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Reminder: Andrew Cuomo first knew that NXIVM had "acquired" a 3 year old child in 2010

sauce: https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/NXIVM-critic-s-plea-over-child-gets-little-action-600579.php

NXIVM critic's plea over child gets little action

Attorney hopes letters spur action by Cuomo's office on behalf of 3-year-old boy

August 3, 2010

ALBANY – A major critic of the leaders of a Colonie-based organization that litigants describe as a cult is blasting Attorney General Andrew Cuomo for disregarding warnings about alleged misdeeds and suspicious activities, such as members acquiring and instructing a child.

Attorney Joseph J. O'Hara said Cuomo's office has shown little interest in complaint letters he sent in June and July. The letters urged Cuomo, who is running as a Democrat for governor, to take a look at NXIVM and some of its top loyalists and underwriters, including the wealthy sisters Clare and Sara Bronfman, who live in the Capital Region. In the letters, O'Hara alleged they misused foundation money to benefit NXIVM leader Keith Raniere of Clifton Park.

O'Hara told Cuomo, whose office oversees charities, that tax-exempt foundation funds were used to buy Raniere an expensive piano and to pay for nannies helping to raise a child named Gaelen who is being raised through a novel Raniere education program. The 3-year-old child is living in Clifton Park with a NXIVM devotee who is not his biological mother. The child, according to former NXIVM officials, was obtained by a NXIVM student in Michigan and brought back to Saratoga County to live among a cluster of townhouses where NXIVM students and instructors live.

NXIVM, which operates a self-awareness training regime called Executive Success Programs from its Colonie headquarters, follows Raniere's philosophical teachings of looking at life from a new ethical perspective in which people are either parasites or producers.

O'Hara, in an interview, said he has urged Cuomo to investigate twice in recent months because of his growing concerns that NXIVM officials are raising the boy in a way that could cause him harm.

O'Hara, who worked for NXIVM officials several years ago, implies that Cuomo, who has received considerable campaign donations from the Bronfman family, is not eager to investigate for political reasons. "I understand why anyone who is running for office would be reluctant to investigate the members of a family as wealthy and as influential as the Bronfman family," he said. "It seems to me, however, that Gaelen's safety is much more important than any political considerations."

A person in the attorney general's office said a review was started after receiving O'Hara's letter. A person familiar with the attorney general's office said that Cuomo's representative has reached out to officials with the Bronfman-led foundation regarding the use of charitable assets and its registration status.

The person said that allegations in O'Hara's letters appear to be more suited for a district attorney or a social services department. O'Hara said he doesn't have faith in local DAs. Representatives of NXIVM and the Bronfmans did not return calls, including attorneys for the Albany law firm of O'Connell and Aronowitz who O'Hara, in one of his letters, asserted may have misstated facts. For instance, Pamela Nichols, in a letter to Saratoga County blogger John Tighe, a local NXIVM watchdog, stated that Kristen Keeffe, a NXIVM paralegal worker and activist, is the mother of the boy. O'Hara said this is not supported by testimony in a sworn statement obtained through a court action. The letter to Tighe threatened legal action if he continued blog postings about Gaelen. Tighe said he called local authorities about his concerns about the boy but was told they are unable to act on hearsay.

O'Hara said in his letter to Cuomo that he first raised concerns to federal authorities and the attorney general's office about activities involving NXIVM officials in 2005. O'Hara, a former Albany Firebirds president and onetime owner of the Capital Region Pontiacs and Albany Patroons basketball teams, was sued by NXIVM and was accused of larceny by the Bronfmans. The civil case was settled and criminal charges were dropped.

O'Hara said he thinks Gaelen is being subjected to experimentation because he is being raised by a number of nannies who speak to him in different languages – Egyptian, Chinese, Russian, German, Hindi and Spanish – and who attend NXIVM classes. The boy is on a rigorous schedule, eats a raw foods diet and rarely interacts with other children, according to people familiar with the program.

Some child development experts, briefed on Gaelen's situation, raised questions. Lily Filmore, a retired University of California at Berkeley language professor, said the program, which Raniere calls the Rainbow Cultural Garden, sounds "highly unusual" and could be confusing to the child…..

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There were many others in New York who knew what NXIVM was doing.

Thankfully the premise of this article turned out not to be true, but it gives a good list of other officials in New York who knew what NXIVM was doing.

sauce: https://frankreport.com/2017/12/17/legal-insider-all-this-media-exposure-will-blow-by-law-enforcement-will-do-nothing-nothing-at-all/

It was great to see Keith Raniere and Nancy Salzman exposed on 20/20 for the total frauds they are – and for those two twits, Clare and Sara Bronfman, to be exposed for the mindless fools they are. But it’s still an open question as to whether any law enforcement agency is going to do anything to stop all this madness.

We know it won’t be NYS Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose Department of Health is “still investigating” the NXIVM doctors who brand Raniere’s slaves, and conduct psychological experiments on children.

Cuomo also refused to do anything about NXIVM when he was NYS Attorney General. And the current NYS Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, looks like he’s just blowing smoke to keep Catherine Oxenberg pacified.

The Office of the U.S. Attorney in Albany has known about Raniere’s criminal enterprise for almost 15 years and the current guy, Grant Jaquith, has done nothing about it since he took over. And the local FBI Office, which is headed up by Vadim Thomas, has spent much more time meeting with high-level NXIVM reps to receive reports on the cult’s enemies than it ever spent investigating Raniere and his followers. There have also been rumors about inappropriate relationships between one of NXIVM resp and at least one FBI Special Agent.

Maybe the NYS Police, you suggest. Nope…Senior Investigator Rodger Kirsopp, the guy who was assigned to investigate NXIVM, got flipped somehow and then spent more than three years trying to put together a criminal case against several people who allegedly accessed NXIVM’s website without permission. All the charges were dismissed, of course, when it turned out that Albany County had no jurisdiction over the alleged crime.

How about the Albany County DA, P. David Soares, you ask? Sorry, his two sisters and brother-in-law were cult members and he let a high-ranking member of the cult pose in his office as a legal intern even though she was a high-school dropout. And most of his political funding comes from the Working Families Party, which just happens to get large contributions from the Bronfman family every year. (So does Schneiderman).

Well, what about the Saratoga County DA Karen Heggen? Maybe she’ll see this as a woman’s cause and make them at least stop with the branding? Nope. She doesn’t have time to even investigate what’s going on in her own backyard.

Wait, how about the Internal Revenue Service, whose local Director is Lee Whitlock? Nope, they’ve been sitting on complaints for more than 15 years and have never once done anything to go after Raniere and his followers for tax evasion, money laundering, etc., etc., etc.

Maybe the NYS Department of Taxation & Finance? Nope, they’ve been sitting on the same info as the IRS for more than 10 years and recently hired Bruce Lennard, one of the Special Prosecutors who was involved in the criminal computer trespass case with the NYS Police. The other Special Prosecutor, Holly Trexler, is now a judge in Albany City Court…..

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Clare Bronfman owned most of Wakaya Island in Fiji

sauce: https://frankreport.com/2017/06/19/there-will-always-be-fiji-clare-bronfman-purchased-most-of-wakaya-island-last-august/

On August 11, 2016, Clare Bronfman [and her Ack Group of Companies] purchased Wakaya Ltd, which owns about 80 percent of Wakaya Island, a small [2,200 acre/eight square mile] island in Fiji.

Miss Bronfman already owned a private home on Wakaya prior to purchasing Wakaya Ltd, from David and Jillian Gilmour.

Miss Bronfman is the financier of Keith Raniere’s business and teaching enterprises.

Mr. Raniere is her acknowledged mentor and Miss Bronfman has also been reported to have made a lifelong Vow of obedience to Mr. Raniere as his “slave” and joined his harem.

Some believe Miss Bronfman purchased then land in the Fiji’s as part of a plan for Mr. Raniere and her and select members of his harem to leave the US in the event that prosecution seems imminent.

The then- uninhabited island of Wakaya was bought in 1973 by Gilmour, a gold-mining entrepreneur who developed the island, building 22 kilometres of roads, a freshwater reservoir, an airstrip, marina, jetty, village, church, gym, school and a runway.

He also developed the Wakaya Club & Spa, an exclusive resort with 10 luxury bungalows with a staff of 300. It also houses a large private villa and four private beaches.

He sold off about 20 percent of the island to private interests. There are about a dozen exclusive homes and other private ownership interests on the island.

Wakaya’s populatian is 300-600 people.

Mr. Gilmour started a business in 2009 called Wakaya Perfection which sources a range of organic wellness products from Wakaya, which Mr. Gilmour, 85, plans to continue to own and operate. Prior to that Gilmour founded FIJI Water, one of the country’s biggest export earners.

The sales agreement between Miss Bronfman and Mr. Gilmour permit him to continue to spend time on the island, as he operates the business. In prior years Mr. Gilmour and his wife spent about four months on the island. He is a native of Australia.

Wakaya is 18 kilometres from Ovalau, the main island in the Lomaiviti Group……