Former NXIVM leader Keith Raniere has faced another setback in his attempts for a new trial. A judge has rejected Raniere’s motion for post-conviction discovery. That is evidence that existed at the time of the trial, but was only discovered…[Continue Reading...]
ALBANY — Rabbis from ultra-Orthodox private schools said they are planning to sue the state Education Department over regulations about what they teach, they decided at a meeting Sunday. They also directed their schools to stop accepting public funding for…[Continue Reading...]
Former NXIVM sex cult leader Nancy Salzman has been transferred to a halfway house, the Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed. Salzman was placed at the Horizon Center in Albany on Sept. 7. She was released from federal prison after serving…[Continue Reading...]
ALBANY — Former NXIVM president Nancy Salzman is out of federal prison less than 20 months into her 3½ year sentence for admitted crimes as Keith Raniere’s top deputy in the cult-like personal growth organization. The 69-year-old Salzman, formerly of…[Continue Reading...]
Saul Newton wanted to be a good father, so he granted his grown daughter Esther’s wish: When her female friends came to his office for therapy, he promised he would no longer ask those women for oral sex. He wasn’t…[Continue Reading...]
“The most tragic thing that happened to me in the group was that not too long after I got into it, my mother died, and they wouldn’t let me go see her,” says Janie P. Janie wasn’t kidnapped, jailed or…[Continue Reading...]
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse will pay $100 million to survivors of child sexual abuse at the hands of the church’s clergy, religious leaders, lay employees and volunteers. The diocese — which filed for bankruptcy in June 2020 after…[Continue Reading...]
ALBANY — Anti-NXIVM blogger Frank Parlato Jr. will not be headed to federal prison. Instead, the 68-year-old Niagara Falls man, a one-time publicist for Keith Raniere’s cult-like organization who became one of its most outspoken opponents, will spend five months…[Continue Reading...]
After the show Girls introduced the world to Adam Driver, he rose to international fame thanks to portraying Kylo Ren in the Star Wars movies. Since then, the powers that be in Hollywood have embraced Driver so wholeheartedly that it…[Continue Reading...]
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Another $50.75 million was added to the total settlement reached by survivors in the Diocese of Rochester’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case Friday. According to the law firm Jeff Anderson & Associates, the total settlement is now…[Continue Reading...]
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