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NXIVM: Episode 10: Jack Levy and Edgar Boone, Early Mexican NXIVM origins, Cybernetics, and Land Development · The Dustlight Archives

• 0:01
  SPEAKER_01: And now we head back to the place where this story began.
• 0:05
  SPEAKER_01: Where Manuela, the maid with a last name nobody bothers to learn, was murdered by people too powerful to face consequences, and disposed of in the cold desert night like so many others before her and after.
• 0:20
  SPEAKER_01: Roberto Bellano's brilliant final novel, 2666, has a section, its longest section in an already massive book, called The Part About the Crimes.
• 0:32
  SPEAKER_01: If you've spent enough time around these parapolitical circles, you may have heard of it.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_01: It takes place in the border city of Santa Teresa, a very lightly fictionalized version of Ciudad Waraz.
• 0:45
  SPEAKER_01: And as you read through it, the main story is stopped every two or three pages in order to recount another story of another woman violently murdered.
• 0:54
  SPEAKER_01: It presents each new horror in cold clinical fashion, oftentimes offers either no resolution or an unsatisfying resolution before going back to the story.
• 1:06
  SPEAKER_01: It creates a sense of setting unparalleled in most other books because it lets you see the place from the vantage point of those who have experienced what it most accurately is.
• 1:17
  SPEAKER_01: And just like the citizens of this small border town, and just like the people who live there, you find yourself becoming at first disgusted and eventually numb to the constant onslaught of the worst things humanity has to offer.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_01: And this is no accident.
• 1:33
  SPEAKER_01: That numbness you feel, both in the book and in the world you live in, is by design.
• 1:39
  SPEAKER_01: The story of the Maid Man Whela I told you in the prologue could be one of the dozens of stories recounted in that section of 2666.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_01: And when I read it, that novel immediately came to mind.
• 1:52
  SPEAKER_01: As we head down south of the border, there may be other things that evoke the feeling of that novel.
• 1:58
  SPEAKER_01: But it's important to remember that this is not exclusive to Mexico by any means.
• 2:03
  SPEAKER_01: Whether it's Eastern Europe, as we covered in our episode on Elizabeth Oxenberg, or South Africa with its long history of degradation and brutality, or any place you currently live in, if you dig just a little bit under the surface, you will find seemingly endless pain and suffering, experienced disproportionately by the poor or disenfranchised, and experienced disproportionately by the women within that.
• 2:31
  SPEAKER_01: Most of it has never been accounted for, and justice has never been served on those responsible.
• 2:38
  SPEAKER_01: We are going to talk about some of the idiosyncrasies of Mexico specifically in this next few episodes, but it's important to remember that while the ugliness might manifest in different flavors or in slightly different contexts, that at the heart of it, this is not a story about Mexico, but a story about everywhere in the world.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_01: Because there is nowhere you can go where the volume of the spirits of those buried with no last name in an unmarked grave isn't so loud as to be deafening if you just listen to the screaming.
• 3:14
  SPEAKER_01: Welcome to the Dust Light Archives.
• 4:15
  SPEAKER_01: But understanding that theoretically and trying to understand what all of this looks like in practice are two separate things.
• 4:24
  SPEAKER_01: Who drew these people together?
• 4:26
  SPEAKER_01: Who made Rainier the face and Nancy Salzman the manager?
• 4:30
  SPEAKER_01: At some point, somebody had to actually put this together.
• 4:34
  SPEAKER_01: And as we head into this final section on Mexico, only one family fully makes sense to me in that role, and that is the Kaffritz family.
• 4:43
  SPEAKER_01: We have their connections to the Manson family through Charlene Kaffritz and the intimation that this family has a multi-generational connection to two very similar cults.
• 4:54
  SPEAKER_01: The Kaffritz family has confirmed access to the Bromfmans and the Oxenbergs prior to Nexium even existing.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_01: Pamela Kafritz is the earliest person from this elite family that can be placed in this orbit, operating exoterically as Keith's romantic partner and right hand as early as the late 1980s, right as he began Consumers By Line Incorporated.
• 5:19
  SPEAKER_01: The sort of proto-Nedium that seems to operate as a training ground or practice run for things to come.
• 5:29
  SPEAKER_01: Given neurolinguistic programming's data JSON connections, whether that's through Richard Bandler and John Grinder, the former being Nancy's mentor, I don't think it's much of a stretch to say Kaffritz being in the same geographic area and sharing the same interests may have been who actually recruited Nancy.
• 5:49
  SPEAKER_01: Pamela Kaffritz would have been right at the initial meetings where Edgar Boone and Jack Levy would have been recruited.
• 5:55
  SPEAKER_01: And finally, the Kaffritz family sits right at the intersection between real estate and international espionage, where Edgar Boone and Jack Levy, the people who initially bring Executive Success Program or ESP to Mexico in the year 2006.
• 6:14
  SPEAKER_01: We will explore more of that last assertion in a second, but I want to be clear.
• 6:19
  SPEAKER_01: I think this was a multi-layered story with a lot of moving parts.
• 6:23
  SPEAKER_01: But if I'm looking for the spark that set it all in motion, who got all our major players involved in three years between 2000 and 2003, and who was intimately involved a decade earlier, the only answer that makes sense to me is the Kafritz family.
• 6:41
  SPEAKER_01: Before we look at the ground level operations in Monterey, understand that our two subjects today, Edgar Boone and Jack Levy, did not operate in a vacuum.
• 6:51
  SPEAKER_01: They were the Mexican endpoint of a circuit that was wired in DC and the US Ivy League decades earlier.
• 6:59
  SPEAKER_01: Most stories about Nexium ignore Mexico almost completely, with maybe passing references to Emiliano Salinas, trafficked Mexican immigrants, and the same evil genius hypnotizes one of the highest levels of aristocracy narrative that also plagues explanations of the Bronfman or Oxburg involv Oxenberg involvement.
• 7:22
  SPEAKER_01: In some cases, they take this logic to its absolutely absurd conclusion, relying on a total ignorance of Mexican politics, and claim Rainier almost took over Mexico and turned Nexium into a geopolitical state under his whim.
• 7:38
  SPEAKER_01: Even if they eskew the worst hyperbole, Mexico tends to function narratively as Nexium expanding internationally sometime late in its existence, and being the site of Keith Rainier's eventual flight and arrest once legal authorities began to bear down on the organization.
• 7:57
  SPEAKER_01: The truth is that the Mexican branch of Nexium was being created and grown by 2001 at the latest.
• 8:04
  SPEAKER_01: Mexican Nexium existed basically concurrently with U.S.
• 8:08
  SPEAKER_01: Nexium for damn near the entire timeline.
• 8:12
  SPEAKER_01: Raniri was arrested by the Mexican Federal Police and brought to San Antonio, Texas, before being moved to Albany to stand trial.
• 8:21
  SPEAKER_01: I mentioned this early on in the series, but it's probably worth repeating it now.
• 8:25
  SPEAKER_01: Keith Rainier was not extradited, as you would expect in this situation.
• 8:30
  SPEAKER_01: He was actually deported for an immigration violation, and American authorities were waiting to detain him across the border.
• 8:39
  SPEAKER_01: Considering he was an international fugitive at the time, and he was arrested in an armed raid on his compound, the actual charge being a minor visa violation comes across as odd.
• 8:51
  SPEAKER_01: The most obvious reason they would choose to do this is to speed up the process for getting him to his Albany trial and to involve Mexico in as little of the discovery and evidence process as possible.
• 9:04
  SPEAKER_01: Given that this organization involved several Mexican elites running criminal schemes, as we shall see, it's hard to read it as anything other than a cover-up.
• 9:14
  SPEAKER_01: One that was largely successful, as none of them would ever go to trial, be charged with anything, or even have their names mentioned in most media reports.
• 9:26
  SPEAKER_01: So if we're going to make sense of what was going on in Mexico, it's probably worth beginning with Edgar Boone Jr., the Mexican oligarch who has the earliest documented interaction with Nexium back in September of the year 2000.
• 9:42
  SPEAKER_01: He is a member of the Lebanese Mexican diaspora, and his parents immigrated at some point in the late 19 or early 20th century.
• 9:53
  SPEAKER_01: We don't know much about them except for the fact that they were real estate titans who owned land in some of the wealthiest areas of Mexico by the time Edgar was born.
• 10:03
  SPEAKER_01: One problem we are going to run into as we head into this part of our investigation is that the Mexican elite have the ability to scrub family records and history a lot more successfully than families in the US or Canada.
• 10:16
  SPEAKER_01: A lot of this just comes down to the fact that the US or Canada, for a lot of reasons, many of them self-serving, have at least the illusion of transparency built into their customs and institutions.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_01: Take just one example.
• 10:31
  SPEAKER_01: A notary public is a low-level job in the U.S.
• 10:34
  SPEAKER_01: Almost anybody can apply for it.
• 10:36
  SPEAKER_01: And when they legally notarize something, it enters state records, which are available to varying levels of public scrutiny specific document in question.
• 10:46
  SPEAKER_01: In Mexico, a notary public is a state-sanctioned lifetime employee who comes almost exclusively from dynastic families.
• 10:56
  SPEAKER_01: Papers themselves are not publicly searchable, and they exist exclusively in the records of the notary public that executed the act.
• 11:04
  SPEAKER_01: While being careful not to fall into the sort of propaganda that convinces most Americans our country is free and other countries are not, there are distinct differences in process that can make research on a topic easier or harder.
• 11:21
  SPEAKER_01: Also, it is worth pointing out that the more open corruption we see in some areas of Mexican life is definitely not divorced from American geopolitics or industry.
• 11:32
  SPEAKER_01: And let's not forget that a ton of the Mexican ruling class is educated in U.S.
• 11:37
  SPEAKER_01: Ivy League universities.
• 11:40
  SPEAKER_01: Anyways, this difference between how the notary public functions is just one example of the differences a person will encounter researching this stuff.
• 11:49
  SPEAKER_01: And I may bring up some more as we progress with this specific arc.
• 12:12
  SPEAKER_01: This is a fair assumption to make because he lived in the town of San Pedro Garza Garcia, which is a wealthy enclave, really only available to some of the higher echelons of the Mexican ruling class.
• 12:27
  SPEAKER_01: We also can be pretty positive he was a member of the very prestigious invite-only entrepreneurs organization out of MIT.
• 12:37
  SPEAKER_01: The Entrepreneurs Organization, originally known as the Young Entrepreneurs Organization, until the people in the club began to age, was first created in 1987 as a four-day corporate retreat for entrepreneurs under 40 years old making over a million dollars a year.
• 12:58
  SPEAKER_01: It would eventually be bracketed into a three-tiered ecosystem, including the World Entrepreneurs Organization for those making over$50 million, and the Entrepreneurs Organization Accelerator for people making$250,000 to a million dollars.
• 13:17
  SPEAKER_01: The ecosystem shared a lot in common with Nexium.
• 13:21
  SPEAKER_01: And one of those things would be an interest in shared blackmail amongst groups of elites, keeping everybody in line with their class interests under threat of mutually assured destruction.
• 13:32
  SPEAKER_01: They would have these highly emotional small group conferences where nobody was ever allowed to just give advice.
• 13:39
  SPEAKER_01: They had to take an example from their own business or personal history and use it as an example to compare with another person's problem.
• 13:49
  SPEAKER_01: What this means functionally is that you are sharing what sorts of financial crimes you may have committed, what sort of interpersonal hurt you may have caused those close to you, what your parents, who are also powerful people, are like, which of your kids is a fail son, and which one you hope to hand your company over to as just a few examples.
• 14:12
  SPEAKER_01: One reason it eventually split into three tiers is because it's too risky to engage in this sort of psychological behavior with people too far outside your class.
• 14:23
  SPEAKER_01: Obviously, a guy with a hundred million dollar net worth sharing these things with somebody who has a$5 million net worth creates a power dynamic.
• 14:32
  SPEAKER_01: The wealthier man is not going to be interested in.
• 14:36
  SPEAKER_01: The entrepreneurs organization also had an interest in cybernetics.
• 14:42
  SPEAKER_01: If you remember, back in the episode on neurolinguistic programming, we touched on how cybernetics is also an interest in this field.
• 14:52
  SPEAKER_01: In fact, Nancy Salzman's mentor, Richard Bandler, and his partner John Grinder met at a cybernetics conference.
• 15:02
  SPEAKER_01: This really is not so strange when you think about it, because cybernetics is one of the foundational paradigms that the ruling class uses to study and control the modern world.
• 15:14
  SPEAKER_01: Strictly speaking, cybernetics is the study of how a closed loop system functions and how to use feedback, positive or negative, to control it.
• 15:24
  SPEAKER_01: One obvious metaphor that often gets used to explain cybernetics in simple terms is the thermostat.
• 15:31
  SPEAKER_01: A thermostat controls the temperature of the room, which is a closed loop system.
• 15:37
  SPEAKER_01: It is aiming for a certain temperature, and when it gets too hot, the system uses negative feedback to cool down the room, and when it gets too cool, it uses positive feedback to heat up the room.
• 15:50
  SPEAKER_01: Taken to its obvious conclusion, this system can be used to control mechanical interfaces, biology, nature, or any other number of things.
• 16:00
  SPEAKER_01: It's where the lines between a business, cult, state propaganda, behavior modification, and algorithmic manipulation all start to blur together until the lines between each are hard parse.
• 16:15
  SPEAKER_01: It's why Apple can use corrupted versions of malice struggle sessions as part of their business policy, and why Facebook knows exactly what mixture of negative and positive feedback to give you in order to make you come back as quickly as possible.
• 16:32
  SPEAKER_01: Maybe this is obvious to you.
• 16:35
  SPEAKER_01: I don't know, but I want to make sure to have established this foundation.
• 16:39
  SPEAKER_01: And also, I think that while many of us intuitively understand these things, the naming them is powerful, and the name doesn't get used enough.
• 16:49
  SPEAKER_01: That name is Cybernetics.
• 16:51
  SPEAKER_01: But heading back to the entrepreneurs organization, Mexican records on some of these people are so bad that whether he was in the group and when he joined it rely on first hand testimony and logical inferences.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_01: First of all, in the late 90s he would have met all of the qualifications to be in the group.
• 17:17
  SPEAKER_01: And this was a fairly regular practice for elite Mexican families.
• 17:22
  SPEAKER_01: Second of all, Cameron Harold, the former CEO of 1-800 Got Junk, if you've ever seen those infomercials or signs, has said he spent three years with Edgar Boone in the Entrepreneurs Organization from 2007 to 2010.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_01: Thirdly, after hooking up with ESP in Albany in 2000, he brings it down to Mexico for a conference at Planetario Alpha, a cultural landmark that includes the Garzas, the Sadas, and several other powerful Mexican families.
• 17:59
  SPEAKER_01: And this is a place you can't use without pre-established credibility.
• 18:06
  SPEAKER_01: Credibility he could have from being established in the entrepreneurs organization.
• 18:12
  SPEAKER_01: Fourthly, and I think this is the real smoking gun here, the entrepreneurs organization is very exclusive in invite-only.
• 18:21
  SPEAKER_01: And it's really hard to imagine a world where he gets an invite after already being associated with Nexium, which means he would have had to have been in it before.
• 18:32
  SPEAKER_01: But after the presentation, the Mexican elite, ushered in by Boone at a presentation given in a venue owned by the Sada family, jump on board and start getting shipped up to Albany for sessions.
• 18:47
  SPEAKER_01: One important thing to remember is whether it was the entrepreneurs' organization or more broadly the Ivy League education these people would indoctrinate their children with.
• 18:58
  SPEAKER_01: Culturally, there was already a lot of groundwork laid for the idea of pushing your kid into weird exclusive societies in order to give them the credentials necessary to be the next dynastic generation.
• 19:13
  SPEAKER_01: In the US, much of Nexium and its coursework was presented as a sort of new agey self-help seminar for the mobile or middle class.
• 19:23
  SPEAKER_01: But in Mexico, it had more of a focus on business management and leadership conferences, oftentimes for many of the most powerful families.
• 19:33
  SPEAKER_01: Now, we've spent a lot of time talking about the involvement of incredibly powerful US and Canadian families in Nexium, so I don't want to overstate it as this very clear-cut delineation, but there is a subtle difference that I think is worth exploring.
• 19:52
  SPEAKER_01: When it comes to the Bronfmans or Oxenbergs or even the Kaffrits family, Nexium's actual programs, their teachings and classes seem almost tangential to any utility these families are getting out of the cult.
• 20:07
  SPEAKER_01: In the United States, Nexium's actual classes and programs are for the Rubes.
• 20:13
  SPEAKER_01: They're for the actors like Alice and Mac, and the strivers from the upper middle class looking to elevate their status.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_01: They exist to harvest blackmail, take in money, test behavior modification, and obfuscate money laundering that is going on.
• 20:30
  SPEAKER_01: Mexico, on the other hand, and the families involved seem to actually have more use for the program itself.
• 20:38
  SPEAKER_01: There are several reasons for this.
• 20:41
  SPEAKER_01: One I touched on earlier to a degree is that Mexico is still developing into its relatively new economic system that really only took on its current form in the 90s.
• 20:52
  SPEAKER_01: The infrastructure is still in the process of being fully developed.
• 20:56
  SPEAKER_01: It's the same reason their ruling class oftentimes comes to U.S.
• 21:00
  SPEAKER_01: Ivy leagues instead of moving through some Mexican equivalent.
• 21:04
  SPEAKER_01: Coming out of the economic shifts of the 1990s, the Mexican ruling class was navigating a rapidly changing technocratic landscape.
• 21:14
  SPEAKER_01: They needed an institutional binding mechanism to align the next generation of dynastic heirs across corporate and political lines.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_01: The PRI political party machinery, or the Catholic Church, were old technologies that needed an upgrade for the modern hypercapitalist landscape.
• 21:34
  SPEAKER_01: In Mexico, ESP didn't function as a new age cult.
• 21:38
  SPEAKER_01: It functioned like modern Freemasonry.
• 21:41
  SPEAKER_01: It was a secret society designed to forge class cohesion, standardize management protocols, and weld the heirs of northern industrial capital to the DC aligned political technocracy.
• 21:55
  SPEAKER_01: Between 2000 and 2002, Edgar Boone gets his brother O.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_01: Omar involved in spearheading this new ESP program, and he meets a real estate tycoon named Jack Levy.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_01: If the Boons provide the licensing and the original connection to Nexium, Jack Levy begins to provide the actual physical infrastructure.
• 22:28
  SPEAKER_01: Now, Jack Levy's full name is Jack Levy Hussen.
• 22:33
  SPEAKER_01: He is a very young, wealthy property developer in his 20s, and we know basically nothing about him prior to 2002.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_01: We can surmise, based on the surname Levy Hussen, that he comes from the Sephardic Jewish diaspora that populate the region of Guadalajara where he lives.
• 22:53
  SPEAKER_01: They originally migrated to Mexico in the early 1900s, during the fall of the Ottoman Empire, from places like Aleppo or Damascus, and many made their living through textiles, early urban land acquisition, and cross-border capital liquidity.
• 23:10
  SPEAKER_01: Culturally, they are deeply insular, and unlike other Jewish diaspora, who brought ideologies like socialism or Zionism with them, the Sephardic Jews in the area were known for being very pragmatic as opposed to idealists.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_01: And to be clear, this is not me crypto Jew hunting here.
• 23:30
  SPEAKER_01: Information on so many of these people, foundational to the Mexican branch of Nexium, is so sparse that I am laying out whatever I can find in order to give us any context at all for where these people come from and the context under which they emerge.
• 23:47
  SPEAKER_01: Another way we can give ourselves some context is to look at this spatially and to kind of understand the different regions of Mexico from which these people emerge.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_01: There is a sort of triangle of major hubs throughout Mexico that will be important to our story.
• 24:05
  SPEAKER_01: There is Monterey, where Edgar and Omar Boone are from, and which is in the north of Mexico, and about 150 miles from the U.S.
• 24:14
  SPEAKER_01: border.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_01: It's the gateway through which executive success programs originally enters Mexico, and its culture is very corporatized and industrial.
• 24:26
  SPEAKER_01: Jack Levy is from Guadalajara, which is south and to the west of Monterey.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_01: And it's kind of like a Mexican Silicon Valley.
• 24:35
  SPEAKER_01: It is defined by high-density real estate, tech manufacturing, and deeply insulated private elite networks.
• 24:44
  SPEAKER_01: Then to the east of Guadalajara, there is Mexico City, where we spent most of our prologue with the Salinas family.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_01: It's the capital and imperial core of Mexico, the center of state power, where the PRI and the PAN, Mexico's major political parties and Mexican intelligence are all situated.
• 25:09
  SPEAKER_01: And just a small note, the PRI and PAN are in some ways separate political parties, but also by the 2000s, they've more or less morphed into sort of one technocratic ruling class, uh, in a way that I think could broadly be comparable to the Democrats and the Republicans, but they're much more closely aligned even than the Democrats and the Republicans are.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_01: So, anyways, Jack Levy first appears in the public record at 24 years old as the CEO and founder of the financial firm Grupo VEQ.
• 25:57
  SPEAKER_01: They specialize in buying and developing real estate, funding projects like high-density vertical residential towers catering to the ultra-wealthy, commercial and high-value residential properties that are tied to cross-border trade networks, and private coastal enclaves.
• 26:16
  SPEAKER_01: These would be almost exclusively the physical spaces ESP and Nexium would operate out of in Mexico.
• 26:24
  SPEAKER_01: In fact, it's one of these properties Keith Rainier will eventually be arrested in by Mexican Federal Police in 2018.
• 26:34
  SPEAKER_01: One thing that I find wild to wrap my mind around is how tied in this guy must be and how deep his dynastic line must go.
• 26:43
  SPEAKER_01: When I think about the amount of liquid capital needed to start a business like this at such a young age, and the amount of connections he would need to actually build these sorts of properties all across Mexico, especially the high-rises, which have Byzantine permit systems that are notoriously difficult and expensive to navigate and require permissions from a whole slew of powerful local people while actively fighting deep-rooted Catholic neighborhood associations in order to begin construction.
• 27:17
  SPEAKER_01: After doing quite a bit of research on Mexico, I should be used to it, but the fact that even basic information, like who his parents are, is locked down in some safe held by a multi-generational member of Mexico's ruling class is still crazy to me.
• 27:34
  SPEAKER_01: His official story is that he is a young, hardworking entrepreneur who saw an opportunity and pulled himself up by his bootstraps, applied for loans, and started developing property.
• 27:49
  SPEAKER_01: This is an absolutely ridiculous story, and in no world is this possible, much less true.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_01: So by 2002, the Boone Brothers and Levy have started building the infrastructure for Mexican Nexium to operate at scale.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_01: Emiliano Salinas officially becomes a part of the cult and offers the ability to scale up pretty massively around 2003.
• 28:15
  SPEAKER_01: And that's where most stories place his involvement.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_01: It makes a lot of sense to me that the Boons and Jack Levy are the bridge between Albany and Mexico City, because they would have had closer ties.
• 28:27
  SPEAKER_01: The timeline is fairly solid, and it all scans pretty well.
• 28:32
  SPEAKER_01: If I take any issue with this story, it is with the idea that Emiliano Salinas was totally uninvolved until 2003, because he was floating in the same circles as the others.
• 28:43
  SPEAKER_01: And there are people like Sarah Edmondson, who plays Emiliano Salinas, who we will be deep diving into the next episode, at ESP meetings as early as 2001.
• 28:57
  SPEAKER_01: And outside of this all functioning like an exclusive semi-secret society, there were a lot of material incentives that would have been appealing to these people at this time.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_01: Many of the same things we have seen that would have had utility for the prominent families in the US.
• 29:14
  SPEAKER_01: The ability to cross-pollinate offers all sorts of money-making opportunities, both legal and legally dubious.
• 29:22
  SPEAKER_01: For one, Levy, and to a lesser extent the Boone Brothers, can move tons of money tax-free into all sorts of front companies, trust structures, and shell LLCs, which we will be examining more closely next episode, with little to no oversight, since things like consulting fees and intensive retreats have intangible value.
• 29:48
  SPEAKER_01: They also have a bunch of land in Mexico that they can lease out for higher margins of their paying for to Nexium and its members at a guaranteed profit.
• 30:00
  SPEAKER_01: They can send the tuition fees of the people taking the classes to Nexium, and in turn, Nexium lines their pockets, paying hyper-inflated fees for the properties where they hold their classes.
• 30:13
  SPEAKER_01: On top of that, millions of dollars can move back and forth between Mexico and the US in the guise of loans for property acquisitions, tech startups, and legal defense funds.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_01: Instead of profits moving across international borders, they're simply servicing debts to offshore entities.
• 30:33
  SPEAKER_01: Add in what we've already talked about in the Bronfman episodes about mirror washing through the commodities market and using it to send money to financial entities on the other end, and the possibilities for who could have moved money and how much money could have moved are really endless.
• 30:52
  SPEAKER_01: Imagine this hypothetical.
• 30:54
  SPEAKER_01: The Bronfmans take money out of their trust and pretend to lose it in the commodities market using the complex financial transaction I described back at the end of episode four, where it bypasses all of the financial guardrails set up in the family trust and allows them to move the money tax-free.
• 31:14
  SPEAKER_01: In fact, even giving them certain tax incentives since they can claim lost money.
• 31:20
  SPEAKER_01: An LLC connected to Jack Levy sits on the other side collecting this same money and then sending it back to Albany as tuition and consulting fees, where it goes back into the Braffman's coffers.
• 31:34
  SPEAKER_01: The Braffman's in turn place some of that money in ESP's coffers, whereby they send money back to Mexico in the form of hyperinflated property rental fees.
• 31:47
  SPEAKER_01: Money that was originally tied up is now liquid in everybody profits.
• 31:52
  SPEAKER_01: On top of all of this, it's worth mentioning the compromise and blackmail angle we've already touched on, which is built into this entire operation, but is maybe even more effective in Mexico, where the ruling class is even more insular than in the U.S.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_01: The next 15 years, we'll see growth and corruption increasing exponentially, moving into both the halls of the Mexican political system.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_01: And once it is securely asconced in this world, it will use its absolute power and security to get experimental in ways deeper than even the U.S.
• 32:27
  SPEAKER_01: branch was ever capable of getting.
• 32:30
  SPEAKER_01: Keep in mind, not a single person associated with Mexican Nexium would be charged with a single crime.
• 32:36
  SPEAKER_01: And all of them were allowed to quietly move on once it all exploded to the point where it didn't even really affect their reputation.
• 32:45
  SPEAKER_01: The first sign of how untouchable the elite in Mexico controlling Nexium would become was probably in 2003, when the Forbes expose dropped.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_01: It hurt the U.S.
• 32:56
  SPEAKER_01: branch in a way it never totally recovered from.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_01: The one where Edgar Bronfman calls them a cult, and allegations of sleep deprivation, psychological manipulation, and financial scams all get aired out for the first time.
• 33:11
  SPEAKER_01: Even as the operation north of the border would expand, their reputation had a way of preceding them everywhere they went.
• 33:19
  SPEAKER_01: Meanwhile, in Mexico, the press barely reported on the expose if they did at all.
• 33:24
  SPEAKER_01: And it would take until 2017 for Mexican Nexium to experience any sort of reputational damage at all in the press.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_01: When it would finally come, it would be a blip on their radar, barely noticeable, as everybody used the federal police to toss Keith Rainier out, took their money and assets, and repositioned themselves almost seamlessly.
• 33:48
  SPEAKER_01: This is because in Mexico, Nexium would not just be a tool of industrialists, actors, intelligence cutouts, and stateless European royalty.
• 33:57
  SPEAKER_01: The land developers are only the beginning down here.
• 34:00
  SPEAKER_01: And on top of infiltrating some of the highest levels of government, they will infiltrate the highest levels of Mexican media.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_01: And by the time it's over, they will perform a vanishing act so total, your average true crime fan will see it all as a footnote in the Nexiem story, if it even gets mentioned at all.
• 34:20
  SPEAKER_01: When everything collapsed, they performed a controlled retreat with military precision.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_01: Jack Levy invited Keith Rainier to his property when he was on the run, just long enough to allow federal police to stage a raid and hand him over to U.S.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_01: authorities before all official mentions, video testimonials, and references linking Levy, his family, and Group OVQ's ties to ESP were purged from public corporate registries and websites.
• 34:49
  SPEAKER_01: He kept all of his properties, didn't even have to change Group OVEQ's name, and its holdings have continued to expand through Mexico even more than before.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_01: The Boons have practiced complete radio silence in regards to Nexium, continue to be powerful industrialists, and use the connections and leverage they received through their association to expand their empire.
• 35:16
  SPEAKER_01: Alright, and that's where we're gonna end it this week.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_01: We will be back in two weeks to do the next part of our Mexican Nexium arc.
• 35:26
  SPEAKER_01: We've got a lot more to get into.
• 37:11
  SPEAKER_01: So there's a lot there.
• 37:13
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