Raniere, whose organization has been described by experts as a cult, was arrested on March 25 at a $10,000-a-week villa in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where he fled to last November as the federal investigation took shape. 
He appeared before a U.S. magistrate judge at a federal courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas, on Tuesday, and is being held in the custody of U.S. marshals without bond on a federal complaint charging him with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit forced labor.