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Seagram heiress Clare Bronfman pleads guilty in New York sex cult case
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | 4/19/19 | Brendan Pierson

Posted on 04/19/2019 9:26:05 PM PDT by Libloather

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Seagram liquor heiress Clare Bronfman pleaded guilty on Friday to harboring an illegal immigrant and enabling credit card fraud as part of an alleged sex cult based in upstate New York.

Bronfman, 40, entered her plea to the two criminal counts before U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis in federal court in Brooklyn, New York. She is one of several people charged in connection with a secretive organization called Nxivm, which federal prosecutors have described as a racketeering organization.

Bronfman admitted that she knowingly harbored a woman brought to the United States on a fake work visa in order to obtain that woman's labor for herself and the organization. She also said she helped Nxivm's founder, Keith Raniere, use a deceased woman's credit card.

As part of her plea, Bronfman agreed to forfeit $6 million, and not to appeal any prison sentence of 27 months or less. She said she was "truly remorseful."

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: bronfman; castingcouch; clarebronfman; cult; guilty; homofascism; humantrafficking; keithraniere; kirstengillibrand; metoo; newyork; nxivm; seagram
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"I wanted to do good in the world and help people," she said. "However, I have made mistakes."

The perfect reason to join a sex cult.

1 posted on 04/19/2019 9:26:05 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Plead guilty and avoid discovery!


2 posted on 04/19/2019 9:27:21 PM PDT by hoosiermama (When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice.DJT)
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To: Libloather

TTIUWOP...


3 posted on 04/19/2019 9:27:32 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Libloather

Weird people.


4 posted on 04/19/2019 9:27:39 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Libloather

I’ll drink to that...


5 posted on 04/19/2019 9:28:47 PM PDT by OrangeHoof (Trump is Making the Media Grate Again)
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To: Cementjungle

You want to see really weird people, watch the CBS TV series “Strange Angel.”

It’s really well done and mixes aviation and rocket technology with the Aleister Crowley-led occult and group sex cult in the 30s.


6 posted on 04/19/2019 9:39:09 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Libloather

Just 27 months. She will be out in about 20 months, probably.


7 posted on 04/19/2019 9:56:00 PM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death by cultsther)
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To: Libloather

I wrote a thesis paper on the 19th Century religious movements in Upstate New York. Along the Erie Canal. Been dubbed ‘The Burned Over District.’ It was ground zero for the Evangelical 2nd Great Awakening led by the likes of Charles Finney...But it was also the founding grounds for Joseph Smith’s Mormonism before he and his polygamist following was forced out to Utah.

There must be something in the water...


8 posted on 04/19/2019 10:04:45 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: Paladin2

No. Hard no. Trust me....


9 posted on 04/19/2019 10:20:20 PM PDT by datura
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The water, no; the spirits around there yes


10 posted on 04/19/2019 10:26:48 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (May Jesus Christ be praised.)
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To: Jonty30

She promised not to appeal any sentence longer than that. She could get an even shorter stint.


11 posted on 04/19/2019 10:33:01 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

That you would group Finney with Joseph Smith is either telling of your ignorance or a screwed-up view of religion in general.


12 posted on 04/19/2019 10:38:28 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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if that b1tch is 40, it musta been rode hard, long and put away wet every night for the last ten or twenty years...
13 posted on 04/19/2019 10:42:34 PM PDT by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Charles Finney was a treasure of the Lord. Wish we had more of his like nowadays.


14 posted on 04/19/2019 10:46:04 PM PDT by Cedar
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To: Libloather

elites are falling like flies!


15 posted on 04/19/2019 10:59:52 PM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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To: Jonty30

To be rich and have a pussy pass....


16 posted on 04/19/2019 11:05:48 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SoConPubbie

My academic focus was largely on religious revivals and I was distinguishing between Finney and Smith. Hence why I noted that Smith was forced out. Conflicts are typical in highly spiritually-charged environments Good grief.


17 posted on 04/19/2019 11:07:49 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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Charles Finney was a treasure of the Lord. Wish we had more of his like nowadays.

Don’t see eye to eye to him with him on everything doctrinally, but a lover of Christ and great soul he was indeed.

18 posted on 04/19/2019 11:10:14 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Well thanks for clarifying.

Might want to review the clarity of your posts before you get upset when someone points out what could be a valid assumption because your post lacks clarity.


19 posted on 04/19/2019 11:11:17 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie

Hope you learned something new. It is a topic, era, and region that is very under-discussed in US history.


20 posted on 04/19/2019 11:17:09 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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