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Seagram’s liquor heiress Clare Bronfman was sentenced to six years and nine months in prison on Wednesday for her role as the longtime financier of purported self-help group NXIVM, which was essentially a pyramid scheme with sex slaves.
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Federal prosecutors accused the Seagram’s heiress of committing wire fraud to make it appear that a victim was eligible for an investor visa, and of helping Raniere avoid paying taxes by “arranging to pay the monthly credit card bill using [a] dead person’s bank account,” according to court documents.
She also tried to discredit victims and “orchestrated abusive litigation” against people who spoke out, prosecutors wrote in a detention memo. Additionally, the government claimed Bronfman had schemed to get usernames and passwords from perceived enemies of NXIVM so the group could monitor their emails, including Bronfman’s father, Edgar Bronfman Sr., who was quoted in a 2003 Forbes article as saying, “I think it’s a cult.”
Bronfman pleaded guilty in April 2019 to conspiracy to conceal and harbor illegal aliens for financial gain and fraudulent use of identification. As part of her plea, she also agreed to forfeit $6 million based on the property used to facilitate the harboring charge.
She faced a maximum sentence of 25 years in prison. Her attorneys had asked the Clinton-appointed Judge Garaufis for a non-custodial sentence of three years of probation on her guilty pleas.
2- Gave her a break for not being directly involved in abusive behavior. Not that I agree with that, but that's the theory.
Federal sentencing guidelines are 27 months and the prosecutors asked for five years so the Clinton appointee you baseslessly chose to smear went above and beyond on both counts.
Federal sentencing guidelines are 27 months and the prosecutors asked for five years so the Clinton appointee you baseslessly chose to smear went above and beyond on both counts.
Max sentence was 25 years from what the article referenced. The article also mentioned that the judge was a Clinton appointee.
I also provided a real reason for a reduced sentence.
She will probably only serve a fraction of those 7 yrs, I would say no more than a year and she is back out.
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