<p>The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/department-of-justice" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Department of Justice</a> manipulated evidence in the sex trafficking trial of convicted cult leader Keith Raniere, a group of ex-FBI experts backed by famed attorney <a href="https://editorial.dailywire.com/news/famed-lawyer-alan-dershowitz-says-its-likely-on-set-hutchins-killing-a-homicide/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Alan Dershowitz</a> claimed Thursday.</p>
<p>Raniere was convicted in 2019, but now the group of six former FBI forensic experts claims the government framed him on the charge of possession of child pornography. They held a virtual press conference on Thursday, joined by Dershowitz, who is representing Raniere, former U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins, and several others.</p>
<p>&#8220;If true, this is a historic level of corruption,&#8221; Dershowitz said. &#8220;There must be immediate action.&#8221;</p>
<p>The forensic experts said they examined the government&#8217;s evidence and concluded that the &#8220;digital evidence devices&#8221; used to convict Raniere  were &#8220;significantly manipulated.&#8221;</p>
<p>The child porn charge related to nude images of a 15-year-old  on Raniere&#8217;s  camera and computer. Prosecutors used timestamps on the photos to prove she was underage, but the cyber experts concluded &#8220;with scientific certainty&#8221; that the files on the camera&#8217;s memory card and the external hard drive were backdated to alter the timeline relative to her age.</p>
<p>They also claimed some damning photos were planted on a hard drive to make them look like backups.</p>
<p>“It is clear that the photos in this case were planted there,” former FBI Senior Forensic Examiner Stacy Eldridge said.</p>
<p>On top of this, several FBI employees are documented to have committed &#8220;atrocious&#8221; violations of FBI forensic protocols, they said.</p>
<p>&#8220;The alteration of evidence and serious breaches of evidence-handling protocols are indisputable, and they all aligned with the government&#8217;s narrative at trial,&#8221; the experts said.</p>
<p>Former FBI Forensic Examiner William Odom said that in his 25 years of digital forensic investigations including five years with the FBI, &#8220;the amount of premeditation to perform this fraud — I’ve never seen anything like that.”</p>
<p>&#8220;None of us have ever in our careers claimed to have witnessed government tampering, much less the scale of tampering we have seen in this case,&#8221; the six experts said in their joint statement.</p>
<p>Dershowitz called for an evidentiary hearing and said that appropriate relief might include a new trial or even dismissal of the indictment due to &#8220;outrageous government conduct.&#8221;</p>
<p>Raniere founded and led NXIVM, a multi-level marketing company in Albany, New York. In June, 2019, he was convicted by a federal jury of charges including racketeering, sex trafficking, and possession of child pornography.</p>
<p>Over two decades starting in the late &#8217;90s, NXIVM attracted thousands of followers including celebrities and social elites through its personal development seminars. Raniere was arrested in 2018 after accusations of systemic sexual abuse of the cult&#8217;s female members. He is currently imprisoned at U.S. Penitentiary Tucson in Arizona.</p>
<p>Cummins, who from 2001 to 2006 was the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas, called for an investigation and said the credibility of the DOJ and FBI is at a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-robert-mueller-shredded-the-fbis-credibility-centralization-intelligence-investigation-crossfire-hurricane-bush-911-clinton-email-sussmann-11663173014">low point</a>.</p>
<p>&#8220;In recent years a variety of unrelated revelations have left the DOJ and FBI’s reputation in tatters. Their credibility is in question. It would be a historic finding if it were determined that someone tampered with the evidence in this case,&#8221; Cummins said.</p>
<p>The FBI responded to a request for comment by stating that, &#8220;we have no comment on this matter.&#8221;</p>
<p>Currently, the case is a p<span style="font-weight: 400;">ost-conviction case that would have to return to trial court in order for the evidence concerns to be evaluated, according to Raniere&#8217;s lawyer Joseph Tully.</span></p>

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