![]() In 2003, Dennis Yusko stopped by city hall in Halfmoon, New York, to see the town planning board agenda. “Officials here didn’t merely drop the ball they never even picked it up.”īut local reporters did. “Why Nxivm founder Keith Raniere is only now being tried … is a lingering mystery,” said an editorial in the Times Union in May. A reporter working at Metroland, an alt-weekly in Albany, uncovered Raniere’s tactics for persuasion, how he silenced critics and his obsession with a former girlfriend.īut nothing stopped Raniere or the group until that 2017 New York Times story. It included Raniere’s attempt to build a headquarters, countless lawsuits against detractors and defectors, his questionable business, his history of preying on minors and the group he built around himself. The Albany (New York) Times Union’s coverage of Raniere and his alleged cult, Nxivm (pronounced nex-ee-um, like the medicine) began in 2003. It took less than five hours for a jury this June to convict Keith Raniere of everything he’d been charged with – sex trafficking, forced labor, posession of child pornography, sexual exploitation of a child, obstruction of justice and more.īefore that, it took federal prosecutors a few months to file charges against Raniere, the leader of an alleged sex cult, after The New York Times reported that members of the group were getting physically branded, like cattle, with his initials.Īnd before all that - before the books, podcasts and documentaries on the cult and its leader - it took a local reporter who saw something strange on a town hall planning board agenda and started reporting.
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