[3] On August 11, 2002, sixteen-year-old Elliot was returning home from camp via Greyhound bus when he repeatedly shouted an anti-black racial slur at black passengers.
[15] Also in 2014, Elliot married Canadian NXIVM member Maja Miljkovic to help obtain a work visa for her; The marriage ended following an investigation by U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
[17][18] In 2019, Porter's medical license was revoked for violation of 40 state and federal regulations, including his role overseeing "research".
[19][20][21] Prosecutors from the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York in the Bronfman case wrote, "the participants in this 'study' have expressed significant distress at their involvement" and offered one victim impact statement from a study participant who said that the study "did nothing for me except ruin my self-esteem, ruin my mental health, and made me hate myself.
Allegations of visa fraud, identity theft, and human trafficking were central to the Department of Justice's RICO Act case.
[26] In October 2021, Elliot filed a $12 million lawsuit against Lions Gate Entertainment, alleging the Starz network documentary series Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult libelled and defamed him.
The judge found that the documentary did "imply that Plaintiff was a devoted member of an organization whose leader has been implicated in a range of serious sexual crimes, but this assertion – however unflattering – is substantially true.