Editing NXIVM (section)

==== Raniere and loyalists activities====
In summer 2020, with the COVID-19 pandemic preventing in-person visitation to the [[Metropolitan Detention Center, Brooklyn]], Raniere's remaining followers, including actress [[Nicki Clyne]], began assembling to dance near the jail. Though they initially claimed to be entertaining all of the detainees, they were seen with a sign addressed to "Kay Rose," a name sharing Raniere's initials.<ref>{{Cite web |date=July 17, 2020 |title=Podcast: NXIVM members dance outside federal lockup for Keith Raniere |url=https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Podcast-NXIVM-members-dance-outside-federal-15415507.php |access-date=June 12, 2022 |website=Times Union |language=en-US}}</ref> The group began calling itself "The Forgotten Ones" and "We Are As You." Former NXIVM member turned prosecution witness Mark Vicente dismissed the group as a "cover movement" to support Raniere.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Beeferman |first1=Jason |last2=Lapin |first2=Tamar |date=July 15, 2020 |title=Dancers outside Brooklyn jail are 'cover movement' for Nxivm sex cult |url=https://nypost.com/2020/07/15/dancers-outside-brooklyn-jail-are-cover-movement-for-nxivm-sex-cult/ |access-date=June 12, 2022 |website=New York Post |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=July 23, 2020 |title=Brooklyn Prison Dancers Linked to 'Sex Cult' NXIVM Start Social Justice Organization |url=https://bkreader.com/2020/07/23/nxivm-group-holds-nightly-dances-outside-of-brooklyn-prison-despite-its-controversial-ties/ |access-date=June 12, 2022 |website=BK Reader |language=en-US}}</ref>

While incarcerated, Raniere has maintained his leadership role over NXIVM, regularly communicating with his followers by phone and through [[TRULINCS]] email. A July 16, 2020, intelligence analysis memorandum from the [[Federal Bureau of Prisons]]' Counter Terrorism Unit states that Raniere instructed his follower Suneel Chakravorty to get more women to dance "erotically" outside of the MDC. In response, authorities at the MDC moved Raniere to another unit to keep the dancers out of his line of sight. A frustrated Raniere instructed his followers to help get him moved back by ingratiating themselves to prison staff, including offering coffee and donuts as they left their shifts.<ref name=":2">{{Cite Pacer|plaintiff=Keith Raniere|defendant=Merrick Garland|title=Exhibit D, Response in Opposition re: 7 First Motion for Preliminary Injunction|doc-number=14|att-number=5|date=June 9, 2022|pacer-number=1295745|use-recap=yes|case-state=AZ|case-division=4|case-year=2022|case-type=cv|case-sequence=00212|access-date=June 12, 2022}}</ref>

Ahead of his sentencing, prosecutors submitted a number of Raniere's communications and disciplinary issues in prison as evidence of [[remorse]]lessness and that he continues to control his followers. The communications included Raniere instructing his followers to have [[Alan Dershowitz]], the attorney who successfully negotiated a [[non-prosecution agreement]] of the late [[Jeffrey Epstein]], speak on his behalf; Dershowitz did not comment on the matter.<ref name="dailybeast_watched2">{{cite news |last=Melendez |first=Pilar |date=August 28, 2020 |title=NXIVM Cult Leader's Jailhouse Call to Disciples: 'The Judge Needs to Know He's Being Watched' |newspaper=The Daily Beast |url=https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-judge-needs-to-know-hes-being-watched-nxivm-leader-keith-raniere-says-in-jailhouse-call}}</ref> Prosecutors also submitted documentation that Raniere and his follower Chakravorty used a false name and "[[Prepaid mobile phone|burner phone]]" to evade detection, with Raniere instructing Chakravorty to "get scrutiny" on Judge [[Nicholas Garaufis]], explaining that "the judge needs to know he's being watched".<ref name="auto42">{{cite web |last=Gavin |first=Robert |date=August 28, 2020 |title=Raniere, facing possible life sentence, wants judge to know 'he's being watched' |url=https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Raniere-facing-possible-life-sentence-wants-15521201.php |website=Times Union}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Pacer|plaintiff=United States of America|defendant=Keith Raniere|title=Government's Sentencing Memorandum as to Defendant Keith Raniere|doc-number=914|date=August 27, 2020|pacer-number=416187|use-recap=yes|case-state=NY|case-district=ED|case-division=1|case-year=2018|case-type=cr|case-sequence=00204|access-date=June 12, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{Cite Pacer|plaintiff=United States of America|defendant=Keith Raniere|title=Exhibit D, Sentencing Memorandum by USA as to Keith Raniere|doc-number=914|att-number=3|date=August 27, 2020|pacer-number=416187|use-recap=yes|case-state=NY|case-district=ED|case-division=1|case-year=2018|case-type=cr|case-sequence=00204|access-date=June 12, 2022}}</ref>