Supreme Court declines to hear convicted sex cult leader Keith Raniere’s appeal 

The Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up an appeal from Keith Raniere challenging his conviction on racketeering and sex-trafficking charges in connection with his leadership of the NXIVM sex cult.  

The decision leaves in place an October ruling from a federal appeals court panel that upheld the verdict and a decades-long prison sentence that was handed down in 2020.   

A federal jury in New York found Raniere guilty on seven counts in June 2019, following a six-week trial that centered on allegations that he operated the secretive group as a criminal enterprise that engaged in forced labor, as well as the exploitation and abuse of young girls. 

Raniere founded NXIVM in Albany, N.Y., in the early 2000s as a purported self-help organization that offered expensive workshops based on his teachings in centers across the U.S., Canada and........

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