Mack, known for her role as young Superman’s close friend in the Smallville series, She was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 after pleading guilty two years ago to manipulating women into becoming sex slaves of Keith Raniere, leader of NXIVM.
Online records from the US Bureau of Prisons show that Mack, 40, was released Monday from a federal prison in Dublin, California, near San Francisco. The Albany Times-Union newspaper was the first to report on his release.
Television actress Allison Mack leaves federal court in Brooklyn, New York April 8, 2019 after she pleaded guilty to racketeering charges in the New York state cult group NXIVM case.
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What did Allison Mack do?
The actress helped prosecutors gather evidence on how it went Raniere founded a secret society made up of indoctrinated women whom he marked with his initials and forced him to have sexual relations with him.
Over time, Mack disowned Raniere, expressing “regret and guilt.” prior to his hearing in federal court in Brooklyn, New York.
What is the NXIVM sect?
Keith Raniere describes himself as a self-help guru and founded the cult group NXIVM in the early 2000s.
Subsequent research revealed that the structure of the sect resembled a pyramid scheme. Members paid for an initial course, in which participants were forced to take additional courses at a higher price and encouraged to recruit new members to “rise” in the sect and thus gain privileges.
Under the guise of an alleged “personal motivation,” Raniere used the organization to cover up a fraternity called DOS, which investigators say was founded in 2015 and in which Women were forced to have sex with himobey his orders and say nothing.
The women were considered “sex slaves,” and Raniere went so far as to mark them with his initials, KR, on the pelvis. This was done through a secret ritual in which the women said, “Master, please mark me, it would be an honor.”
A condition of joining this fraternity was the provision of “guarantees” of their loyalty, including compromising information from friends and family, nude photos, and rights to their belongings.
“Raniere’s control of women is a horror story,” declared William F. Sweeney, director of the FBI’s New York Bureau, in 2022. “It’s unimaginable sexual exploitation, abuse, imprisonment and mind control suffered his victims under his leadership.
According to prosecutor Richard Donoghue, Allison Mack was one of Raniere’s most notorious accomplices until her arrest in 2018. The prosecutor explained that the woman had presented herself as the “mentor” of the sect.
After numerous allegations of sexual abuse, a federal investigation found that the group, with the support of his accomplices, served as a vehicle for Raniere’s crimes.
The sect was dissolved by the authorities in 2019.
They branded them like cattle and subjected them to morbid rituals: According to the FBI, this is how the guru group that sexually enslaved several women worked