Looks like nothing very important was filed in federal court after August 21.

In the last few days, I received a number of emails and calls from several strangers ostensibly seeking to learn about NXIVM and wanting to know when I would be back in Western New York. They might be honest actors who want genuine information about NXIVM and are just curious about my whereabouts.

By K. R. Claviger

The Rosales Law Firm, LLC is investigating the possibility of filing a legal proceeding to obtain refunds for anyone who paid for an Executive Success Program (ESP) or NXIVM Intensive in the United States in the last 4 years.

Just two days before Vanguard’s brithday, Emiliano Salinas wrote this touching essay – replete with not so thinly veiled illusions to the man who did the thinking for him – his master, his true father, Keith Alan Raniere .

Following Frank Report’s expose on him in February, NXIVM member, Farouk Rojas left the USA and went to Canada. He is one of the longest serving members of NXIVM. He had to flee the US because of his Visa problems. He stayed for several months in Toronto and Montreal then went back to Monterrey for

The terms of Clare Bronfman’s home detention are in writing on PACER [www.pacer.gov] – the Federal Government website that records all federal court filings. The public can access on PACER documents for a fee.

By Joe O’Hara

Is there another Vanguard University?

I came to Los Angeles, in January 2008, to investigate the Precision Development project that Clare and Sara Bronfman had invested $26 million into – but had nothing in their name to show for it.

Clare Bronfman’s lawyer, Susan Necheles , said after court yesterday that she disagrees with the judge’s decision to keep her client confined to home detention. She thinks the judge punished Clare more harshly because of her wealth.

Editor’s note: A reader of Frank Report – evidently with insider knowledge – posted a comment which really deserves to be a separate post. The reader’s comments are in bold.

The judge has ruled. Clare Bronfman has lost.

The prosecution has filed a written response to Clare Bronfman’s request for the relaxing of home detention and the right to meet with NXIVM members.

Below are Los Angeles County properties that an online search indicates are owned by Precision Development LLC – which in turn is owned by Clare Bronfman and her sister, Sara Bronfman-Igtet , according to state records.

In Susan Necheles letter to Judge Nicholas Garaufis , seeking to end Clare Bronfman’s home detention and allow her to communicate with hundreds of NXIVM members, Necheles reveals an explosive fact: One of Clare Bronfman’s bookkeepers may testify against her

Susan Necheles , Clare Bronfman’s lead attorney, wrote to Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis yesterday, seeking to end Bronfman’s home detention.

On the eve of Clare Bronfman’s bail hearing, her lawyers have told the court they firmed up her financial collateral.

Kathy Russell’s attorney, Justine Harris , of the NYC law firm of Sher Tremonte, has written to DOJ prosecutors Moira Kim Penza , Tanya Hajjar and Karin K. Orenstein , to inform them that her senior law partner, Michael Tremonte , once clerked for Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis in 2000-2001 and “has a c

As requested, Judge Nicholas Garaufis has agreed that Nancy Salzman may talk to her daughter Michelle Myers and son-in-law Benjamin Myers .

It’s official. Judge Nicholas Garaufis has approved the requested home detention modifications for Allison Mack .

Yesterday I instituted Scotty’s Corner – a place for angry and hateful comments that have nothing to do with the post at hand – but are by or against Scott Johnson.

According to Wikipedia , chutzpah is the quality of audacity, for good or for bad. The Yiddish word derives from the Hebrew word ḥutspâ, meaning “insolence”, “cheek” or “audacity”.

It’s the end of an era.

By Frank Parlato