Smallville alum Allison Mack sentenced to three years in prison for her role in sex trafficking cult NXIVM

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Mack's sentence comes more than two years after she pleaded guilty to racketeering and conspiracy charges for her role as a leader in NXIVM. Mack was arrested in 2018, a year after a New York Times investigation into NXIVM. "You willingly enslaved, destabilized, and manipulated other women so that when they were at their most vulnerable, when they believed that they owed you total obedience and that anything less than that would cause them serious personal and financial harm, when you had taken from them their sense of agency to make their own choices, you gave them 'special assignments' to satisfy Mr. Raniere’s sexual interests," U.S. District Court Judge Nicholas Garaufis told Mack. "Mr. Raniere could not have done that without you. You did that together. The evidence presented at his trial demonstrated that you were not a begrudging or passive enabler, but rather that you were a willing and proactive ally." Before she was sentenced, Mack filed a letter with the court apologizing and asking for no jail time, saying she had turned her life around with academic studies and reconnecting with family. “I threw myself into the teachings of Keith Raniere with everything I had. I believed, whole-heartedly, that his mentorship was leading me to a better, more enlightened version of myself,” she wrote in her letter. “I devoted my loyalty, my resources, and, ultimately, my life to him. This was the biggest mistake and regret of my life.” Federal prosecutors had asked Garaufis to give Mack a reduced sentence, citing her assistance in NXIVM leader Raniere’s conviction by providing them with an incriminating audiotape. ALSO: A former NXIVM member slammed Mack in court, calling her "a predator, a danger to society, and has no remorse for her victims."