Anecdotes

Founded a "personal growth" movement called NXVIM, or "Nexium". On 6/19/19 he was convicted of federal crimes including sex trafficking of children, conspiracy and conspiracy to commit forced labor, all related to a secret society within NXIVM known as DOS, or The Vow. He was scheduled to be sentenced in early 2020. He faces a mandatory minimum prison term of 15 years and a possible life sentence.

In 1990 he founded his own multi-level marketing company, Consumers' Buyline Inc. It shut down in 1993 after being investigated by 20 states; that year, New York filed a lawsuit alleging the organization was a pyramid scheme. In 1996 he signed a consent order permanently barring him from "promoting, offering or granting participation in a chain distribution scheme" and ordering him to pay a $40,000 fine.