FOUR former FBI agents have claimed that evidence within the NXIVM intercourse cult case was tampered with, in response to courtroom data.&
NXIVM chief Keith Raniere was caged for 120 years for sex trafficking, racketeering, possession of child pornography, and other crimes after victims got here forward to say they have been manipulated, managed, and sexually abused by him.&
Desperate Raniere is now appealing his conviction claiming evidence of child porn found on his pc was “manipulated” as a way to safe a conviction towards him.
He was convicted in courtroom in New York back in October 2020 after overwhelming proof referring to sex crimes was introduced towards him.
Brave victims gave emotional& testimony& about how they have been recruited into the cult believing it to be a self-help group before being abused by him.
The U.S. Solar previously revealed how Raniere claimed in a collection of handwritten letters from jail that his life was in peril from a billionaire media mogul and his violent intersex cellmate.
Last yr former FBI agent Richard Kiper informed The U.S. Sun he discovered what he believed to be proof tampering within the notorious case.
In a 42-page courtroom filing, Kiper stated agents appeared to have “manually altered the evidence.”
The primary finding, Kiper alleged, was that footage of a unadorned feminine have been placed on the arduous drive manually with “manipulated file creation dates” – to make it seem like the pictures have been taken when the female was under the age of consent.
Now, reviews from three more former FBI brokers and three civilian specialists, supporting Kiper’s claims, have been filed within the case.
Stacy Eldridge, a former FBI Senior Forensic Examiner, who served in the company for 10 years, stated in courtroom documents obtained by The U.S. Solar: “Certainly, information, folders, dates, and metadata on the exhausting drive [1B16] have been manipulated.
“The pictures on this case, together with the alleged contraband, have been planted on the exhausting drive.
“It is my skilled opinion that the digital evidence was extensively manipulated, and some of this manipulation, specifically relating to the CF card, was executed by an individual or persons inside the FBI.”
Mark Daniel Bowling, another former FBI Special Agent and Forensic Examiner, who served within the FBI for 20 years, added in the courtroom paperwork, that it was a “full technical certainty” that the proof was “manipulated” and “probably manufactured.”
Another former FBI agent Stephen Bunting stated he agreed with the findings.
The brand new specialists additionally allege members of the prosecution group have been concerned in the evidence tampering, in response to the courtroom filings.
They claim that the digital camera card, on which the kid porn pictures discovered on Raniere’s onerous drive allegedly came from, was handled by the prosecutors’ office (USAO) six months earlier than the photographs have been formally found.
Eldridge stated in her report: “In my ten years of experience on the FBI, I am unaware of a single case the place the USAO workplace handled digital evidence earlier than the FBI.
“I’m left with the question, why did the USAO workplace handle the CF Card [camera card] in September 2018 when it was solely an ‘unintentional’ discovery five months later that demonstrated the significance of this piece of proof?”
The FBI and the US Lawyer’s Workplace Japanese District of New York declined to comment on the newest claims when approached by The U.S. Solar.
However previously the US Lawyer’s Office has slammed the allegations as “frivolous.”
Raniere was convicted in courtroom again in 2020 when victims testified about being recruited into the cult, considering it was a self-help group, earlier than the leader’s sick abuse.
“I still have goals about you where I’m being punished by you for one thing trivial and I can’t converse up for worry of public shaming,” stated former NXIVM member turned& whistleblower Sarah Edmondson.
The courtroom heard how Raniere created a secret sorority within NXIVM referred to as DOS, the place female “slaves” turned over nude photographs and different compromising supplies that could possibly be used for blackmail if they tried to go away.
Prosecutors stated that the disgraced self-help guru – who was addressed as “Vanguard” by followers – additionally starved and forced a few of his victims to be branded “like cattle” together with his initials.
But despite his conviction, Raniere nonetheless has a loyal band of followers campaigning for his launch.
One among them, Suneel Chakravorty, his power-of-attorney stated: “We have now clear evidence that dangerous apples in the FBI and the DOJ have been involved in framing Keith Raniere for heinous crimes to safe a landmark conviction. All expenses have to be dismissed.&
“Separately,& an unbiased prosecutor needs to research the dangerous brokers who broke the regulation.”