“He is not sorry for his conduct or his choices,” Keith Raniere’s lawyers wrote in a court filing last month
the leader of the now infamous NXIVM, will be sentenced on Tuesday after being convicted last year on charges of multiple acts of sex trafficking, multiple acts of racketeering, forced labor conspiracy, and wire fraud conspiracy. He faces a possible life sentence, and his sentencing, as theon Monday, is set to include hours of his victims’ statements.
“He is not sorry for his conduct or his choices,” Raniere’s lawyers wrote in a court filing last month, as thepointed out. He “intends to fight this case with all of his might, confident that he will one day be vindicated,” they added. While NXIVM initially presented itself as a self-help group, it’s now commonly known as a sex cult, as prosecutors described it when Raniere was charged. He has not been deterred. As thereported, citing court filings, Raniere has been campaigning for his conviction to be overturned, including an effort to make a podcast about his case and hold a $25,000 cash prize contest to find mistakes in his prosecution.
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