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[0. [Albany ]Times Union(ca. 2010): NXIVM is years into project "Rainbow Cultural Garden," ~ first-ever enrollee ~ Gaelen[3 yo] | + Associated names]:

https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Secret-mission-A-child-589818.php | https://archive.fo/KH2Wn

Article points of interest:

• Gaelen was the first child enrolled into NXIVM's "Rainbow Cultural Garden", at age 3
• It isn't clear where the child came from.
• Barbara Bouchey revealed that the boy came to the NXIVM associates around March 2007, shortly after his birth.
• Barbara Jeske, a high-ranking NXIVM student, declared that the boy's grandfather in Michigan gave up the boy after his daughter had died shortly after the child was born.

Article contents:

Secret mission: A child

NXIVM is years into project "Rainbow Cultural Garden," an intensive effort to raise potential

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By JAMES M. ODATO Capitol bureau Published 1:00 am, Sunday, July 25, 2010

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ALBANY -- The boy is 3 years old. He lives with a 40-year-old woman who is not his biological mother. And he is the first-ever enrollee in a unique educational project.

He is Gaelen, and he is being raised by Kristin Keeffe, a devotee of the secretive enterprise called NXIVM. It isn't clear where the child came from.

The boy has become part of a unique program begun by self-improvement organization NXIVM founder Keith Raniere called the "Rainbow Cultural Garden" aimed at helping youngsters master several languages. As a result, the child has been under the care of a number of different nannies, some from foreign nations, each using one of five different languages.

Barbara Bouchey, who worked within NXIVM's intellectual inner circle for nine years, handled financial matters for the organization's biggest benefactors, Seagrams heiresses Clare and Sara Bronfman. In an interview last week, Bouchey revealed that the boy came to the NXIVM associates around March 2007, shortly after his birth.

Barbara Jeske, a high-ranking NXIVM student, Bouchey recalled, declared that the boy's grandfather in Michigan gave up the boy after his daughter had died shortly after the child was born. Jeske and Keeffe traveled to the Ann Arbor, Mich., area to get the boy two days later and brought back the child to live with Jeske, Bouchey said. Yet, after about two months he was transferred from Jeske's home in Clifton Park to Keeffe's residence a short distance away but much closer to Raniere.

[1. https:// Albany Times Union - NXIVM 'sex lair' in Halfmoon targeted in FBI raid | https://archive.fo/xWg3P]:

NXIVM 'sex lair' in Halfmoon targeted in FBI raid

Authorities say woman was a victim of sex trafficking at the home

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^{By Brendan J. Lyons Updated 7:09 am, Friday, April 6, 2018}

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A Halfmoon townhouse raided by the FBI last week was dubbed "The Library" by NXIVM leader Keith Raniere, who had allegedly used the residence for years as his private sex lair, according to court records and interviews with people familiar with the residence.

The nondescript townhouse on Hale Drive, in the Knox Woods residential development, is a short walk from the small residence where Raniere lived for more than 15 years before he abruptly flew to Mexico last fall — after he became the target of an intensive federal criminal investigation.

The Hale Drive residence, which has a hot tub and a large bed on the second floor, was searched by the FBI around the same time the nearby residence of NXIVM co-founder Nancy Salzman was raided on March 27. Property records indicate the Hale Drive residence has been owned since 2004 by a now-inactive corporation, Executive Housing & Properties, which lists Salzman as its chief executive officer. The corporation's address, 455 New Karner Road in Albany, is also the location of NXIVM's headquarters.

The FBI's searches took place two days after Raniere, the leader of NXIVM, was arrested by Mexican federal police at a $10,000-a-week villa in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Raniere was with some of his most devoted female followers when he was taken into custody. Federal agents later brought Raniere to a federal courthouse in Fort Worth, Texas, where he appeared on a criminal complaint charging him with sex trafficking and conspiracy to commit forced labor.~~

~~In the federal criminal complaint filed against Raniere, prosecutors said the residence known as the Library is where Raniere, 57, repeatedly had sex with an unidentified actress in her 30s. Raniere is accused of illegally coercing the woman into becoming part of a secretive slave-master sex club associated with NXIVM.

The federal criminal complaint alleges that Raniere formed the group in which numerous women said they were lured into joining the club by other female members of NXIVM. They were required to provide some sort of collateral — such as nude photographs or damning information about their pasts — that leaders of the club threatened would be released if they failed to follow instructions or tried to leave the group, authorities said.

Some of the women have said they were also pressured to have sex with Raniere, while others told federal authorities that a female doctor associated with NXIVM, Danielle Roberts, used a cauterizing iron to brand them with a design on their lower abdomen that contained the initials of Raniere and Allison Mack, an actress and NXIVM associate who is listed in the complaint as an unnamed co-conspirator.

The Hale Drive townhouse is where federal authorities say the unidentified actress, who is listed as "Jane Doe 1" in the criminal complaint, became a victim of sex trafficking and forced labor. The actress lived in Brooklyn during the time she was an allegedly a victim of Raniere's — which is part of the reason the case is being pursued by the U.S. Attorney's office in the Eastern District of New York, which includes the borough.

The complaint alleges Mack, who is identified only as "Co-Conspirator 1," recruited the actress to join the secret club in February 2016, including making her provide "collateral" that consisted of "letters detailing false and highly damning accusations against her family members."

According to an FBI affidavit, the actress was required to provide more collateral, including turning over her credit card numbers to Mack. The actress also was ordered by Mack to travel to Halfmoon every week, and remain celibate for six months.

During one of her trips to Halfmoon, the actress said Mack instructed her to meet Raniere in the middle of the night near his residence. He allegedly instructed the actress to remove her clothing, placed a blindfold over her eyes and drove her around. Once he stopped the vehicle, they walked through some woods to a shack where the actress said she was tied to a table and forced to engage in sex with an unidentified person who was in the room with Raniere.

In the months that followed, according to an FBI affidavit, Raniere had repeated sexual contact with the actress at the Hale Drive townhouse.~~

[2. wiki: Allison Mack]:

Legal issues

In 2010, Mack was reported to have been recruited to the Vancouver chapter of the alleged cult NXIVM along with her Smallville co-star Kristin Kreuk.[16] In a 2003 article from Forbes, advocates of NXIVM portrayed it as an organization focused on inspirational executive coaching, "like a practical M.B.A.," while detractors accused the founder Keith Raniere of running "a cult-like program aimed at breaking down his subjects psychologically."[17] The co-founder of the Vancouver chapter reported in a 2017 The New York Times exposé that she had been branded in an initiation ceremony under the supervision of a top NXIVM official.[18]

Mack was arrested by the FBI in Brooklyn on April 20, 2018, on charges of sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy and forced labor conspiracy. According to prosecutors, Mack, who ranked directly below Raniere in a pyramid scheme called DOS, recruited female slaves for him, and forced women to have sex with him under threat of having damaging information about them released, in exchange for what were described as "financial and other benefits".[19] She faces 15 years-to-life in prison.

[3. [2]: ref 16: http://www.macleans.ca/economy/business/how-to-lose-100-million/ | https://archive.is/zJEj2]

[4. wiki: Kristin Kreuk]

[5. [4]: ref 35: https://globalnews.ca/news/4115037/kristen-kreuk-allison-mack-sex-trafficking-cult/ | https://archive.is/VWgCX]

[6. https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Actress-Allison-Mack-charged-in-NXIVM-sex-12851691.php | https://archive.fo/3nFzE]

[7. Root of Corruption - Part 14: Wizards & Warlocks: comment 7/10]:

[10. https://www.chron.com - Records show Colgan flights had been fatality free | https://archive.is/5g7F ]:

Records show Colgan flights had been fatality free

MARK BABINECK and BILL HENSEL JR., Copyright 2009 Houston Chronicle

^{Published 06:30 a.m., Friday, February 13, 2009}>>>~~According to the NTSB, though, two Colgan crewmembers were killed in August 2003 when their otherwise empty plane crashed because of apparent mechanical failure after taking off from Hyannis, Mass. They were moving the aircraft to Albany, N.Y.

[11. wiki: Colgan Air Flight 9446]