The Man Who Blew the Whistle On Alleged Sex Cult Inside NXIVM (HBO)

[Music] the story of alleged cult nexium has all the makings of a binge worthy docu-series a secretive leader who allegedly had women branded with his initials wealthy heiresses who helped finance the organization and a Hollywood actress accused of luring in fresh recruits leader Keith Ranieri and actress aliceandmac have been arrested and now face charges of sex trafficking and forced labor nexium denies it's a cult and says it's working with the authorities to demonstrate rhaenyra's innocence Ranieri and Mac has pleaded not guilty and are awaiting trial their lawyers wouldn't comment for this piece but one person is talking the obsessed former nexium employee who broke the story in the first place I'm trying to write a song that's appropriate for true Ranieri and this came to my mind [Music] because it is an American story this is Frank pilato the guy who originally revealed the alleged sex slave cult around Keith Ranieri though he lives in upstate New York he spends time on his properties in Key West so how much do you come out here on a boat the answer is every day I can so what else did you for fun right about renewing in 2007 par lotto was recommended to work for Ranieri by his consultant friends who both briefly did work for the group infamous political operatives Roger stone and Steve pigeon Carlotto is a real estate developer on paper but had built a reputation for relentlessness in local political fights he believes the Ranieri run nexium was a legit company under attack from bad people and it sent him a list of those people to seek and destroy here was what they wanted me to do what does this mean smashmouth 225,000 that was what they were willing to pay me for smashing various people why do they call it Smash Mouth because they wanted these people destroyed and it says here a disbarment 25k does that mean they'd pay you $25,000 if I did that if you got him disbarred correct whoa just a hearing will get you 15k so this is what they were up to discredit indict so if you doesn't know it right wow this is a quite a list but taking out enemies wasn't the only thing nexium wanted Prahlada to do when he was asked to help nexium get a loan he learned members and Seagram's Ayres Clare and Sarah Bronfman had lost a shocking amount of money in the commodities market he says Clare told him Ranieri had been making the trades so well why did you invest 65 million dollars and lose it all don't you think that's a little bit unusual and she said unfortunately my father Edgar Bronfman senior he wanted to thwart Keith's successful investment so he manipulated the entire commodities market in tandem with the quote unquote Illuminati what did you think when she told you that I suspected she was being defrauded then notice he was fired didn't give a reason but par lotto thinks it was because he questioned Ranieri by asking for receipts of the trades according to court documents the Bronfman's did lose 65 million in commodities trades and par lotta recovered millions in real estate investments for the sisters but in an act Prahlada sighs of betrayal they later said he took 1 million dollars which he claims was payment we were unable to reach the Bronfman's after multiple attempts for comment then the FBI indicted par lotto with the disputed million dollars a factor in just one in a string of charges dating back over a decade Carlotta refused a plea deal and says he's innocent and so began his war with nexium and that was when I had an awakening golly I had no idea of the depths of their dishonesty and then I said if they had done this to me and all of these other enemies that supposedly had cheated them they were also probably similarly innocent I turned in an instant and said this is more than a kooky group this is a crazy group of criminally insane group and it's not just Ranieri couldn't nexium say you're just a disgruntled employee with a axe to grind not only could they say it but they did say that and I think right well disgruntled no ex-employee yes ex yes a punishing axe I sharpened my axe okay Carlotto turned on nexium with the fury it had hired him to use against its enemies he carpet-bombed Ranieri and nexium with attacks on his website he also deployed the two other publications he co-owns art voice and the Niagara Falls reporter a tabloid he'd used in the past to wage war against the popular Niagara Falls boat tour part of my strategy was to mock Ranieri my photoshopped images of him I wrote I wrote fictional stories about him was to make him look ridiculous because sometimes that's necessary - and he wrote a lot so how many hours total do you think he spends on this how many hours are there in a year do you think you've spent a king out of year on us maybe some of Pearl autos practices our question of all he tries to confirm his scoops with multiple sources but he also posts the names and photos of the women who are allegedly nexium slaves tell me a little bit more about the decision to name them I mean that's that's pretty controversial even in newspapers now they don't name rape victims because they weren't exclusively victims because they were recruiting others to be victims Hulu ISM incredible pressure on these women to recruit other women into this sex slavery cult more than two years into his anti nexium campaign paar lotto revealed women were being branded in a secret ceremony the New York Times confirmed the story in October which led to a federal investigation when the New York Times came out that was the game changer because then I had validation for all the things that I had written until the time story came out what did your friends and colleagues say about your obsession I thought I was insane what would you tell them I got it right one more story there's something here and it has to be stopped nexium will never be the same but par lotto isn't overhead he went after me and I flipped him on his back and landed him in prison and that's Rios today as we're speaking here as inmate number five seven zero zero five - 177 he went to win and I went to win and he lost [Music]

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Length: 8min 34sec (514 seconds)

Published: Thu May 17 2018