Keith Raniere asks for a new trial, claims witnesses lied about planning lawsuit - 2020-03-09
Keith Raniere asks for a new trial, claims witnesses lied about planning lawsuit March 9, 2020,
Convicted Nxivm leader Keith Raniere filed a motion for a new trial today, saying that some of the witnesses against him in last year's federal prosecution committed perjury during their testimony.
Raniere is awaiting sentencing after being found guilty last June of sex trafficking and faces decades in prison. But since his conviction a massive new lawsuit was filed against him by former Nxivm members, including some of the witnesses who testified in the criminal trial.
In that testimony, Raniere's attorney Marc Agnifilo asked witnesses if they were planning to sue Raniere, and they answered no. But in his new filing, Raniere points out that the attorney who filed the lawsuit, Neil Glazer, had been shuttling the witnesses to interviews with federal prosecutors, and the prosecutors should have known that Glazer was planning a civil case.
