The seven-count superseding indictment unsealed in July charged the six defendants with crimes that include identity theft, harboring of aliens for financial gain, forced labor, sex trafficking and wire fraud.
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Federal prosecutors estimate the computer devices contain up to 12 terabytes of data, and have noted that a U.S. Circuit Court in Manhattan has characterized one terabyte of data as being the equivalent of "12 library floors' worth of books."
The evaluation of the data has been slowed, in part, because some of the computer devices contain a multitude of records that involve approx 75 ATTORNEYS who have done work for Raniere, Salzman & Clare Bronfman, a liquor-fortune heiress & NXIVM's longtime operations director.
FBI agents scoured Salzman's Oregon Trail residence in Halfmoon and seized computers, data-storage devices, cameras and mobile phones, and small sums of Mexican and Russian currency.
Why would NXIVM need Russian currency? Mexico makes sense. But Russian?
Why would NXIVM need Russian currency? Mexico makes sense. But Russian?
A 2nd search took place at a nearby townhouse that prosecutors have alleged was used for years as a private sex lair by Keith Raniere.
Items seized there included audio-video recording equipment, a box of unidentified white pills, VHS tapes, & a book titled "History of Torture."
Items seized there included audio-video recording equipment, a box of unidentified white pills, VHS tapes, & a book titled "History of Torture."
