According to the news of the Chinese Anti-Cult Network on April 9, on the morning of April 8, local time, 36-year-old actress Allison Mack appeared in the U.S. District Court in Brooklyn, New York. She pleaded guilty in court, admitting to manipulating women into sex slavery for the Sex Cult NXIVM and tearfully apologizing to them in court.
Alison McC.
Alison Mack said: "I thought Lanier was here to help, I was wrong. "I have to take full responsibility." She pleaded guilty to extortion. Speaking of the past year, she said it was "a year of introspection."
She admitted that she was involved in a criminal act that led her to agree to support a criminal enterprise (NXIVM) between 2016 and April 2018. She understands the criminal targets of businesses.
Mike appeared in court.
This approach is sensible for her, and she will avoid all sex-related charges that could have put her in jail for more than 15 years and recorded as a sex offender when she is released.
Given that she has no criminal record, Alison Mack could have been sentenced over a 3-5 year period. Following her confession, her sentence will be announced on Sept. 11. The confession would save her from future trials with Lanier and others.
Alison McC and Lanier.
Alison Mack was arrested on April 20, 2018, under investigation by the FBI on charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking complicity, and forced labor conspiracy. Alison McKe joined the cult Nexem for many years, first becoming a "sex slave" to the leader Raniel, and then developing into lovers and accomplices.
After his arrest, he was released on bail of $50 million. She was accused of being linked to Keith Raniere, the leader of the cult NXIVM, who was accused of using women as sex and labor slaves.
Born in Germany in 1982, Alison McKe plays Chloe Sullivan in the American drama "Smallville", and her superpower is healing, and she is the most attractive and righteous woman. She also starred in "Honey, I've Scaled Us Down", which won an Emmy Award.
The case began with media exposure, and Nxivm branded the female believer's lower abdomen
In recent years, major media in the United States have begun to expose lanier and Nxivm's various atrocities, and local and federal law enforcement agencies in New York have also begun to intervene in the investigation.
In October 2017, a group of victims came forward in The New York Times to accuse NXIVM's leader, Ranier.
Victims complained to the FBI that when members joined the secret group, Lanier would burn Lanier's name near their pelvis with a hot pen, and that the whole process would be filmed by other members as a ritual of joining the group.
According to ABC News, their bodies were engraved with symbols, including Lanier's initials "RK." The location of the imprint is in the female lower abdomen.
The female believer was branded with the initial "RK" of Lanier's name.
Canadian actress Sarah Edmondson, a former member of the group, revealed to ABC that she had been with the group for a decade and had been branded at the time of joining. She was stripped of her clothes, pressed down by three men, and asked her to say "It is my pleasure to be branded by the master". A female physician then branded the symbol under the woman's hip bone for about half an hour. "There's no anesthesia in the process, the pain is worse than having a baby, it's like a horror movie, and this way of treating anyone is the most inhumane and terrifying."
Sarah Edmondson shows off the imprint on her body.
Lanier was arrested on March 25, 2018, in a luxury villa near Puerto Vallarta, a Mexican coastal resort city, while sharing a room with several women.
Western media call Nxivm a cult
Over the years, the American media "Times Union" has continued to expose Nxivm, calling it a cult.
On October 13, 2003, the Website of Forbes magazine published "The Bronfmans And the Cult" that Bronfman, who had been one of the customers of the "Senior Manager Success Project", called the training program a "cult".
Vanity Fair magazine reports.
In 2010, Vanity Fair reported that Nxivm was a cult.
In 2012, investigative journalist James M. Odato published an article in the Abbony Union Times arguing that NXIVM was a cult.
On November 18, 2014, the U.S. website thenation.com published an article titled "How a Fancy, Secret, Cult-Like Company Waged a Lawsuit Against Journalists," exposing NXIVM's indiscriminate prosecution of critics.
Lanier's packaged "master of human psychodynamics", "prophet"
Keith Lanier, 59.
In the 1990s, Lanier packaged himself as a "master of human psychodynamics", a "super genius" who had achieved success in many fields. He advocated that he could talk fluently at the age of 1, read and hyphenate at the age of 2, and completed his high school math course within 19 hours. He also mentioned many times that he had obtained 3 degrees at Rensselaer Institute of Technology in the United States. In 1998, Lanier co-founded Nxivm with a former psychiatric nurse who called herself an "expert on human potential" to recruit members under the banner of "leading a new era of human evolution."
In fact, Lanier was born in Brooklyn in 1960, his parents divorced when he was 8 years old, and he grew up with his mother in the suburbs. His transcripts show that he nearly failed several advanced math and science courses at Rensselaer Polytechnic.
The American "Rolling Stone" magazine said that Lanier had run a business in his early years, and was later investigated for suspected "pyramid schemes". Forbes reported that as early as 1993, Keith Lanier had founded a pyramid-shaped pyramid scheme called Consumers Buyline, which was investigated by 23 states in the United States, and finally he reached a settlement agreement with New York State and compensated the matter.
NXIVM, once translated as "Nexheim", was originally a pyramid scheme company
Headquartered in Albany County, the capital of New York State, the organization has 16,000 members with offices throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico.
The organization claims to have been founded to advocate for women's rights and promote better self-actualization by removing psychological and emotional barriers. They provide so-called personal and professional development training to customers through the Executive Success Programs (ESP), whose trainees honor Lanier and his partner Nancy Salzman as "Vanguard" and "Perfect."
In July 2017, the Nxivm Success Course was held in Albany (Source: The New York Times).
According to People magazine and the BBC, since the late 1990s, about 16,000 people have paid a high fee of $3,400 each to attend seminars organized by Nxivm. Most of the participants attended seminars, such as the organization's Executive Success Program, and then went on with their lives. But others, further attracted to Nxivm, gave up their careers, friends and family to become followers of its leader, Keith Ranier, including some wealthy heiresses, Hollywood stars and even the son of Mexico's former president.
Authorities also said Lanier had previously been funded by Clare Bronfman and Sarah Bronfman. Bronfman, the heir to the wealth of Seagram, one of the world's largest liquor companies, is also a "victim" of Nxivm. Lanier brainwashed them, devouring their fortunes of up to $150 million and using their network to expand Nxivm's popularity. Clare Bronfman, the fifth defendant in the case, has already been indicted.
The Bronfman sisters at the Nxivm event.
According to the New York Times, Nxivm has a secret group, Dominus Obsequious Sororium, which means "submissive female partner master." The members are all women and must serve their masters like slaves, including having sex. Other believers accuse That Lanier has established a secret society of more than 50 women in the NXIVM, all of whom are Lanier's slaves, but members must also recruit their own slaves.
Nxivm signage.
Lanier also uses "private documents" handed over by female believers to ask them to sleep with them, and it is rumored that he will select 15 to 20 female believers at a time and work regular shifts, and he also asks these female believers not to have sex with others. There are many "teachers" in the organization who assign "assignments" to believers. One female believer said that they did not know that Lanier was the "master", they just obeyed the instructions of the "teacher".
Investigators say Lanier likes unusually thin women, so female members of the organization are forced to eat foods that are extremely low in calories so that they can become bone-like and become the type of women he likes.
Immigration officials arrested Lanier in Mexico.
The FBI said Lanier used female believers as sex slaves. Lanier has between 15-20 sexual partners who cannot discuss their relationship with Lanier and cannot have sex with people other than Lanier.
Prosecutors also said that in addition to branding the female believers, Lanier also asked the female believers to hand over private information such as erotic photos to prevent them from leaving the organization, and prosecutors asked the judge to refuse bail lannier.
Nxivm's organizational structure resembles a "pyramid", amassing huge sums of money
The FBI found that Nxivm's organizational structure resembled a "pyramid," with Lanier promoting officials as "masters," who continued to develop downlines and recruit new "slaves." According to the media, Nxivm has many brainwashing methods, such as requiring members to "clock in" to greet the owner in the morning and evening during the training period.
If the female believers did not obey, he would force them to wear cow breast models to class, and others would humiliate them with words and even threaten to put them in cages.
The imprint on the female believer.
Some members spent thousands of dollars to join the "self-help workshop". It requires members to provide information about family and friends, nude photographs of themselves and transfer the right to dispose of personal assets when they join in order to act as a threat if they request withdrawal.
Court documents show that Lanier had access to the bank account of one of his deceased lovers, with $8 million in deposits.