NEW YORK—Closing arguments in the high-profile trial of Keith Raniere, the former leader of the secret society NXIVM, began on June 17, with a federal prosecutor telling jurors how the organization’s tactics “destroyed their victims’ sense of self.”
In a packed federal courtroom in Brooklyn, Assistant U.S. Attorney Moira Penza alluded to the prosecution’s May 7 opening statements, telling the jury of eight men and four women that Raniere was chiefly after “sex, money, power.”
