NXIVM: Pyramid Scheme Turned Cult

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Today we dive into NXIVM, it is a self-proclaimed American multi-level marketing company based in Clifton Park, New York, a suburb of Albany, which has offered personal and professional development seminars through its "Executive Success Programs" of large-group awareness training. The company has been widely described as a cult, and was shown in court to have been a recruiting platform for a secret society called "DOS" in which women were branded and forced into sexual slavery.

Links:

- 20/20 Apr 27 Part 1: Woman recalls being branded as part of joining secret society - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3gBeRnX6RlI&t=10s

- Allison Mack Pleads Guilty to Racketeering in NXIVM Case | E! News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujDxNNYyh6A&t=11s

- Woman Charged In Alleged Sex Cult Case Pleads Guilty https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmjAjZSsA3E

- Alleged U.S. sex cult leader arrested in Mexico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8UFZv21xLk

- NXIVM Founder Keith Raniere Speaks Out From Prison Ahead Of Sentencing | NBC Nightly News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmEOPOwZ_Ys

- NXIVM leader sentenced to 120 years in prison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCXlS4a9a8o

- Inside alleged sex cult NXIVM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu2Z7aou9yk

- Allison Mack of ‘Smallville’ Pleads Guilty in Case of Nxivm ‘Sex Cult’ Where Women Were Branded https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/08/nyregion/nxivm-allison-mack.html

- NXIVM Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NXIVM

- NXIVM Leader Keith Raniere Has Been Convicted for Keeping Women as ‘Sex Slaves.’ Here Are the Major Players in the Case https://time.com/5568135/nxivm-allison-mack-raniere/

- A Running List of the Women Allison Mack Attempted to Recruit to Nxivm

https://www.vanityfair.com/style/2018/04/a-running-list-of-the-women-allison-mack-attempted-to-recruit-to-nxivm

- Nxivm leader was writing twisted handbook on sex slavery: testimony https://culteducation.com/group/907-nxivm/34842-nxivm-leader-was-writing-twisted-handbook-on-sex-slavery-testimony.html

- Your Guide To All The Subgroups Within NXIVM https://www.bustle.com/entertainment/nxivm-subgroups-jness-dos-society-of-protectors

- The Most Disturbing Details From The NXIVM Sex Cult Case https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2018/05/199311/nxivm-sex-cult-disturbing-details

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