Getty Images/Spencer Platt(NEW YORK) — Former Smallville star Allison Mack has pleaded guilty to racketeering and racketeering conspiracy charges in connection to the NXIVM sex cult.
The pleas, made in a Brooklyn federal courtroom Monday morning, including the acts of “extortion and forced labor.” Mack faces a maximum of 40 years in prison: 20 years per each count. She will be sentenced on September 11, 2019.
She had faced life in prison; Mack had been slapped with a host of charges, including sex trafficking.
Mack’s is the third guilty plea in the NXIVM case. Prosecutors say the supposed self-help group literally branded women with the initials of founder Keith Raniere, who, it’s alleged, used them as sex slaves.
Among other crimes, Mack was accused of gathering compromising information on some of Raniere’s victims, in an attempt to compel them to acquiesce to “so-called acts of love” with the cult-like group’s founder.
Raniere, heiress Clare Bronfman and Kathy Russell, another person who was part of the group’s leadership, previously pleaded not guilty; Raniere insists any sex was consensual.
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