According to court documents, expert cybercrime analysts working on the case of a convicted sex trafficker have revealed that evidence related to some of the most appalling charges against him was manipulated and placed on storage drives that were meant to be securely held by the FBI.
Keith Raniere, the founder of the NXIVM sex cult, is currently serving a 120-year prison sentence in Tuscon, Arizona. Prosecutors have accused him of luring women and girls into a sex cult under the guise of a self-improvement group. Raniere maintained an “inner circle” consisting of “slaves” and “masters,” with some women even being branded with his initials. It is alleged that he kept a domestic worker confined in a room for almost two years.
India Oxenberg, a survivor of the cult, shared on the FOX News True Crime Podcast that she was subjected to horrendous treatment, which included enduring “dehumanizing” experiences such as “repeated molestation and rape” before she and her mother were able to break free from the cult.
The FBI declined to comment when reached by Fox News Digital.
“In my 20 years serving as an FBI agent, I have never observed or claimed that an FBI employee tampered with evidence, digital or otherwise,” he wrote. “But in this case, I strongly believe the multiple, intentional alterations to the digital information I have discovered constitute evidence manipulation.”
