Here’s some odd and ends from an old Artvoice article. Interestingly, they noted that the NXIVM lawsuit against Metroland was filed by John Bartolomei.

Speaking of Pigeon, the strategist-in-chief for Tom Golisano’s Responsible New York committee took a slew of locals up to Albany two weeks ago to hear the Dalai Lama speak, as guests of Clare and Sara Bronfman, heirs to the Seagrams liquor fortune. Among the guests were Niagara Falls developer Roger Trevino, Pigeon protege Gary Parenti, political financier Hormoz Mansouri, Niagara Falls Reporter editor Mike Hudson, and online political gossip-monger Joe Illuzzi.

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Pigeon himself has done “legal and political work” for to the Bronfmans, according to an April 2008 Buffalo News article about a Los Angeles housing development deal gone wrong that tied together Pigeon, the Bronfmans (or at least their money), the president of NXIVM, and local developer Frank Parlato.