Relevance: Well, the sex cult story is the rabbit hole that has associations with The Cannibal Queen herself. That makes it pretty relevant. That along with those whacky, crazy Bronfman sisters and Nancy Saltzman being members of Slick Willy's Clinton's Global Initiatives sort of puts the pot of gold at the end of this rainbow. Add in the sex trafficking charges and I think we've established relevancy.

It's funny how life comes at you. I'd collected all this information on a member of Maggie Nxon's extended family, intending to post, but then didn't due to a pervasive laziness and wanting to carve out a few minutes of relaxation time between work and posting here. But then KAPOW! Like a speeding German Shepherd, my ankle got chomped on by an article I read this morning ... which led to a post on VOAT. Crap! Now I'm all fired up and going to get this down!

Here's the article. The source is Times Union, the only paper in the country that apparently still hires actual journalists (WHAT? THAT'S CRAZY!)

https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Attorney-general-probes-nonprofit-associated-with-12779437.php

Attorney general probes nonprofit associated with NXIVM

AG seeks records of Ethical Science Foundation and doctor tied to group

The state attorney general's office is investigating a nonprofit foundation associated with the NXIVM corporation that allegedly sponsored brain-activity and other human behavioral studies without any apparent oversight, according to court records.

The nonprofit Ethical Science Foundation was formed in 2007 by Clare W. Bronfman, an heiress of the Seagram Co. business empire who has described herself as the operations director of NXIVM. Bronfman, who owns a horse farm in Delanson, is listed in public records as the trustee and donor of the Ethical Science Foundation.

XIVM's supporters have insisted it is a self-help group focused on business and personal improvement.* [PERSONAL ASIDE: AND I'M A PINK RABBIT}***** NXIVM officials and associates have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and dispute any allegation that it is a cult.

Internal Revenue Service records indicate the Ethical Science Foundation acquired more than $145,000 worth of computers, medical equipment and brain-activity monitors several years ago. A 2015 IRS form filed by the nonprofit listed its "charitable activities" as "Tourettes study — studying the effects of a specific and innovative method has [sic] on individuals with Tourettes syndrome and obsessive compulsive disorder." ...

"ESF has funded the research of Dr. Brandon Porter, a physician who has conducted human subject research under the auspices of ESF without oversight by an Institutional Review Board (IRB) or human research committee in violation of Public Health Law," the attorney general's office wrote in support of its application for court intervention. In general, they added, "The failure to comply with human subject protections required by law is a gross violation of public policy." .

To make a long sordid story short, that nutso heiress founded a nonprofit in 2007 and financed Porter's ''experiments.'' While they told victims participants that they would help with Tourette's Syndrome, the video shown focused on brutality, rape, torture ... the usual stuff one sees when trying to regain mental health. The amazing thing is that NXIVM claimed the non-curable Tourette's had been cured!

NXIVM issued a statement on its website last October defending its practices following reports about Porter's experiment and the secret women's group that took part in branding rituals. The corporate statement noted the company's interest in research, saying: "NXIVM has documented an initial case study of ten individuals suffering from Tourette's syndrome, a neurological disease known to be incurable, who were able to radically reduce, and in some cases completely eradicate, their symptoms."

So I did a dumpster dive and found the website:

http://www.ethicalsciencefoundation.org/

And the Linked In page for Ethical Science Foundation:

https://imgur.com/a/4uuIoVP

Although it promises 4 employees, it must have been scrubbed because only Clare Bronfman's name appears if you click on that link. But what did catch my eye is the part about CLIFTON PARK, NY. I did a search for VOAT and CLIFTON PARK ... and it's here things get interesting. The search came up with this:

https://voat.co/v/pizzagate/2510784

It's a @argosciv posted entitled:

Root of Corruption - Bridge: NXIVM property/corporate distribution in Albany, NY & abroad

Here are the first lines:

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..

GAELEN? Did they say, "GAELEN"?

It's here the German Shepherd attacks. I'd run across that name when researching Maggie Nixon. I have a very wide circle of friends and not one is named Gaelen. So what are the chances that this name matches the name of someone in the Nixon extended family? It could be a coincidence, but is there something more? As stated above, I was all set to post on Gaelen or Galen or however you're spelling that name these days. Is this one of those trendy transsexual names that you don't have to change when you're fed your hormone blockers in your cereal at the age of 3? You be the judge.

When I did the initial dumpster dive re: Maggie Nixon, I decided to try her extended family. After all, if it was as big a rabbit hole as touted, then the rest of Agnes Nixon's children must play a part, no? So when I dd the search for Agnes Nixon's children, the name of Mary Nixon came up:

https://imgur.com/a/x5yVihE

It turned out that Mary's married name was Hiltbrand and the first place I saw it was in an article on a fundraiser for DISADVANTAGED KIDS and the FOSTER CARE SYSTEM. How unusual? >

http://www.mainlinetoday.com/Main-Line-Today/December-2009/Feels-Like-Home/

December 2009. Almost 200 people gathered at the Berwyn home of Mary Nixon Hiltbrand and her husband, David, for an afternoon of art and awareness to benefit Eddie’s House, which helps aged-out young adults make the transition from foster care to independent living. Lou Tilley, Lisa Thomas-Laury, Gretchen Burke, Linda Swain, Diane McGraw and other guests mingled among paintings and sculptures from three Delaware Valley artists displayed in the Hiltbrand barn. Program founder Sharon McGinley named the nonprofit after Eddie Lewis, who suffered severe trauma in Philadelphia’s foster care system. Lewis and All My Children creator Agnes Nixon were special guests at the event, which raised $30,000 for the organization.

Well, isn't that lovely? Momma Agnes was on hand. And unfortunately, Eddie seems to have died a year later:

http://www.phillytrib.com/news/ex-foster-care-youth-find-home-at-eddie-s-house/article_173a033d-a3a3-5298-ae00-c66ebff7af57.html

Philadelphian Sharon McGinley founded Eddie’s House, named after Eddie Lewis, one of the first 18-year-olds she met who had aged out of foster care. Lewis died in 2010 from kidney failure.

Now I'm sure the founder of this org didn't know that Lewis was that sick ... or take advantage of it. First, you find someone who became a cause cause celebre through the abuse suffered. You target him because he's now sick. Use him as a draw for money/donors and then a year later he dies and leaves you with $$$$ to spend and no one to question where that money is going. But that would be a very jaded view, something I've acquired over the last year. But let's go onward and not upward. The next thing I found was, more involvement IN TEEN'S LIVES! My, oh, my! Mary, you are a philanthropic wonder!

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20120721_Main_Line_teens_get_a_New_Leaf_to_hang_out.html

Main Line teens get a New Leaf to hang out

For as long as she can recall, Mary Nixon Hiltbrand has wanted to create a gathering place for teens and young adults on the Main Line.

In the spring, when the former Smith & Hawken store in Rosemont became available, she did.

"It just clicked," Hiltbrand said of the project. "The right people kept showing up at the right time."

Next month, after $175,000 worth of remodeling, the New Leaf Cafe will open on Montrose Avenue behind the Rosemont Square shopping center in Lower Merion Township.

Yeah, it just clicked! You know how that happens! You get an idea and the next thing you know, people crawl out of the woodwork and throw $175,000 at you so you can remodel!!! Yeah, me, neither ... but it's all part of this extraordinary life and this woman that really does seem obsessed with helping out children. I'm guessing it must have been one hell of an upbringing that brought the best out of her. Must have had an idyllic loving childhood, don't you think.

https://www.phillymag.com/articles/2007/06/08/legends-the-original-desperate-housewife/

That meant digging up some of the Main Line’s secrets — including several in her own family. “I did recognize a few things,” says Nixon’s daughter Mary Hiltbrand, today an artist in Gladwyne. “I got sober, and when I got sober, a lot of the characters started getting sober. Erica went to rehab after I did.” “My brother had an illness that she gave to one of her characters,” adds Cathy Chicos, Nixon’s eldest daughter, who also lives in Gladwyne. “I’m sure there were others.”

So she was an alcoholic! Well, there you go! A freakin- ex-alcoholic is exactly who you want around your impressionable kids!

Run out of room -- onto Part II.