3/26/2023 0 Comments Clare sente![]() “You’ve been under house arrest for two years, yet you have never stopped,” Bouchey said through tears. She claimed the harassment has continued even as the defendant was approaching sentencing. Ex-followers told the judge on Wednesday that for years, Bronfman has used her wealth to try to silence NXIVM defectors.īarbara Bouchey, a former Raniere girlfriend who worked as a financial planner for Bronfman before quitting the group, described how Bronfman used lawyers to threaten litigation and seek false criminal charges. ![]() But her lawyers had argued she deserved leniency because she had no direct involvement in the case’s most disturbing allegations against the 60-year-old Raniere.Īt trial where Rainere was found guilty last year, prosecutors told jurors his organization, NXIVM - pronounced NEHK-see-uhm - operated like a cult whose members called him “Vanguard.” To honor him, the group formed a secret sorority comprised of brainwashed female “slaves” who were branded with his initials and forced to have sex with him, the prosecutors said.īronfman had long been affiliated with NXIVM, giving away tens of million of dollars to bankroll Raniere and his program of intense self-improvement workshops that prosecutors labeled a pyramid scheme. illegally for unpaid “labor and services” and that she committed credit card fraud on behalf of Raniere. – 'Smallville' actress pleads guilty in sex-trafficking caseīronfman, 41, admitted in a guilty plea last year that she harbored someone who was living in the U.S.– Secretive group's leader charged with sex-trafficking.– Heiress pleads guilty in NXIVM sex slave case.Mr Hassett said: “Ms Hennessy is totally ashamed of her actions. The Probation Report reads that she was driven to steal effectively.” ![]() Solicitor for Ms Hennessy, Daragh Hassett said his client had used the money to pay for "domestic bills” and that she had lost her partner six years ago.Īfter reading a Probation Report, Judge Gabbett said: “It is a very sad story. Mr Stevenson, the court heard, was a single man and moved to Killaloe in east Clare from the UK around 30 years ago. ![]() In the case, Ms Hennessy made 22 separate payments totalling €3,011 with Mr Stevenson’s direct debit card. ![]() In response, Judge Gabbett said: “Isn’t that why it all happened? That there was no one monitoring of his own affairs.”ĭetective Jenks said Mr Stevenson knew he was dying when he provided gardai with a statement in January 2020 about the thefts. He said that the circumstances of the case “are sad adding that Mr Stevenson became a resident of the nursing home in December 2018 but didn’t have any visitors during his time there before his death on January 25, 2021. Detective Garda John Jenks told the court that the thefts only came to light in January 2021 after direct debit payments from Mr Stevenson’s bank account to the nursing home bounced “because there was no cash in the account”. ![]()
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