What is NXIVM?

Looking at comments posted online in forums from people who claimed to have met/seen Keith Raniere and/or took NXIVM courses, a curious picture emerges.

Becca Friedman, an ex-NXIVM member recounts her time at NXIVM. [Previously published in Saratoga in Decline Sept. 2010]

This photo-shopped ‘artwork’ was submitted by Mariana Contrares.

To see the print version CULT OF NXIVM PART 9: A BOILING POT OF POISON STEW as it appeared in Artvoice click here:

The case of the People of The State of New York against Barbara Bouchey is a mountain made out of a molehill.

The founder of NXIVM, Keith Raniere, has spent, I would estimate, about $2 million to sue and criminally prosecute two of his ex-lovers and a former consultant for trespassing on a password protected NXIVM website.

Several readers have commented that my series on Shmuel Shmueli must be a fabrication.

A reader writes

A reader writes:

Clues are everywhere. Today’s clue is E-mallard.

This document, filed with the courts, in Barbara Bouchey’s computer trespass case [something that is giving Keith Raniere a lot of joy] shows how the wheels of justice got convoluted in her prosecution.

Sarah Edmondson quotes Keith Raniere for her thought of the day on her webpage http://www.sarahedmondson.com/my-work/acting/ :

Here is a note to the frankreport from Christine Marie, who met Keith Raniere in 1998:

A reader writes to ask:

Some fascinating information has come to my knowledge concerning the possibility of perjury by Keith Raniere and minions, Clare Bronfman, Steve Ose, Ben T. Meyers and most importantly Karen Unterreiner.

A former NXIVM insider told us this story about Keith Raniere.

Earlier this month, the notorious conman Shmuel Shmueli was evicted from a Niagara Falls luxury condo at the Parkway Condominiums on Buffalo Ave.––but not until after he stayed in the condo for free for a year. Artvoice previously identified 25 lawyers that Shmueli conned out of legal services. We’v

(The following story will appear in print and online in Artvoice and the Niagara Falls Reporter on Thursday Jan. 21, 2016. It is a story announcing this website.)

In NXIVM’s effort to destroy Barbara Bouchey – making a criminal computer trespass case out of a molehill visit to a social media website – while ignoring a mountain of potential evidence against NXIVM founder Keith Raniere – certain facts have come to light.

Born and raised in a low-income housing project in South Troy, NY., Barbara J. Bouchey’s mother died when she was eight years old. Her father was an alcoholic. Two of her three brothers were mentally disabled.

This is from Keith Raniere’s bio on http://www.keithraniere.com :

A curious and skeptical reader wanted to know how NXIVM, the Vanguard, Keith Raniere, and the Bronfmans, abuse the legal system as has been suggested in the frankreport.

Another word on Pam Cafritz

Keith Raniere refers to Pam Cafritz as his “heartlove” when pitching other women for a romp in the boudoir. He has to call her something since Pam was often his “wing” woman, using her skills to persuade women and evidently sometimes children to sleep with Raniere.