Learning that Cami and Keith had a special relationship is not what was troubling to me. Lauren Salzman was sentenced in Brooklyn federal court to time served and ordered her to perform 300 hours of community service Credit: AP 4 She was a former member of NXIVM leader Keith Raniere's inner circle Prosecutors noted her "credible, detailed" testimony against her ex Raniere at his 2019 trial as reason for leniency. The testimony of Lauren Salzman, 42, marked the first time that one of Raniere's co-defendants and a member of his clannish "inner circle" has taken the stand at his criminal trial. pmc_jwplayer('jwplayer_c132tQIF_yTTJs9q5_div','yTTJs9q5').setup( HBO's The Vow, inevitably, features her story. I am happy as a bug in a rug reading all of this! AGNIFILO: Your Honor, most respectfully and I am not going to belabor the point I think it is an important she talked about the change in perspective, she did, and Im trying to explore that change. 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A I didnt know specifically it was a racketeering violation, but I knew things were illegal that I was doing and I did them anyway. Reading the direct transcripts is blowing my mind. Lauren also admitted to threatening the woman with deportation if she continued to disobey Keith's orders. Following Ranieres arrest in Mexico, Salzman said, she started to come to terms with the true extent of Ranieres thrall over her; at times, she appeared to be processing it even while she was on the stand. Lauren stepped down. Agnifilo states, he was done. Q Youve been through a lot for Keith; right? Salzman is the third of Ranieres five co-defendants to be sentenced in the case. THE COURT: We have been through this. Nonetheless, she continued to follow Ranieres orders to not allow Dani to have access to her papers, on the grounds that she wanted him to think she was willing to do what it took to be a responsible parent.. She has been on the stand for hours. I am not talking about that. Lauren Salzman's attorneys argued for no jail time given her cooperation and testimony during Keith Raniere's trial in 2019. Lauren Salzman, 42, is a cooperating witness in the sex trafficking and racketeering trial of NXIVM's founder, Keith Raniere, who has pleaded not guilty on all counts. I didnt know what it was. Terrified, she called out Ranieres name, only for him to emerge from a walk-in closet next to the bedroom. Its all there, its on the record. Selected Courts Sorry if this was asked already. Q And these are meetings between Keith, Monica Duran, Dani Padilla, and Loreta Garza, right? Lauren Salzman got time-served in July in light of her cooperation. Lauren Salzman, whose mother co-founded Nxivm. At that time, sheadmitted keeping a slave locked in a room for more than two years. [What you need to know to start the day: Get New York Today in your inbox.] She was supposed to be sentenced in 2019, and could face up to twenty years behind bars for her part in NXIVM. DOS members were also required to do penance for perceived misdeeds. Lauren Salzman reported to Raniere regarding Daniela's "progress," but I haven't purchased any additional transcripts from PACER. Hey, did you ever find the entirety of pacer testimony? We were supposed to be uniform: All looking the same, and fully frontally naked, Salzman testified. And he exited the courtroom. On Friday, Lauren Salzman, 42, took the stand in the trial against Keith Alan Raniere. I know some of Keefe and Durans criminal activity came up during the trial already, but it would be nice to have it summarized. I showed reprehensible judgment, Salzman said. But it was too late- the defense had rested. I thought that really went pretty far beyond the pale, frankly. That happened at least once that I know of. Her mother Nancy Salzman, 66, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 8. NEW YORK (AP) After weeks of relentlessly lurid testimony, federal prosecutors in Brooklyn on Friday wrapped up their sex trafficking case against Keith Raniere, . Parlato has been prominently featured on HBOs docuseries The Vow and was the lead investigator and coordinating producer for Investigation Discoverys The Lost Women of NXIVM. In addition, he was credited in the Starz docuseries 'Seduced' for saving 'slave' women from being branded and escaping the sex-slave cult known as DOS. If the have intermittent days Im sure they have all of them somewhere. It was illegal extortion, as she realizes now and as she recounted in her guilty plea. Q Was your intention to hurt people or was it to help people? [she is alternately tearing up and holding back tears.]. It is the defense councils job to cross-examine her about this unpleasant experience. I stayed with Keith despite all the other [sexual] relationships, and that was something that he could have been honest with me about, and mischaracterizing and making me feel sorry for him because his life is so hard because we lost our friends and I cant get my shit together is not what was going on. I think Lauren did an excellent job of clearly articulating things as they were and not getting tripped up by Agnifilo. A Yes, and I think there were some with Allison [Mack] and Rosa Laura [Junco] too. The links no longer appear to work. Master, please brand me, it would be an honor, an honor I want to wear for the rest of my life, she testified, according to the New York Times, detailing how Ranieres initials were branded onto her hip. He simply didnt have much to work with. Despite the negative media attention swarming around the group, the understanding among DOS members was that they would participate in a recommitment ceremony, pledging their allegiance to Raniere which, as Salzman later testified, was assumed to mean group sex. He basically verbally confessed to racketeering. Nonetheless, she continued to follow Ranieres orders to not allow Dani to have access to her papers, on the grounds that she wanted him to think she was willing to do what it took to be a responsible parent., planned to build a dungeon in the basement of the sorority house. When the police showed up, I was in one mode: protect Keith, Salzman testified on Tuesday at the Brooklyn federal courthouse where Raniere is currently standing trial. The judge were in stopping this and because of this the appeal will be successful and Keith will be free. A She would draft the e-mail and suggest that the family use it and then Hector would use Kristins drafted e-mail, yes. Judge, can we have a sidebar? at 1619-20 (testimony of Lauren Salzman that Raniere preferred DOS recruits to be individuals "in positions of power and influence"). Court Reporter/Transcriber TypeWrite Word Processing Service, Telephone number 518-581-8973. Q So here you are, listening to Keith talk to these women about DOS and the creation of DOS, youre not there, and youre listening to these recordings; correct? Padilla had also planned to purchase a cage, though she canceled the order shortly after the inner workings of DOS were made public in the spring of 2017. She and other members would do tasks at the orders of Raniere, and were punished severely if they didn't fulfill their duties, she testified. Q And with the exception of Rosa Laura, Keith slept with all of those women? The one who was not applying them was the man who made them up Keith Raniere. Q You learned about these meetings for the first time when the Government gave you these recordings to listen to? THE COURT: Look, I am not saying you are not a man you are not a lawyer who maintains his composure. The 45-year-old daughter of Nxivm co-founder Nancy Salzman had faced between seven and nine years in prison on racketeering conspiracy charges. Lauren woke up! Along with Raniere, Bronfman, Mack, and Salzman's daughter Lauren, the co-founder was arrested for an array of crimes in 2018. So I need the cross for Lauren Salzman. Like Allison Mack, she pled guilty to racketeering & racketeering conspiracy. She also told the judge that she kept the woman captive from March 2010 to April 2012 while [threatening] to deport Jane Doe 4 back to Mexico if she did not complete labor requested by myself and others.. Raniere, 58, is accused of founding and running NXIVM, which framed itself as a self-help group but which prosecutors say was really a cult-like organization that coerced female members into sexual fealty to Raniere. And not in my courtroom. A I just listened to these recordings the day before yesterday for the first time. The line of questioning was not relevant for reasons Scott Johnson stated. President (To Win Colorado) (D) Joe Biden* (R) Donald Trump. During her four days on the stand, Salzman detailed how she helped Raniere run a master-slave group within Nxivm called DOS, where women were branded with his initials and forced to sleep with him. CA. Im asking about what you know, what you know based on what you saw and what you saw other people doing with your own senses, eyewitness-type stuff; you didnt see any of that? Fixed: Release in which this issue/RFE has been fixed.The release containing this fix may be available for download as an Early Access Release or a General Availability Release. To get a PACER account requires you to put up a credit card. She testified that a fellow DOS member, Daniella Padilla, told her Raniere had once been violent towards her after accusing her of being in a prideful state. This is not the allegations. God, do l ever loathe Keith. Two cages had already been ordered for the dungeon, according to the New York Post. The relationships I learned about when I joined but it wasnt confusing to me that there had been time spent developing those things.