The reportage about NXIVM has been sloppy at best. The charges thrown at the leader Raniere were a mishmash of racketeering, child pornography and sex trafficking charges with the old favorite mail fraud thrown in for good measure. However most coverage of NXIVM obsesses with abject horror over the BDSM aspect with a particular emphasis on the branding. There was a recent thread in the Lobby about Femdom going mainstream but this case demonstrates that there is still a great deal of antipathy towards BDSM.

Here is the NY Times account of Raniere's sentencing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/nyregion/nxivm-cult-keith-raniere-sentenced.html

After they threw the book at him the prosecutors went after the women in his inner circle, seeing them as being akin to Manson's girls.