by Eastern District of New York Assistant Attorney Moira Penza on a wealth of charges that included racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, attempted sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, forced labor conspiracy, and wire fraud conspiracy.
As before, Noujaim’s storytelling is at once comprehensive and a bit diffuse, doubling back on moments in a manner that simultaneously reinforces vital points and renders the proceedings slightly repetitive. She employs a familiar array of formal devices, mixing archival videos, expressionistic graphics , and animated court-sketch sequences that are accompanied by audio recreations of testimony.
With Raniere behind bars for the rest of his life, the NXIVM saga would seem to be at a close. In its final passages, though,conveys that his legacy lives on both in the scars of those who survived the cult, and in staunch supporters such as Elliott, Michele Hatchette andactress Nicki Clyne, who persist in rallying to his cause.
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