Why Do Some NXIVM Members Still Defend Keith Raniere After Everything?

True Crime Today | Daily True Crime News & Interviews · May 27, 2026 · 19m

The people best trained to recognize what NXIVM was doing were the people Keith Raniere reportedly made sure never got inside the organization. Licensed therapists were kept out. That wasn’t an accident.NXIVM’s recruitment model was built on a framework Raniere refined after his first MLM, Consumers’ Buyline, was shut down as a pyramid scheme by the New York attorney general in 1996. The courses cost thousands and were structured so each one led to the next. The colored-sash hierarchy rewarded recruitment. Doubt about the methods was reframed as a personal failing — a limiting belief to be…