Every person charged alongside Keith Raniere took a deal. Every single one. When they learned what was on his hard drive, the plea agreements came fast. He was the only one who maintained nothing was wrong.

NXIVM operated for two decades out of suburban Albany, New York, disguised as a self-improvement company called Executive Success Programs. Members paid thousands for courses, wore colored sashes to mark their rank, and advanced by recruiting others. The Seagram’s heiresses Clare and Sara Bronfman became its biggest financial backers, reportedly funneling over $100 million into the organization. Actress Allison Mack became a central recruiter. At its height, NXIVM had around 700 members.

Federal prosecutors proved all of it — the courses, the hierarchy, the celebrity endorsements — was the exterior of a machine built to funnel money, labor, and people to one man. Raniere created a secret inner circle where women were branded, coerced through collateral, and controlled. The superseding indictment charged him with seven counts: racketeering, wire fraud conspiracy, forced labor conspiracy, trafficking, and more.

June 2019: guilty on all seven. October 2020: sentenced to 120 years. Projected release date: 2120. NXIVM dissolved. The campus sold for $700,000. And the man who designed every piece of it never admitted a thing.

Part one of a four-part Hidden Killers investigation into Keith Raniere and NXIVM.

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