‘Smallville’ Actress Who Recruited Women for Nxivm Is Released From Prison
Allison Mack, the “Smallville” actress who recruited women to the cultlike group Nxivm and assisted prosecutors in convicting its leader of sex trafficking and other crimes, was released from a federal prison this week after serving two years of a three-year sentence on racketeering and racketeering conspiracy charges.
Her release, on Monday, was posted on the Federal Bureau of Prisons website. It was earlier reported by the Albany Times Union newspaper.
At her sentencing in a Brooklyn court in 2021, a federal judge said Ms. Mack had used her status as a popular actress to lure women into her orbit to “recruit and groom them as sexual partners” for the group’s leader, Keith Raniere, and called her “an essential accomplice.”
Ms. Mack, 40, was arrested in 2018. She pleaded guilty in 2019 to racketeering and conspiracy charges. While she had faced up to 17 years in prison, she received a shorter sentence after helping prosecutors who were pursuing a case against Mr. Raniere by handing over evidence.
Source: The New York Times
