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Robert Gavin
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Robert Gavin covers state and federal courts, criminal justice issues and legal affairs for the Times Union.
Oct 28, 2020 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
In his victim impact statement yesterday, former #NXIVM member Mark Vicente told #KeithRaniere:

“Finding out the truth about you and your actual motives turned my world upside down. You broke goodness.”

(Vicente and wife Bonnie Piesse after Raniere verdict on June 19, 2019). Vicente told Raniere, his one-time mentor: “You cracked the firmament of my belief in nobility and honor and righteousness. I do know how to repair it. I do not know if it can ever be made whole again. I fight everyday to try and recapture something that now feels lost.”
Oct 28, 2020 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
One of the victim impact statements at sentencing of #KeithRaniere was from a Mexican woman whom he ordered confined to a room for nearly two years because she dared to kiss another man.

She told Raniere on Tuesday: “This is the last time you will hold my attention.”

#NXVIM She said: “I will never know what my life would have been like without all the pain and horror.”
Oct 28, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The first victim speaking Tuesday was 15 when Raniere first had sex w/her.

"As for the man I am here to speak about," she said, "I will not say his name. I will only call him 'he.' He doesn't deserve anything more than that. I don't want to allow his name back into my life." She continued: "I understand there are charges in this case that concern me, and that my name has been mentioned repeatedly throughout the trial. But I was not here, and my voice was not heard."

#NXIVM