Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Authory Eases Aggregating, Marketing, Scaling by Nicole Wright

Authory eases aggregating, marketing, scaling, more.

by Nicole Wright
September 8, 2021

Society of Professional Journalists suggested Authory.com to me, and now I know how essential Authory is - I'm going to extend it – for ANYONE in business.

It's not only for Journalists, Writers, Thought Leaders, as Authory aggregates your publications, has features that allow newsletters, as well as gain new subscribers. To me this means huge time savings, automation, and a way to market and scale start-ups, or otherwise existing companies who are at a stage wanting to grow. It can benefit one-person or small consulting firms; or ANYONE who is interested in creating and maintaining organization, assembling earned or paid media, and experiencing a greater ease in growing their brand.

Authory presents visually with a clean appearance. The features are comprehensively useful and relevant, without being overwhelming.

Building start-ups in private equity is different when VC backed, or your small team of excellent skilled professionals. Normally this latter category might be akin to an example of the independent film "movie triangle" time – money – quality. Obviously smaller firms or independent professionals have quality; they're brilliant and best in class, but small due to either time or money – when money references the cost of software or salaries that a VC backed firm would have. In this business category, I wanted to find various tools to help the excellent smaller companies take their business to the next level, helping to achieve their goals. While there are a host of tools that help, with a smaller handful much better than the rest, I wasn't expecting Authory to be a game changer for me, and I believe it is.

At some of the Corps I've invested in, I've hired marketing team and web designers to aggregate earned media and update the website. I no longer have to do that for my own personal projects, or if I want to grow a new brand organically. Some of the smaller boutique clients I consult with too; I'm excited to show them Authory, as many smaller companies aren't aggregating their earned media, and often haven't even thought about it until they get closer to investment funding, or otherwise different types of marketing/sales opportunities; and at that point, when they are asked for a portfolio and don't have it, it changes the perspective of the interested party. Authory can hands down solve that problem.

I'm looking forward to utilizing their newsletter feature; which seems like a better alternative to MailChimp, ConstantContact, or SalesForce.

The team at Authory has been clear, helpful, responsive; I appreciate their goal and execution – they do it well.

I asked Eric why he started Authory, and here is his response: I started Authory when I almost missed an article of a favorite journalist of mine. At that time I was wondering why there was no easy way for me to follow the content of said journalist. And then I started out to build such a direct gateway between readers and journalists.

"Authory has evolved a lot since then. Our customers made it very clear that they love the feature of the automated newsletter for their readers, but they also want a portfolio page that's self-updating, and article backups, and social media analytics."

Try and love it for yourself. Feel free to check out Authory.

Or sign up using an invite link: https://authory.com/walliserglobal/invite?key=WaSIh

Is your update actually malware compromising your data & security?

Is your update actually malware compromising your data & security?

by Nicole Wright

September 8th, 2021

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This IE add-on is. Bypassing firewall, and sending private information to remote third parties, who are all engaging in felony behaviors. Some of the younger hackers think it's cool - that means they fail to be eusocial; i.e. they're anti-social; i.e. they're pathological criminals with low to no empathy - narcissistic or sociopathic. Some of the older hackers fit a few different profiles. I trust law enforcement handles them.

For me, I do my security checks before every financial transaction, and that is when I uncover bugs, and react to the threat accordingly. It's either then, or when I'm working on a cyber criminal case. Either way, security check-lists matter. This bug occurred on September 2nd, and the specific system was used for entertainment until September 6th, when it was cleaned and reported to law enforcement.

Please check your Microsoft Updates and verify them with Microsoft. Check out your Firewall. And absolutely report to the government phishing and other breaches. Send tips to FBI and other federal and local governments. If we all talk, we can begin to eradicate criminal behavior, theft, and criminal abuse.

Thanks.

Thursday, April 15, 2021

Traffickers are using for illegally dosing unsuspecting women and girls

DV (domestic violence) also known as DV for Daily Value

an aka Traffickers are using for illegally dosing unsuspecting women and girls.

April 15, 2021

by Nicole Wright

In Texas 2021, I was covering Cyber Crime, when a woman name Rane Patel came forward. She was a current or former Sugar Baby, and a current sex worker, being abused by her boyfriend. She wanted to tell me about the sadistic abuse by her Master, Jason Baer.

She proceeded to share with me information about her drug addiction and arrests. It seemed as though her issues with addiction started early, and happened as she had been a beautiful teenager, who was groomed by a predator in her formative years. The arrests initially seemed to be due to acts of desperation when she'd had enough and was trying to escape domestic violence. Over time, that pattern continued. Although it also seemed that she became complicit in the crimes as her rap sheet grew - she felt she had tried everything with no way out, and nothing left to resort to.

She was in her 30's, and had little to live for. She was depressed, addicted, and looking for love. She seemed confused about what love meant. She was easily groomed by Jason Baer, and shared with me their first sexual encounter, where she was drugged and raped. Within a month, Jason Baer abused her again, and had her arrested, for his abuse. Ironic. He clearly knew how to abuse the system too.

When I interviewed Jason, his side stepped many of my questions. However I am certified in Dr. Paul Ekman's lie detection techniques, and Jason was no match at all.

The part I found interesting, was his continued references to DV.

My interview with Rane, DV meant Domestic Violence.

My interview with Jason, he was referencing something different, but wouldn't say what it was.

I dug deeper, and less than a year later, turned up some linked information related to Phenytoin. I have a hunch that he meant Daily Value of Phenytoin for his victims. Just a hunch.

The technology Jason is using to abuse women, sex traffic, and drug traffic (he is facing felony drug trafficking charges in one state), is the same or similar technolgy that Wisdom Systems is using to harass individuals who left The Forum, or individuals who know too much. Truth is transparent. Even more obvious to the trained and analytical eye. When you look at a situation without judgement, the pieces are all there. People's responses to questions, tells even more about what you cannot see.

This hunch about Daily Value of Phenytoin relates to Craig Brewer, who is a criminal I interviewed in 2015, when I was trying to get to the bottom of a female assault case from 2012.

Craig Brewer is a teacher at Sterne School in San Francisco, California. He told me that he was targeting Celebrities, and wanted to know more about my former cooking school, My Celebrity Chef. During the process of the interview, he thought he was interviewing me. In his narcisstic glory, he failed to recognize that he had already tipped me off to his criminal intentions. His NPD blindness allowed me to go deeper.

Craig had a slip of paper in his pocket with the name of a drug, and it's half-life.

He kept going back to that paper, and a physical memory he was holding onto, and smiling uncontrollably. This is machiavellianism.

I asked him what he was going back to. He started talking about a girl in his class. She was young; maybe 12; I'm not sure. Her name was Laura. He told me that he gave her special water. And then the following day, would ask her to tell him about any talks she had had with her mother, who was a nutritionist. He said that her mother could not figure out what was wrong with the girl, nor the reason for her outbursts. He was delighted by this. He revelled in it. [He was drugging Laura.]

I asked him why specifically he derived so much pleasure from his game (as he called it) with Laura.

He looked upset for a moment, and his face scrunched up in a bizarre and painful way, that was alarming, and very telling. He confessed that he hated her for who she was and what she had, and wanted to destroy her life.

I exited the interview. I went to the restroom, then went to get my bag and leave. I found the half-life note had been placed there. My allergy presciption, Loratadine, was out of it's bag and sprinkled around. I felt threatened. I called the police. The police came and completed a search. They found a bottle of Gabapentin that was Craig's. They said nothing was out of order legally, but that I was clearly upset. I went to the emergency room and reported abuse and tampering by Craig. They took the report, and I went home.

Craig messaged me, telling me that if I told anyone else, that I would be punished.

2017 I ran into an aspect of Craig's game again, which I handled, then increased my security.

I saw Craig around the same time I interviewed Rane Patel and Jason Baer in 2021. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Besides hurting the Sterne School student, Laura, Craig admitted to hurting other of his students in New York. He liked to work with disabled kids, and they didn't know he was a perpetrator.

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

DOJ: Acting U.S. Attorney Seth D. DuCharme announces sentencing of Nxivm leader Keith Raniere

Acting U.S. Attorney Seth D. DuCharme announces sentencing of Nxivm leader Keith Raniere

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October 27, 2020

BROOKLYN, NEW YORK - Acting United States Attorney Seth D. DuCharme speaks to the media outside Brooklyn Federal Court after Nxivm founder and leader Keith Raniere is sentenced to 120 years in prison. See more at: https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/nxivm-leader-keith-raniere-sentenced-120-years-prison-racketeering-and-sex-trafficking

Updated June 21, 2022

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DOJ: NXIVM Leader Keith Raniere Sentenced to 120 Years in Prison for Racketeering and Sex Trafficking Offenses

Department of Justice

U.S. Attorney’s Office

Eastern District of New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

NXIVM Leader Keith Raniere Sentenced to 120 Years in Prison for Racketeering and Sex Trafficking Offenses

Keith Raniere, the founder and leader of Nxivm, was sentenced today to 120 years in prison by United States District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis in federal court in Brooklyn. Raniere was convicted by a federal jury in June 2019 of racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking, attempted sex trafficking, sex trafficking conspiracy, forced labor conspiracy and wire fraud conspiracy. The Court also imposed a fine of $1,750,000. At the sentencing hearing, the Court heard victim impact statements from 15 individuals, including “Camila,” the victim who was sexually exploited by Raniere when she was 15 years old. A hearing on victim restitution will be held at a later date.

Seth D. DuCharme, Acting United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, William F. Sweeney, Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), and Jonathan D. Larsen, Special Agent-in-Charge, Internal Revenue Service-Criminal Investigation, New York Field Office (IRS-CI), announced the sentence.

“The 120-year sentence imposed on Keith Raniere today is a measure of his appalling crimes committed over a decade,” stated Acting United States Attorney DuCharme. “Raniere exploited and abused his victims emotionally, physically and sexually for his personal gratification. It is my hope that today’s sentence brings closure to the victims and their families.” Mr. DuCharme extended his grateful appreciation to the Department of Homeland Security, Homeland Security Investigations, the New York State Police and the United States Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York for their valuable assistance during the investigation and prosecution.

“Raniere’s reign of control over the women he scarred, both physically and emotionally, is the making of a horror story. It is inconceivable to think of the sexual exploitation, abuse, seclusion, and mind control his victims suffered—at his direction. Today the judge has given him 120 years to think about whether or not the torture he inflicted on others for more than a decade, and the distress he brought to their families, was worth it in the end,” stated FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge Sweeney.

“Sexual exploitation of children and women is among the most reprehensible and vile forms of crime,” stated IRS-CI Special Agent-in-Charge Larsen. “While Keith Raniere’s sentence cannot erase the pain his victims have endured, I hope it provides an opportunity for healing and a path forward. Today’s sentencing should be a warning for criminals around the world. Regardless of the illegal enterprise and whether the profits are tangible or not, IRS-CI will decode illicit schemes and hold criminals accountable for the pain, suffering and financial abuse of their victims.”

Raniere led a criminal racketeering enterprise and relied on an “inner circle” of co-conspirators to carry out his orders. The purpose of the enterprise was to promote Raniere and to recruit individuals into purported self-help organizations that Raniere founded, including Nxivm and DOS (“Dominus Obsequious Sororium”). Raniere and his co-conspirators committed a wide range of criminal activity, including sex trafficking, forced labor, alien smuggling, wire fraud and obstruction of justice. Specifically, Raniere sexually exploited “Camila,” then a 15-year-old child, and took photographs of his abuse. At the time, Raniere was 45 years old. Raniere and his co-conspirators also trafficked “Daniela” for labor and services and confined her to a room for nearly two years in an attempt to force Daniela to do work for him. Daniela was told that if she left the room, she would be sent to Mexico without any identification documents. Daniela went months without human contact and was denied prompt medical care. During this time, Daniela wrote hundreds of letters to Raniere pleading to be released from her confinement. Daniela testified at trial that while confined to the room, she contemplated suicide.

In late 2015, Raniere created and led DOS, a secret organization in which women were recruited under the false pretense of joining a women-only mentorship group, later discovering that they had taken “vows of obedience” to women who were “slaves” to Raniere. Prospective DOS victims were required to provide “collateral”—including damaging confessions about themselves and loved ones (truthful or not), rights to financial assets, and sexually explicit photographs and videos—to prevent them from leaving the group or disclosing its existence to others. Raniere required DOS “slaves” to take nude photographs, perform labor, and in some cases, to engage in sex acts with him. As proved at trial, the victims “Nicole” and “Jay” were among the DOS victims directed to have sex with Raniere.

Each of Raniere’s co-defendants previously pleaded guilty. On September 2020, Clare Bronfman was sentenced to 81 months’ imprisonment after having been convicted of conspiracy to conceal and harbor aliens for financial gain and fraudulent use of personal identification information. The remaining co-defendants are awaiting sentencing. On March 12, 2019, Nancy Salzman, Nxivm’s president and co-founder, pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy. On March 25, 2019, Lauren Salzman, a first-line “master” in DOS, pleaded guilty to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy. On April 8, 2019, Allison Mack, another first-line “master” in DOS, pleaded guilty to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy. On April 19, 2019, Kathy Russell, a bookkeeper for Nxivm, pleaded guilty to visa fraud.

The government’s case is being handled by the Office’s Organized Crime and Gangs Section. Assistant United States Attorneys Tanya Hajjar, Mark J. Lesko and Kevin Trowel are in charge of the prosecution. Assistant United States Attorney Karin Orenstein of the Office’s Civil Division is handling forfeiture matters.

The Defendant:

KEITH RANIERE (also known as “Vanguard” and “Grandmaster”)
Age: 60
Waterford, New York

E.D.N.Y. Docket No. 18-CR-204 (S-2) (NGG)

Topic(s):

Human Trafficking

Immigration

Component(s):

USAO - New York, Eastern

Contact:

John Marzulli United States Attorney’s Office (718) 254-6323

Updated October 27, 2020