S35 E6: Orange Is The New Mack | Allison after NXIVM

Allison after NXIVM from Uncover

CBC

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4.6 • 10K Ratings

🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

At the conclusion of the trial, Keith Raniere is handed a 120-year prison sentence, but Allison Mack will have to wait to learn her fate. On house arrest in California, she enrolls in school and begins trying to untangle wisdom from manipulation. When her classmates discover who she is—and what she’s done—Allison gets her first taste of how the world outside NXIVM is going to receive her. Allison is sentenced to three years incarceration, but after her time in DOS, she finds that the harsh world of federal prison comes with unexpected freedoms.

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0:39.8	Campside Media.
0:46.7	On an overcast June day in 2019,
0:50.7	in the same Brooklyn courtroom where Lawrence Salz testified during the Nexium Legal Saga,
0:57.0	Keith Reneary's trial comes to a close.
1:01.4	A jury in New York has found the leader of a self-help group guilty of seven counts of sex trafficking and racketeering.
1:10.3	His sentence? 120 years in prison. sex trafficking and racketeering.
1:10.9	His sentence, 120 years in prison, which he'll serve in Tucson, Arizona.
1:19.5	Judge Garifis gives Claire Bronfman the second highest sentence to Keith, because in part her
1:24.9	money funded Keith's twisted vision.
1:30.1	She receives nearly seven years in prison.
1:34.4	Nancy Salzman, prefect, gets three and a half years.
1:39.5	Her daughter, Lauren, gets time served for the period she spent on house arrest, plus five years probation and 300 hours of community service.
1:51.0	And Alison Mack, she makes a deal so late in the process that she must wait to hear what sentence she will receive. She flies back to California until then.
1:54.0	I've pled guilty. I was wrong. We were wrong. Okay, I need help.
2:00.0	Like, how do I... I don't, I'm drowning.
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