NXIVM prosecutor renews bid to see Seagram's heiress' documents

U.S. Attorney's office argues Clare Bronfman's emails should no longer be shielded from disclosure because NXIVM is defunct

Robert Gavin
Albany Times Union
December 5, 2019

NEW YORK – Federal prosecutors in Brooklyn say privileged documents in the email account of Seagram’s heiress Clare Bronfman should no longer be shrouded in secrecy because NXIVM’s own lawyers and a judge have declared the cult-like organization defunct.

On April 4, U.S. Magistrate Judge Vera Scanlon denied the prosecution’s request to have access to the documents, ruling that NXIVM was not defunct and could still assert attorney-client and work-product privileges to shield the documents from disclosure. Senior U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis upheld the decision.

But now that lawyers connected to NXIVM say the company is no longer in operation, the U.S. Attorney's office is arguing the prior protections should no longer apply.

NXIVM leader Keith Raniere, 59, known as "Vanguard," was convicted in June of all racketeering, sex trafficking and forced labor charges following a two-month federal trial in Brooklyn. His five co-defendants, including Bronfman, NXIVM’s director of operations, pleaded to various criminal charges before Raniere, formerly of Halfmoon, went to trial. Raniere faces a possible life sentence in January.

On Nov. 22, Assisant U.S. Attorney Tanya Hajjar asked Garaufis, who presided over the trial, to reconsider his affirmation of Scanlon’s ruling.

The prosecutor said in the months since Scanlon issued her April 4 decision, “attorneys for NXIVM have filed sworn declarations stating that NXIVM is no longer in operation and that they are unable to contact any representative of NXIVM,” according to her court filing.

Hajjar highlighted an Aug. 26 decision by U.S. District Judge Katharine Hayden, who ordered NXIVM to pay more than $1.3 million to Intefor, an investigative firm NXIVM hired in 2004 to dig up dirt on Rick Ross, head of the Cult Education Institute. NXIVM sued Ross the previous year.

In the decision, Hayden stated that “NXIVM is no longer in operation.”

In her motion to Garaufis, Hajjar included paperwork showing that a former NXIVM attorney, Robert Crockett, withdrew as a lawyer for NXIVM earlier this fall along with an associate, Chase Tajim. Neither said they had recent contact with any present NXIVM members.

“The Crockett Firm does not expect to receive any instructions or direction because, as noted by this Court, ‘NXIVM is no longer in operation,’” a sworn statement said.

Garaufis referred Hajjar's motion to Scanlon. On Nov. 26, Scanlon ruled that anyone opposing the government's effort to seek the documents in Bronfman's email may file so by Dec. 11.

In June, following Raniere’s conviction, Boston-based NXIVM attorney Michael Sullivan told the Times Union NXIVM remained "an entity, a legal entity.”

NXIVM president Nancy Salzman, who pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and awaits sentencing, has agreed to forfeit more than $515,000 seized during an FBI raid as well as of NXIVM-linked properties in the Knox Woods townhouse development in Halfmoon neighborhood where Raniere and almost two dozen NXIVM members lived.

https://www.timesunion.com/7dayarchive/article/NXIVM-prosecutor-renews-bid-to-see-Seagram-s-14881664.php

CultNEWS101 Articles: 12/5/2019

Neo-Nazi, Muslim Uighur, Bikram Yoga, Scientology, Legal

BBC News: Durham teen neo-Nazi became 'living dead'

"The youngest person to be convicted of planning a terrorist attack in the UK identified potential targets in his hometown, began drafting a "guerrilla warfare" manual and tried to obtain a chemical used in terrorist bombings. But the case also focused on the radicalisation process itself, hearing the 16-year-old's preparations for an attack involved a deliberate effort to dehumanise himself and become like the "living dead".

The teenager chronicled his regression in a journal, writing "at one point or another I can look back and see if I was any different." Aged 14, he noted: "I wasn't always a fascist, my red pilling process was slower than most", adding that less than two years earlier he advocated "punk rock ideals and Marxism".

The trial heard much about his ideology: an amalgam of neo-Nazism, Satanism and misanthropy, allied to the belief that a collapse of civilisation should be "accelerated" through acts of violence and criminality."

BBC: Data leak reveals how China 'brainwashes' Uighurs in prison camps

"Leaked documents detail for the first time China's systematic brainwashing of hundreds of thousands of Muslims in a network of high-security prison camps.

The Chinese government has consistently claimed the camps in the far western Xinjiang region offer voluntary education and training.

But official documents, seen by BBC Panorama, show how inmates are locked up, indoctrinated and punished.

China's UK ambassador dismissed the documents as fake news.

The leak was made to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) , which has worked with 17 media partners, including BBC Panorama and The Guardian newspaper in the UK.

The investigation has found new evidence which undermines Beijing's claim that the detention camps, which have been built across Xinjiang in the past three years, are for voluntary re-education purposes to counter extremism.

About a million people - mostly from the Muslim Uighur community - are thought to have been detained without trial."

Cinema Blend: What Bikram Choudhury Thinks About Netflix's Scathing New Yoga Documentary

" ... Bikram Choudhury reportedly made time to watch Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator. Publicist Richard Hillgrove, who was retained to represent Bikram, told the L.A. Times that his client had indeed watched the Netflix film. Here's how Hillgrove shared Bikram's feelings on it:

Bikram Choudhury totally refutes all the allegations of sexual misconduct and harassment presented in the film and is deeply upset by the continued character assassination. Bikram believes that the concerted effort by money-motivated lawyers to proactively send letters to a database of all his clients, offering people free legal representation and the promise of $1 million insurance policy pay-outs is the primary motivation for this reputational catastrophe. Bikram believes the Netflix film is nothing more than a repetition of old material."

Radar Online: Scientology Claims Leader David Miscavige Not Properly Served In Danny Masterson Lawsuit

"The Church of Scientology is attempting to distance leader David Miscavige from a harassment lawsuit stemming from actor Danny Masterson's sexual assault scandal.

In California court documents obtained by RadarOnline.com, three witnesses filed declarations on November 18, 2019 to say that the Chairman of the Board could not be served in the lawsuit, and therefore should not be a defendant.

Specifically, they argued that Celebrity Centre (CC) — a Scientology church that caters to celebrities — was not run by or managed by Miscavige, so he should not have been served at the location.

According to the filing, the receptionist of Celebrity Centre, Lewis Miranda, claimed that the man who attempted to serve Miscavige with papers did not specify who he was delivering them to, or where the documents were meant to be served.

"The Man insisted that he had to deliver the papers at 6331 Hollywood Boulevard. He then placed several documents on the security desk in front of me and left the building," Miranda wrote. "During the conversation on October 10, 2019, the Man never mentioned Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International or Religious Technology Center or indicated that he was delivering anything for Church of Scientology Celebrity Centre International or Religious Technology Center."

Miranda continued: "During the conversation on October 10, 2019, the Man never mentioned David Miscavige or Daniel Masterson or indicated that he was delivering anything for Mr. Miscavige or Mr. Masterson."

The second declaration came from a security officer and secretary at Celebrity Centre, Margaret Marmolejo, who also identified herself as the 'designated Custodian of Records for CC.'"

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Fugitive Indian guru establishes 'cosmic country off Ecuador'

Nithyananda, who faces charges of rape and abduction, trumpets ‘world’s purest Hindu nation’

Hannah Ellis-Petersen South Asia correspondent
The Guardian
December 5, 2019

A fugitive guru and self-anointed “godman” who is facing charges of abduction and rape in India has established his own island nation, reportedly off the coast of Ecuador.

Nithyananda, who built up a huge spiritual following in India, is on the run from the Gujarat police over multiple allegations that he abducted and confined children to collect donations for his ashram and that he raped one of his disciples.

While Nithyananda’s whereabouts are unknown, on Wednesday he announced he was establishing the sovereign “Republic of Kailaasa”, which would be the “world’s greatest and purest Hindu nation”.

The “cosmic country” will reportedly be established on a private island off the coast of Ecuador, purchased by some of his wealthy devotees. Applications are open for those who want to apply for citizenship and a passport, which allows for “free entry in all 11 dimensions and 14 lokas [the 14 worlds of Hinduism] including Kailaasa”.

Only practising Hindus are allowed to apply for citizenship. A donation needs to be made to Kailaasa in order to be put forward for citizenship and all passport applications will be personally approved by Nithyananda.

Kailaasa describes itself as “a nation without borders created by dispossessed Hindus from around the world who lost the right to practice Hinduism authentically in their own countries”.

According to Indian media, at least “three prominent personalities” from Ahmedabad, where Nithyananda’s main ashram is based, already plan to relocate to the island.

As the founder of the Nithyananda Dhyanapeetam Trust, the guru has set up over a dozen temples and ashrams across India. But he has attracted much derision over claims of his spiritual abilities, including being able to delay the sunrise for 40 minutes, being able to see through walls, curing 82 children of blindness by “opening their third eye” and getting cows to speak in Sanskrit and Tamil. In 2010 there was further controversy over the release of a sex tape featuring him and a female Tamil actor.

Despite being a fugitive from the law for more than a year, Nithyananda has continued to broadcast live to his followers on YouTube, and it was on the platform that he declared the establishment of his new nation. It followed an address last week during which he stated: “Some people against me, they are looking for me, but I am in the Himalayas, in Kailaasa.”

A website dedicated to Kailaasa recently appeared, declaring that the country will offer universal healthcare, free food distribution, free education and “revival of a temple-based lifestyle”.

The site says Kailaasa also has its own cabinet, and government departments of homeland security, commerce, treasury, housing, technology and “enlightened civilisation”. The country also has its own flag, constitution and Hindu Investment and Reserve Bank, where cryptocurrency will reportedly be accepted as part of a “Dharmic economy”.

Last month, Gujarat police raided Nithyananda’s ashram in Ahmedabad and arrested two managers. The raid followed the release of several children who had allegedly been kidnapped and locked up in the ashram. “They were verbally abused horribly, they were beaten,” read a police report on the case. Nithyananda had already faced charges of raping a female disciple for five years during her stay in the ashram, under the guise of helping her spiritually, but he failed to turn up to his trial last year.

In 2014, one of his followers died in mysterious circumstances in his ashram. Leaders at the ashram claimed she died from a heart attack, but the family said they suspected foul play.



https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/05/fugitive-indian-guru-establishes-island-nation-off-ecuador

Short Creek starts to move beyond its past as a fundamentalist fief

A small community straddling the Utah-Arizona border charts a new course

The Economist
December 7, 2019

Judging by its shops, Short Creek seems more like a trendy suburb of somewhere like Portland than a small town on the Utah-Arizona border with just shy of 8,000 people. There are two health-food stores, a bakery and a vape shop. The occasional sight of women in prairie dresses and the huge houses with thick walls are the only conspicuous evidence Short Creek was once home to an American theocracy.

When the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (lds), better known as the Mormon church, abandoned several controversial doctrines in 1890, there were dissenters. Some, seeking to preserve abandoned institutions such as “plural marriage” (polygamy) and communal ownership, formed communities practising “Old-Fashioned Mormonism”. By the early 1930s Short Creek was such a place.

The settlement was largely ignored by the outside world, apart from the occasional court case over polygamy and an ill-advised raid by the state of Arizona in 1953, when 263 children were taken from their parents and held for up to three years, inciting widespread sympathy for the town. Short Creek ultimately incorporated as two places: Hildale City, Utah in 1962 and Colorado City, Arizona in 1985. It was not until the turn of the century that outsiders started paying attention again.

Short Creek’s church, by then called the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (flds), had long been headed by a “prophet”. The church’s most famous, Warren Jeffs, assumed the title in 2002. By excommunicating dissenters—which meant ostracisation by believers, even spouses and children—Mr Jeffs took control of the priesthood and therefore of the town’s resources and government, as most residents and city office-holders were church members. He began to exercise total authority over relationships, starting by marrying many of his stepmothers. He removed all flds children from public school and banned television, books other than approved scripture, toys and red clothing. Mr Jeffs was arrested in 2006 after a stint on the fbi’s most-wanted list for charges related to sexual abuse of a minor. He is serving a life sentence in Texas.

Mr Jeffs’s arrest did not end Short Creek’s legal troubles. The United States began court proceedings against Colorado City and Hildale City in 2012, alleging that city officials and local utility providers had acted in concert to “deny non-flds individuals housing, police protection, and access to public space and services”. The flds filled the local marshal’s office with loyal members who turned a blind eye to under-age marriages and food-stamp fraud. The marshal’s office trained and equipped a formal security force, called “Church Security”, with the primary purpose of helping church leaders evade the law. They held mock fbi raids to be ready for the real thing, and even helped burgle the business of an ex-flds member who had evidence that Mr Jeffs had raped a 12-year-old in the presence of other girls.

The two cities lost their case in 2016. Both then appealed, though Hildale City withdrew in 2018. The ruling was upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in August of this year.

Over the course of the proceedings, Short Creek has changed dramatically. Many true believers have moved away, while the town has seen both the return of ex-flds members and an influx of newcomers. Though the government of Colorado City is still controlled by flds members, Hildale City elected non-flds councillors and an ex-flds mayor in 2017, causing a number of flds city employees to resign.

Most of the towns’ businesses opened recently. The Edge of the World Brewery served its first beer in March 2018. The Black Cloud vape shop opened three months later. Few flds-run businesses remain. And the children have returned to class. An old flds storehouse has since become Water Canyon High School.

With these changes has come a newfound democratic zeal. At a town-hall meeting on October 21st the citizens of Hildale City debated paving the town’s many dirt roads. Mr Jeffs’s name came up only one time, invoked by a man who had moved in relatively recently. There is a long road still to travel to escape Mr Jeffs’s legacy, but the community of Short Creek has set off in the right direction.

This article appeared in the United States section of the print edition under the headline "Theocracy in America"

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2019/12/07/short-creek-starts-to-move-beyond-its-past-as-a-fundamentalist-fief

CultNEWS101 Articles: 12/6/2019

Mormon, BYU-Idaho, Sexual Abuse, Tony Robbins, Bikram Yoga

The Salt Lake Tribune: BYU-Idaho no longer accepts Medicaid, and some students are dropping out of school

" ... Casey Wilson took some time off from school last year when she found out she was pregnant with her second baby boy.

The young mom had hoped to miss only a semester or two at Brigham Young University's campus in Idaho. She was just a few credits away from earning her degree in art education and set a goal of finishing before Kelvin, who's 4 months old now, started to talk.

But before Wilson could sign up for classes beginning in January, as she planned, the college announced it no longer would allow students to enroll with only Medicaid as their health insurance.

And now, she can't afford to return at all.

"I am devastated," Wilson said, choking back tears as her baby cooed in her arms. "I love school. I want to graduate. But we're a struggling family, and we don't have the money for [private insurance]."

The controversial decision from BYU-Idaho — a private school owned by the Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — came as a surprise to students last week. School administrators announced the change in an email one day after Idaho received approval letters from the federal government for its Medicaid expansion plan, which voters in the state overwhelmingly supported last year."

NPR: After Complaints, BYU-Idaho Reverses Medicaid Decision

Nearly a month after changing its policy, BYU-Idaho has reversed course. Late last night [November 25th], the school issued a statement to students and the media, saying it would allow students on Medicaid to enroll and, quote, "we apologize for the turmoil caused by our earlier decision."

AP: Lawsuit: Church pressured victims into unfair settlements

"Two impoverished Mississippi men who say they were sexually assaulted by Franciscan missionaries filed a federal lawsuit Thursday claiming that Catholic officials pressured them into signing settlements that paid them little money and required them to remain silent about the alleged abuse.

The lawsuit, filed in New York, claims the church officials drew up the agreements a year ago to prevent the men from telling their stories or going to court — a violation of a 2002 promise by American bishops to abandon the use of nondisclosure agreements, as part of an effort to end the cover-up of sexual abuse within the church."

Buzz Feed: Tony Robbins Has Been Accused Of Sexually Assaulting A High Schooler At A Summer Camp

"As evening fell on a eucalyptus-lined hillside overlooking the Pacific Ocean, the teenage campers spilled out of a well-lit hall. They had spent the day enthralled by the self-help guru Tony Robbins, who had taught them how to reach for their dreams.

It was the summer of 1985, and Robbins, already rich and famous at the age of 25, was a star speaker at SuperCamp, an elite summer camp in Southern California on a campus with bubbling fountains and a grand Mediterranean-style villa. But what was about to happen would shatter the peace of the tranquil setting — and scar the memories of dozens of campers for decades.

The teens set off through the trees to the site of their next activity. Steffanie Scott, then 15, remembered jogging outside with a small group when she glimpsed something that brought her to an abrupt stop. She recalled seeing Robbins towering over the slight figure of a female camper, pinning her arms back as he kissed her forcefully. "He was going for her, his whole body was pressed up against her," Scott recalled. "I wouldn't want to be pinned," she said. "Not like that."

Nearby in the woods, close enough to see Robbins kissing a camper with his arms wrapped around her, stood 16-year-old Eva Bush. Her first impulse was jealousy; then it hit her that Robbins was a grown man, and her feelings turned to anger. That camper, she thought, was "definitely too young," and the self-help guru was in a position of power. You're taking fucking advantage, she thought at the time.

Under the trees with Robbins was Elle, a studious teenager who, along with the other campers, had been sent to SuperCamp by her parents to boost her grades, build self-confidence, and gain new life skills. To protect her identity, BuzzFeed News is not revealing her full name or exact age, but she was under 18 — legally a minor in California — at the time of the events described.

At the end of the last session, the guru had asked her to accompany him on a walk through the trees; they pressed on until they reached a clearing. There, she recalled in a 2,400-word account provided through her lawyers, he forced himself upon her — kissing her and groping her breasts in a prolonged sexual assault."

" ... Robbins adamantly denied kissing or groping the camper. His lawyers acknowledged a "situation" at the camp but said it was a "non-issue," which was 'addressed with the camp attendees, the young woman, and her parents, and no one suggested that there was a sexual assault.'"

Gulf News: Bikram Choudhury: Yoga, sex and humiliation

"New Delhi: Once a hot yoga guru in Hollywood, Bikram Choudhury is today labelled a rapist, predator, racist and control maniac. How did his successful story turn around so drastically?

The new Netflix documentary "Bikram: Yogi, Guru, Predator" aims to answer that question. It traces the journey of how he built his "Bikram" empire, putting spotlight on the dark side of the movement, driven by stories of sexual exploitation, brainwashing, racist comments, rape and control on things outside the yoga studio.

Bikram started having his hot moment in the US when he went to Beverly Hills from India in the early 1970s. Wearing a tiny black Speedo and a tight ponytail, he started carving his story by showing the route of healing with 26 postures over a 90-minute routine practiced in a room heated to 41 degree centigrade. He even tried getting a copyright for his yoga postures.

His success was backed by star power, and his client list included names such as Madonna, Lady Gaga, Jennifer Aniston, George Clooney, Robert Downey Jr., Frank Sinatra and Jason Bateman. His clientele shone with names like Michael Jackson, Jeff Bridges, Shirley MacLaine, Barbra Streisand and Raquel Welch."

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Links to stories on Tzu Chi:

1. TAICHUNG RELIGIOUS CULT RAID POINTS TO LARGER SOCIAL ISSUE (https://newbloommag.net/2019/10/03/religious-cult-bust/)
2. ROLLS-ROYCE PURCHASES PROMPTS MOCKERY, CRITICISM OF RULAIZONG SPIRITUAL LEADER (https://newbloommag.net/2017/09/29/rulaizong-rolls-royce/)
3. Glass Door (https://www.glassdoor.com/Reviews/Buddhist-Compassion-Relief-Tzu-Chi-Foundation-Reviews-E799001.htm) 
4. Universal Love, For Some? – A Closer Look at Tzu Chi (https://jacobtischer.wordpress.com/2015/09/18/a-closer-look-at-tzu-chi/)
5. A Curious Case In Tzu Chi Foundation’s Recent Scandal (https://partnews.mit.edu/2015/03/17/a-curious-case-in-tzu-chi-foundations-recent-scandal/)

Hugo Stamm on Yogic Flying and the Guru-Cult around Transcendental Meditation

wocomoHUMANITY

November 27, 2019

Cult expert and journalist Hugo Stamm on Yogic Flying and the Guru-Cult around Transcendental Meditation.

The interview was shot 2008 in Rütli, Switzerland, for the production of the documentary "David wants to Fly" by David Sieveking.

https://youtu.be/AOpbZC9Gk-U

CultNEWS101 Articles: 11/21/2019

Tajul Khalwatiyah Syekh Yusuf School, Robert Jay Lifton,  Jehovah's Witness, Church of Almighty God

Coconuts: Sect leader who claims to be a prophet and able to extend followers' lives by 15 year

"Police in Gowa, South Sulawesi recently arrested an elderly man named Puang Lalang on suspicion of blasphemy over his leadership of a sect that was considered too deviant for Indonesia.

According to the police, Puang Lalang founded the Tajul Khalwatiyah Syekh Yusuf school — an Islamic offshoot —  in 1999 and declared himself a prophet.

In mainstream Islamic beliefs, the Prophet Muhammad is believed to be the last messenger of God.

"The suspect spread misguided beliefs by having followers take a pledge, indoctrinating them and promising them safety in life and the afterlife," Gowa Police Shinto Silitonga told reporters this week.

Police suspect that the sect was a vehicle for self-enrichment for Puang Lalang. According to the police, Puang Lalang charged followers IDR10,000-50,000 (US$0.71-3.57) for the aptly-named "heaven card" to signify membership. He also mandated members to pay religious alms, which amounted to IDR5,000 for every kilogram of the followers' body weight."

Wall Street Journal: Five Best: Robert Jay Lifton on Worlds Destroyed

The author, most recently, of 'Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry' selects books on the aftermath of cataclysm.

Vice: Calling Out Sexual Abuse in the Jehovah's Witnesses Is a Horrific Struggle

"In 2013, after Debbie McDaniel left her Jehovah's Witness congregation in McAlester, Oklahoma, she went to police and told them members had been sitting outside her apartment, monitoring her every move. The Witnesses, she said, were trying to make the case that she was unfit to parent her son, on account of being in a relationship with a woman. But it was something else she told a detective that most alarmed the cops, she said: "You would think an organization that would allow me to be molested for years could now just let me go in peace."

Within weeks, cops had arrested Ronald Lawrence, whom McDaniel, 50, accused of molesting her when she was underage, as Reveal News reported. At least two other people came forward with similar allegations. According to the Tulsa-World, Lawrence told prosecutors he had been "disfellowshipped" (basically excommunicated) from the church over sexual abuse allegations, that he had admitted misconduct in the past in order to be reinstated, and that law enforcement had never previously been informed. He has also denied abusing any Jehovah's Witness children, including McDaniel. When brought before a judge in 2014, 19 charges of sexual abuse against him were deemed to have passed the statute of limitations, and he walked free.

Eventually, Witnesses stopped waiting outside McDaniel's home."

Bitter Winter: Inside the Shenzhen Family Suicide (II): Political Driving Force Behind Fake Case

" ... Chinese media reported a case involving the unusual deaths of Qian Xude and three of his family members from Xinzhuang village, under the jurisdiction of Nanjing city in the eastern province of Jiangsu. The bodies of Qian Xude and two others were found hidden in a freezer in a rental room in Shenzhen city in the southern province of Guangdong, while Qian Xude's daughter, Qian Limei, committed suicide by jumping off a building in Shangqiu city in the central province of Henan. However, the police never filed a case after investigating the deaths, attributing some to natural causes and others to suicide.

On October 17, The Beijing News, owned by the Beijing municipal Party Committee, and Southern Weekly, a well-known newspaper owned by the Guangdong provincial Party Committee, simultaneously published an article, repackaging and sensationalizing this sensational case, placing the blame on The Church of Almighty God (CAG). Afterward, this fake news story was widely reported by the official media, in an attempt to create a new public opinion campaign against the CAG."

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