Federal prosecutors said the former « Smallville » actress « provided substantial assistance to the government » — and thus recommended a light sentence.
Casting the former “Smallville” actress as “both a slave and a master” of NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere, a federal judge sentenced Allison Mack to three years in federal prison for two racketeering offenses at an emotional 90 minute sentencing hearing on Wednesday. “When it came to DOS and the monstrous crimes he committed in that organization, you were an essential accomplice,” U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis told Mack in the courtroom, referring to the secret “sisterhood” she led in Raniere’s service. “Mr. Raniere could not have done that without you,” Garaufis added. One of Mack’s victims, Jessica Jones, likened Mack to another alleged sex-trafficking organization during a thundering monologue in court where she called the duo of the “most evil monsters” she ever met. “She is the Ghislaine Maxwell to Keith’s Jeffrey Epstein,” Jones said, recounting falling “prey” to the duo after a history of molestation and abuse. Mack delivered a tearful apology to her victims, calling her behavior “abusive,” “abhorrent,” and “illegal.” “I renounce Keith Reniere and his teachings,” she intoned. Since her guilty plea, Mack has spent the past three years living with her family, which supported her in court. Garaufis’s sentence is well below the federal sentencing guidelines, calculated between 14 and 17.
