison Mack is “all-in.” Maybe she doesn’t have a choice. The charges against her are serious and perhaps she has not been offered a plea bargain she can even remotely live with.

On October 3, 2018, the government sought an order from the court that it be permitted to distribute to Keith Raniere, Allison Mack, Lauren Salzman, Clare Bronfman and Kathy Russell, full forensic copies of contents of electronic devices (e.g., computers, external hard drives, smartphones, and thumb

As of Friday, October 12, there are 170 court filings in the matter of the USA v. Raniere, Mack, Bronfman, Salzman, Salzman & Russell. A review of the latest ones may be of interest to readers.

A few new filings this week — the most interesting of which concern

In 2007, a suspicious survey for college students emerged that was hosted on a website registered to Karen Unterreiner [Etholoutions.com]. Unterreiner is a notorious High Rank of NXIVM and longest serving harem member of Grandmaster Keith Raniere.

Here was a comment following my post “People putting intense heat on me to ban Scott Johnson & detractors” It was from someone using the moniker “ Scottie’s daddy”:

The comments’ thread on a story about John Tighe seemed to be going pretty well until the subject of Scott Johnson got in the way. For those of you who don’t know – Scott is a former Amway member who learned that the nation’s largest MLM company was not meant to do anything but enrich its top-level

If something is not prohibited, one is free to do it.

The following is a comment by a reader using the moniker No Sympathy for the Vanguard. Because the comment advances the debate over actress Kristin Kreuk’s role in NIXVM, I moved it from the comment section and edited it to conform to the style of a post.

Although there has been a good deal of speculation about what type of punishment might be meted out to Keith Raniere and his co-defendants should they be found guilty or accept plea deals, most of it has focused on how long they might be incarcerated: 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 20 years, life?