Mack’s team of lawyers made the request Friday in a filing that also seeks to have tossed out a superseding indictment against her, Raniere and their co-defendants.

“The Court should not allow evidence of Child Exploitation Acts before any jury that will judge Ms. Mack. As an initial matter, any evidence of the alleged Child Exploitation Acts would highly and unfairly prejudice Ms. Mack, who has no connection whatsoever to these new predicate acts or the substantive counts against Raniere,” the filing said. “Given the well-recognized inflammatory effect of such allegations, the Court should sever Ms. Mack from Raniere and order a separate trial.”

Prosecutors allege that Raniere, 58, had sexual relationships with children and made kiddie porn — and that Mack and her co-defendants Seagram heiress Clare Bronfman, Lauren Salzman and Kathy Russell “facilitated” the illicit affairs.

Mack, 36, was slapped with an additional racketeering charge — but her lawyers downplayed the new indictment as “barely changed” from the initial one but acknowledged that it added “disturbing allegations” against Raniere.

The one-time “Smallville” actress is charged with being Raniere’s right-hand woman, luring young women to the alleged cult as sex slaves.

Opening arguments in the trial are set for April 29.

https://pagesix.com/2019/03/25/allison-mack-is-begging-for-a-separate-nxivm-trial/

Judge overseeing key Jeffrey Epstein-related suit dies

An elderly federal judge presiding over a key lawsuit relating to financier pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died Sunday, adding another twist to the drawn-out legal saga and to efforts to unseal still-secret details about the conduct of Epstein, his enablers and one of his accusers.

Manhattan-based U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet passed away Sunday at age 96, the court announced. Sweet was appointed by President Jimmy Carter in 1978, confirmed that same year and continued to hear and rule on cases through the last few months.

Sweet was assigned to a lawsuit that emerged from the aftermath of Epstein’s controversial plea deal a decade ago, in which he escaped federal charges by pleading guilty to two prostitution-related offenses in state court. Epstein ended up spending 13 months in jail, with daily furloughs that allowed him to work in his office.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/03/25/judge-jeffrey-epstein-case-dies-1292394

Social media bosses face jail over terror content after Christchurch

In addition to punishment of the companies, Australian-based executives could be found personally liable and face severe penalties, including imprisonment.

The original Facebook video shared by 28-year-old Australian Brenton Tarrant is estimated to have been online for up to an hour, and viewed 4000 times before its was removed. During this time it was copied and spread across the internet, including another 1.5 million attempted uploads to Facebook in the first 24 hours. YouTube said it removed an "unprecedented" volume of content.

The footage has also been hosted on forums like 8chan that have been temporarily blocked by internet service providers, including Telstra, Vodafone and Optus.

In an era of 'fake news', tragedies like we saw in Christchurch, and countless examples like the treatment of Tayla Harris [a football player who faced sexist comments online after her photo was posted on social media], it's easy to see why," Senator Hanson-Young said in a statement.

She called for a Productivity Commission inquiry into media ownership to look at whether existing concentrations should be broken up and for ways the government can encourage diversity.

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/social-media-bosses-face-jail-over-terror-content-after-christchurch-20190325-p517b9.html

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