Convicted NXIVM king Keith Raniere faces life of hard time
NEWLY convicted sex fiend Keith Raniere is facing spending the rest of his life in a cage for running a twisted cult that tortured, enslaved and branded gals for kinky cravings — while posing as a self-improvement guru.
A federal jury convicted NXIVM cult king Raniere, 58, for sex trafficking and child pornography — and a slew of other crimes — after a sensational trial in Brooklyn, N.Y.
His lawyers’ argument conceded the creep’s self-improvement seemed “unconventional” but insisted all the sex was consensual.
However, U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue described Raniere as a sinister puppetmaster who “ruined marriages, careers, fortunes, and lives.”
While Raniere “portrayed himself as a savant and a genius, he was, in fact, a master manipulator, a con man and the
Raniere marked members by searing their skin crime boss of a cult-like organization involving sex trafficking, child pornography, extortion, compelled abortion, branding, degradation and humiliation,” Donoghue says.
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