Below I have listed links and a short excerpt from several articles easily found online that give a brief overview of the people involved; however, I believe that there are still a lot of "players" that are yet to be publicly named.
I started out with a recent article you may have read in the Observer Dispatch and I then circled back to 2010 when Cuomo was more eager to please the donors to the Democrat Party than worry about the welfare of a 3-year-old child.
Besides, think of the "can of worms" it would have opened up...how could Cuomo let an investigation take place that would lead right back to him?
I encourage everyone to go to the links I have provided and read the whole story so you can get an idea of how sick these people are and how close to home this really will hit when all is said and done.
Bottom line, friends...You can read it now or wait until this whole things blows up in everyone's face...the choice to know is yours!
From the Observer Dispatch
Jon Campbell - Albany Bureau
Published May 24, 2019 and updated July 6, 2021
Listen to Allison Mack and Keith Raniere discuss branding women in alleged NXIVM sex cult
ALBANY – Keith Raniere and actor Allison Mack openly discussed their plans to brand women who were part of a secret master-slave group in recorded conversations played in Brooklyn federal court this week.
In a series of discussions, Raniere is heard discussing his vision for the brand, a logo containing his and Mack's initials that was burned into the pelvis of women who were members of DOS, the group whose members prosecutors say were groomed for sex with Raniere and forced to follow the demands of their "masters."
In one conversation with Mack, Raniere — who led NXIVM, a cult-like organization based in the Albany area — told her to ensure the women would strip nude before receiving the brand and be held to a table "almost as a sacrifice."
“Almost like tied down like a sacrificial whatever, and the person should ask to be branded," Raniere, who grew up in Suffern, is heard saying in the taped conversation, which was introduced as evidence by prosecutors and played in court Wednesday.
From Albany Times-Union
August 3, 2010
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
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.
From CBS NEWS
October 20, 2017
Women say they were branded and traumatized by secret group's doctors
ALBANY, N.Y. -- Women say they were branded and traumatized by doctors in a secretive group, and state officials will review why authorities didn't act sooner on the women's reports, a spokesman for New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Friday.
State officials will examine whether the women's complaints warrant an investigation now, the Democratic governor's spokesman Richard Azzopardi said.
The action comes after the New York Times reported on complaints about a group affiliated with the self-help organization NXIVM, which is based in suburban Albany and has chapters across the country. NXIVM, on its website, calls the women's complaints "lies."
In a complaint filed with the state Department of Health over the summer and shared with the Times, a woman said Dr. Brandon Porter, of the Albany suburb Clifton Park, did studies on behalf of NXIVM's personal development program. In one study, she said, Porter connected her to brainwave monitoring equipment and without warning showed her film clips depicting extreme violence including gang rape. She said she has been haunted by the images for almost a year.
Other women complained to the health department that Dr. Danielle Roberts, a family doctor in Clifton Park, used a surgical device to burn brands on women's lower abdomens during their initiations into a secret sorority within NXIVM.
Porter resigned his position as a general practitioner at St. Peter's Hospital in Albany after the Times story was published, a hospital spokesman said.
From Rolling Stone
November 21, 2017
Is NXIVM a Cult? What We Know
Update: On Monday, March 26th, NXIVM leader Keith Raniere was arrested in Mexico and brought back to Texas to face federal criminal sex-trafficking charges. He is set to appear in front of a judge in Fort Worth on Tuesday.
Last month, the New York Times published a bombshell report about a private offshoot of NXIVM, a secretive self-help group run out of Albany, New York. Reporter Barry Meier interviewed ex-members of the cult-like group, with various women claiming they’d been branded, starved, held as “slaves” and blackmailed into providing naked pictures to prevent them from leaving or speaking out.
The story has intensified in the past few days, with disturbing new allegations emerging regarding the group’s leader, Keith Raniere, 57, and one of his alleged co-leaders, Emmy Award-winning Smallville actress Allison Mack. On November 9th, former NXIVM publicist Frank Parlato told The Sun that Mack may have recruited up to 25 women to serve as sex slaves for the secret sect, which he says is named “DOS.”
Restoring Liberty reports:
April 25, 2018
Nxivm Sex Trafficking Cult Now Connected to Supreme Court Justice, Clinton Fundraiser, Not Just Smallville Actress and U.S. Senator Gillibrand’s Father
Longtime Clinton friend and fundraiser Richard Mays, an Arkansas lawyer, was active with the New York sex cult that reportedly hacked emails sent and received by Hillary Clinton.
Mays had an extensive videotaped conversation with the cult’s leader Keith Raniere — who has been arrested for sex trafficking alongside his protégé, Smallville actress Allison Mack, and whose cult allegedly branded women with his initials. That interview was part of the “Keith Raniere Conversations” program, available on his website.
Mays reportedly had “intensive classes with Raniere,” whose Nxivm cult was previously called Executive Success Programs.
Mays has long been linked to the Clintons, and Bill Clinton appointed him to the Arkansas Supreme Court. New York magazine once described him as “a Clinton friend and one of Hillary’s top fund-raisers.” (Read more from “Nxivm Sex Trafficking Cult Now Connected to Supreme Court Justice, Clinton Fundraiser, Not Just Smalllville Actress and U.S. Senator Gillibrand’s Father” More of the story HERE
From Artvoice
May 11, 2018
Special Prosecutor, Schneiderman, Cuomo, Hochul & Hochul and NXIVM – intertwined in the swamp?
Well, there’s definitely a lot to unpack here in terms of having a Special Prosecutor appointed to look into disgraced former NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
To begin with, Gov. Cuomo did that on Wednesday. He appointed Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas to serve in that role and she’s promised to “vigorously investigate” the allegations.
So, problem solved, right?
Well, not exactly. Cuomo moved quickly to get this investigation into the hands of a political friend – just like he quickly pushed for Schneiderman to resign – mostly because he hates Schneiderman and views him as a dangerous political rival. So, just because we have a Special Prosecutor handling the case, don’t expect justice to necessarily prevail.
Schneiderman deserves the same kind of treatment he was so good at dishing out.
But Cuomo, who still thinks he has a shot to be President, has his own unopened closet. And Schneiderman supposedly had the keys to it. Of course, those keys won’t work anymore unless Schneiderman passes them on to someone with “clean hands” (Good luck finding such a person in Albany).
And let’s not forget that while he was Attorney General, Cuomo did a number of things to help out NXIVM, the sex slaver cult.
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