NEW YORK (NY)
New York Post
June 6, 2018
By Priscilla DeGregory and Lia Eustachewich
Lawyers for accused Nxivm sex cult leader Keith Raniere asked that he be sprung from jail on $10 million bond — all while ripping prosecutors as the “morality police” for filing sex-trafficking charges against him.
In new court papers, Raniere’s team of five lawyers argue that he’s neither a flight risk nor a danger to the community and should be released from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn.
He’s been held without bail since his arrest in April.
Raniere is accused of luring women through an offshoot of his self-help group Nxivm — pronounced “Nexium” — and blackmailing them into becoming his sex slaves.
Raniere and former “Smallville” actress Allison Mack — Raniere’s high-ranking “slave” who allegedly helped recruit women to a Nxivm side group called DOS — would brand their initials on their victims, prosecutors say.
Raniere’s attorneys, led by Marc Agnifilo, have maintained everything was consensual.
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