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One and a half years ago, in April 2019, Clare Bronfman pleaded guilty to concealing and harbouring an illegal alien for financial gain and fraudulent use of identification, which included forfeiting $6 million (from her estimated $200 million net worth).
Yesterday, Bronfman was sentenced to 81 months in prison, a $500,000 fine and a restitution of $96,605 paid to victim “Jane Doe 12” (the Mexican woman she recruited but never paid the salary she promised). This is higher than the 5 years asked for by the prosecutors.

Bronfman was finally taken into custody.
Personally I expect that she will be released very soon. Not because President Donald will pardon her, but because the 41-year-old is supposedly in “danger” of the (far from lethal) coronavirus (this year’s strain can’t be COVID-19)...
And she will of course appeal the judgement (but I don’t think that stands much of chance besides possibly lowering the time she has been sentenced to by a couple of months)!

Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis explained that Clare had “used her incredible wealth and attempted to use her social status and connections not only to support Nxivm’s work, but also as a means of intimidating, threatening, and exacting revenge upon individuals who dared to challenge its dogma”.

Keith Raniere has already been found guilty of racketeering and sex-trafficking in June 2019; he faces up to life in prison, sentencing is scheduled for 27 October: https://www.vulture.com/2020/09/clare-br...-case.html