Editor’s note: I have not and never have been in communication with anyone from the Eastern District of New York Department of Justice. My source in this story is a lawyer familiar with the case.

Keith Alan Raniere – known to the world as Vanguard – was before Judge Nicholas Garaufis today for his Curcio Hearing.

Shades of Ben Szemkus!

I was happy to get this email from one Jason Francis, of Clarksburg, MA, offering the glad tidings that we may indeed have a new Vanguard to replace the one who is presently in pretrial custody in Brooklyn.

According to the New York Post, Democratic Socialist party member and US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “scolded media outlets for reporting that she lives in a luxury high-rise building in Washington, DC, around the time she and other high-profile Democrats appeared on a hit list compiled by a Maryl

Think what you want about all of the things that Keith Raniere claimed he did or could do – e.g., East Coast judo champion at age 12, understood quantum physics at age 4, tied the New York State record in the 100-yard dash, etc., etc., etc. – but perhaps the most amazing thing about him is what he g

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[Editor’s Note: Although we know the name of the person in question in this post, we have chosen not to publish it because they are a potential witness in the case of U.S. v. Raniere Et Al. In general, that is the same policy that we have followed since charges were formally filed against the defend

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With things now returning to normal at MDC – which should never be confused with the term “normal” as it applies to the real world – we are, once again, getting reports on how Keith Alan Raniere AKA The Vanguard AKA Federal Prisoner 57005-177 AKA Crybaby Jane is faring in the confines of the Metropo

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Why the FBI regards NXIVM as Organized Crime

Following Frank Report’s publication of the story entitled, ‘Albany area State Trooper lies in court, is caught; sex offender gets 10 years shaved off sentence’, the story of a New York State Trooper who lied on the witness stand and was caught – but probably won’t be punished — several New York Sta

On February 14, 2019, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo signed into law the Child Victims Act , thus ending a decade’s old battle to change New York State’s rules regarding victims of childhood sexual abuse.

Editor’s Note: Obviously I am not naming the individual who told me the following. I also had to redact names and change a few minor details to protect her identity. Other than that, this is precisely what she told me in an interview about Rainbow. Readers here have the advantage of hearing from som

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About two months after they indicted Keith Raniere and Allison Mack – and about two months before they indicted Nancy Salzman, Lauren Salzman, Clare Bronfman, and Kathy Russell – the Feds undertook a civil forfeiture action against two NXIVM-related properties in Halfmoon, NY.