Nancy L. Salzman (born July 16, 1954) is an American convicted felon and the co-founder of NXIVM, a multi-level marketing company and cult based near Albany, New York.
In Salzman's home, law enforcement agents recovered a box containing purported private banking information of many individuals perceived to be critics and enemies of Raniere, including journalists, judges and an expert on cults.
Salzman also conspired to obstruct justice by altering videotapes in a civil suit between NXIVM and a former student by editing and removing portions of session videos in favor of the company.
During the pending litigation, Salzman and others altered the videotapes to remove segments that they believed would have supported the former student's claims and to make it look as if the videos were unedited.
Agents also seized numerous computers, data-storage devices, cameras, various mobile phones and BlackBerrys, and small amounts of Mexican and Russian currency.
[15] In July 2018, the court found that Salzman, Keith Raniere, Clare Bronfman, Allison Mack, Kathy Russell, and Salzman's daughter had committed identity theft, extortion, forced labor, sex trafficking, money laundering, wire fraud and obstruction of justice.
The lawsuit charged that the NXIVM organisation was a pyramid scheme that exploited its recruits, conducted illegal human experiments, and made it "physically and psychologically difficult, and in some cases impossible, to leave the coercive community.