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Categories: Interfor · Juval Aviv · Michael Sutton · Rick Ross

NXIVM on hook for more than $1.3 million in civil case

Published by Times Union on August 26, 2019

By Robert Gavin

Credit: US Government

ALBANY — A federal judge in New Jersey delivered an unwelcome birthday present to NXIVM leader Keith Raniere on Monday: an order demanding the organization pay more than $1.3 million to an investigative firm it hired to dig up dirt on a cult expert.

Senior U.S. District Judge Katharine S. Hayden ruled in favor of Interfor, a New York-based company that NXIVM recruited in 2004 to — among other tasks — investigate Rick Ross, leader of the Cult Education Institute, who NXIVM had sued the previous year.

The judge, who presided over a 2017 non-jury trial on the matter, ordered NXIVM to pay $1,360,157 to Interfor, which is headed by Juval Aviv, a former Israeli intelligence officer. The figure includes legal fees and other costs.

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Toni Natalie spent eight years with Keith Raniere, as his girlfriend and business partner. She watched as he  transformed himself from multi-level marketing guru into the cult leader known as Vanguard. When Toni finally left him, he threatened her: “I will see you dead or in jail.” He was half right.

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