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One of the organizers of a nightly dance party outside the Metropolitan Detention Center federal jail in Brooklyn acknowledged in a rambling interview Wednesday that he has close ties to the Nxivm sex cult — but claimed the two movements were unrelated.

Eduardo Asunsolo, who is organizing the dances outside the MDC with his group the Forgotten Ones, said in an interview posted to their website that he was a former “teacher” at Nxivm and has been a friend of the cult’s leader, Keith Raniere, for a decade.

Asunsolo, who said he wasn’t going to “defend Nxivm,” spoke glowingly of the group and said it has been misrepresented in the media. He ranted about news reports on the dances, claiming they misrepresented participants — then compared the coverage to Nazi Germany and systemic racism against African Americans.

“I was a teacher in Nxivm and Keith Raniere is my friend. He’s been my friend for 10 years,” Asunsolo said. “It’s interesting that if you go and you read the news and you judge the people that appear in the news just by what appears in the news, that’s what happens.”

“That’s why there’s millions of black people in jail because prejudice rendered them defenseless and if we do that again with another group because you call it a sex cult … it’s no different,” he went on.

After a report in the Albany Times Union identified several dancers as having ties to the cult, Asunsolo described the coverage as attempts to attack the movement. He elaborated that seven members of Nxivm have been involved in the dances, but that others who have shown up have no connection to Raniere.

https://nypost.com/2020/07/16/leader-of-brooklyn-federal-jail-dances-admits-ties-to-nxivm-sex-cult/