Smallville star Allison Mack has been released from prison after her involvement with a strange cult. CNN reports that the actress is out in the world according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Mack was a high-ranking member of Nvixm, a group that manipulated women into becoming “slaves” to leader Keith Raniere. Details about the case shocked a lot of observers. Nvixm was basically sex trafficking women and got brought down after a long investigation. Back in 2020, Raniere was sentenced to 120 years in prison. Before the trial even began, Mack pleaded guilty to racketeering and conspiracy charges in 2019. That seems to have earned the Smallville actress some leniency.
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Other Members of Smallville Speak Out on Mack’s Case
As the trial was going on, fellow Smallville-verse actors came forward to share their experience around Mack. In the case of Alaina Huffman, who played Black Canary on the show, she never really recognized that there was something nefarious going on until all the other news came to light.
“Interestingly, when I look back on it, I had been invited to several meetings, and because I had two little kids at the time, I never really had the time and our schedules never really lined up, so I never ended up attending,” Huffman explained in a recent interview. “Honestly there was always a little something off about it.”
“It was just a feeling, and I was like, ‘No, I’m good,’ and I stayed away,” Huffman further explained. “I don’t know if that’s because I had my own village, I wasn’t very susceptible or vulnerable. I had a great group of friends, at the time I was married, and I had my kids.”
Mack’s Statement After the Ruling Came Down
In a letter after her court date, the Smallville actress called being involved with this organization “the biggest mistake and greatest regret of my life.” Understandably, she probably has remorse, but in a lot of fans’ minds, the star will be associated with this rather than her work on The CW.
Mack elaborated, “I am sorry to those of you that I brought into NXIVM. I am sorry I ever exposed you to the nefarious and emotionally abusive schemes of a twisted man.”
Her representation would also talk about her experience and how it all went wrong. “The NXIVM saga and the story of Ms. Mack’s descent have been a tragedy for all involved. But that need not, and should not, be the end of the story for Allison Mack. Ms. Mack now understands that this was the best thing that could have happened to her at that time.”
“As alleged, this long-running conspiracy crossed multiple avenues of criminal activity, which included, among other things, electronic monitoring; identity theft; extortion; victim smuggling; and illegal trafficking of a victim after a period of unlawful confinement. The details of these alleged crimes become more and more grim as we continue to dig deeper into the conduct of this organization and its intended mission,” William Sweeney, the assistant director in charge of the FBI’s New York field office wrote back in 2019. “Today’s superseding indictment highlights our commitment to bringing justice to NXIVM’s many victims.”
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