AGNIFILO: I dont think she did. She was applying the principles that were taught to her in NXIVM. not really, your Vandaddy isnt going to see the outside of a prison cell unless hes on the way to or returning from a courtroom. I set up an account on PACER and gave them my credit card info (yikes). ); We want to hear it. The feds will try him again, but he may not have the benefit of the Seagrams millions to help with his defense. Garaufis terminated the cross-examination of the most important witness and denied the defendant his right to cross-examine witnesses against him. There would be a cage for the people who were most committed to growth, Salzman testified. The man Salzman had previously described as her most important person her mentor, spiritual advisor, and lover; the man whose initials she had chosen to brand into the flesh above her abdomen; the man who had taught her the values of love, sacrifice, personal responsibility and courage had, when confronted with arrest, run away and hidden in a walk-in closet. Everything we had done, everything I was teaching NXIVMwas all centered around the fact that we can live this principled life, she said. And also I mean, I knew it because when I joined DOS there was something that had been created over a period of time that seemed pretty extensive. 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. Who cares whether she had convinced herself at the time that it was not illegal or illegal but allowed or whatever. Press J to jump to the feed. The whole time, I kept thinking, They could shoot in this door,' she said. Id. We've received your submission. A Because I think Keith had a whole bunch of people [DOS first line women] to meet his objectives and serving him in a way that Pam facilitated before. Agnifilo now switched to Dani who at this point had not yet testified but had been brought up by Lauren in her direct testimony. Lauren Salzman, who detailed the group's inner workings during four days of testimony at Keith Raniere's trial, was sentenced to probation. Unfortunately for Raniere, however, the ceremony never happened, as authorities arrived at Ranieres home on March 25 to arrest him on sex trafficking and racketeering charges. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. It is the final installment of our report on her cross-examination. Q Right. I'm sure you sound this way too. Salzman, who was in NXIVM's Executive Success Programs (ESP) for nearly two decades, testified that she had been with Raniere in a $10,000-a-week resort when authorities in Mexico arrested the. Lauren also admitted to threatening the woman with deportation if she continued to disobey Keith's orders. I didnt understand the question. Q You learned about these meetings for the first time when the Government gave you these recordings to listen to? I suspect flipping Allison Mack was crucial to making the trial a waste of everyones time. Lauren is a rat. . Get started with the examples above. AGNIFILO: I am not trying to argue with you. The links no longer appear to work. Allowed herself to be both vulnerable and strong. Thats what I did when I was in DOS. Q You didnt know the specifics of the conversations because you werent there; right? When Salzman confronted Raniere about it, he denied sleeping with the women. I knowingly and intentionally harbored Jane Doe 4, a woman whose identity is known to me, in a room in the home in the Northern District of New York, Salzman testified earlier in the spring, according to unsealed court transcripts quotedby the New York Post. And I think DOS took the place of that, in large part, because now you have slaves going out specifically looking for sexual relationships and personal relationships for Keith. Lauren Salzman, a "first-line master" within DOS, testified that there were five stages of recruitment. The 100 Best Albums of 2022. But Im telling you, I was watching this witness. Raniere wanted this testimony forever suppressed and sealed so that no one would ever know what he and Salzman had admitted or lied about under oath. Q Now, you just said when you found out that you did things that were criminal, did you intend to do things that were criminal as you did them? A She would draft the e-mail and suggest that the family use it and then Hector would use Kristins drafted e-mail, yes. The statement, which was read at trial, accused the media of shaming the women for engaging in consensual activities and spearheading a campaign against the rights of women and alternative lifestyles. At one point in the email, Raniere compared DOS members to authors of the Declaration of Independence. Raniere was furious, saying he questioned whether he wanted to have a child with someone who could be so disrespectful to him. An appeal on Lauren Salzman testimony not being finished will not overturn all those counts of guilty. Judge, can we have a sidebar? Knowledge of the group became widespread in late 2017, after the New York Times published its DOS expose featuring an interview and photographs of Edmonson displaying her brand. I committed to stay with nothing. Lauren Salzman reported to Raniere regarding Daniela's "progress," but And her testimony was transcribed verbatim. I remember concern that she was voicing upset she had, so I dont think it was completely out of the blue. So this is how I understand it-. Raniere had fled to Mexico the year before, following a damning New York Times report that he was the grandmaster of DOS, a NXIVM offshoot and secret all-female sorority of masters and slaves. Allegedly run by Raniere, the group reportedly had branded women, forced them to provide collateral in the form of explicit naked photos, and coerced them into having sex with him. This is Part 6 of Lauren Salzman: Cross-Examination Stopped by Judge. Lauren Salzman got time-served in July in light of her cooperation. Two cages had already been ordered for the dungeon, according to the New York Post. And Judge Nicholas Garaufis interfered with the cross-examination. You may stand down. Q Let me just ask you the question. 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. There were a lot of things created and they had all been created and implemented in my absence, so I knew that I had come into something, that there had been things before. at 1619-20 (testimony of Lauren Salzman that Raniere preferred DOS recruits to be individuals "in positions of power and influence"). THE COURT: Look, I am not saying you are not a man you are not a lawyer who maintains his composure. She said thats not what made it hard. A The conversations sound different to me now than they did before and so I dont hear them the same way and thats difficult. I knew that before. Sorry if this was asked already. The judge tried to get Agnifilo off this point and he just kept coming back. Salzman said she was once a slave master in the cult, according to the New York Post. And that goes for everybody in this room, and it includes you and the Government. No relationship, no baby. ; see, e.g., Trial Transcript ("Tr.") at 619-24 (testimony of Mark Vicente regarding Nxivm recruitment strategies); id. The line of questioning was not relevant for reasons Scott Johnson stated. Watching Raniere skulk out of a walk-in closet as guns were pointed at her head, however, put all of his teachings, all of his promises, and all of their shared dreams together into perspective. Frank made an excellent decision in the way he chose to realease Laurens testimony. It was the most painful thing I have ever experienced, she said. Q And you didnt want to have to go through this criminal trial with him; is that fair to say? The seduction assignment, he said, was intended to give women an experience with the man where the man couldve abused his power, but didnt.. And then I found out, during that time, he started like twelve new [sexual] relationships with people who were not compensating for those holes that were left in the organization [by Pam and Barbara Jeske] many of them didnt even share any of our values. I was trying to prove my self-worth, and salvage this string of a hope of what I thought my relationship might someday be, and I put it above everything else; I put it above my friends and I put it above other people, helping them in their best interest. ( Lauren Salzman is accused of "coaching" and controlling Daniela during her imprisonment.) Next question. To think I was right at your side and sacrificed for you. Former Nxivm slave master Lauren Salzman who admitted to keeping a woman captive for nearly two years during her stint as a high-ranking member in the upstate sex cult dodged jail time at her sentencing on Wednesday. I showed reprehensible judgment, Salzman said. I figured this would be useful for others as well. A My intention was to prove to Keith that I was not so far below the ethical standard that he holds that I was I dont even know how far below I am. Are the transcripts of the trial released anywhere? I dont know that. The jury was dismissed. Keith Raniere is today a convicted felon serving a 120-year sentence. Crime News is your destination for true crime stories from around the world, breaking crime news, and information about Oxygen's original true crime shows and documentaries. Having said that, I didnt think Agnifilo went overboard, there were a lot of questions where Salzman wasnt answering the question being asked. His work has been cited in hundreds of news outlets, like The New York Times, The Daily Mail, VICE News, CBS News, Fox News, New York Post, New York Daily News, Oxygen, Rolling Stone, People Magazine, The Sun, The Times of London, CBS Inside Edition, among many others in all five continents. It did not seem like the line of questioning was interrupted at all. Agnifilo even said at one point she didnt have to answer a question when the objection was sustained, he was actually being helpful to the DOJ and lessening the stress on Salzman. I lied to the entire community about it, she testified. 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.. I was beginning to realize that I was looking forward to the end of January like my sons awaiting a Star Wars movie, and that I might be in for disappointment, is there another place to access these? Among the. When a Judge cuts you off from examining a witness, you have one, and only one job: create a record. published its DOS expose featuring an interview and photographs of Edmonson displaying her brand. A I felt insecure about it, but that wasnt what was troubling to me. Q But youve read the chats between Keith and Cami? Everything they were talking about is stuff that we talked about in DOS and that I knew already when I listened to that, except the fact that there were the seven of them and they planned to stay, the seven of them. Lauren Salzman, 42, testified that the same young woman, identified as Daniela, was confined to a bedroom for two years - all because she gained weight and asked to see a man other than Raniere.