keith raniere was found guilty last year on several counts. only on "cbs this morning" nikki battiste spoke with supporters of keith raniere and they claim he should not have been convicted in the first place. nikki battiste has more on this story. >> raise your hand if you believe you were or are part of a cult. raise your hand if you think keith raniere was wrongfully convicted. >> reporter: marc, suneel, eduardo and michele and nicki have not spoken about their. >> i'm in nxivm. >> it was a parent company. >> very unfortunate the way that the word nxivm has been applied and is now synonymous with the term sex cult which i don't even know how to define what is that. >> reporter: some former members ve define it. in a civil lawsuit more than 80 plaintiffs claim nxivm nctionfu as both a ponzi scheme and coercive community where elm. abused and that it was difficult and in some cases impossible to leave. >> outside of gender, outside of sex, there's human. >> reporter: in 1998 keith raniere founded nxivm in albany, new york, branches stretched

used her extraordinary wealth and social status to fund and promote a criminal enterprise led by keith raniereat i can have relationships with multiple women for a long time? >> reporter: prosecutors say raniere, who is the focus of hbo documentary "the vow" was a con man and predator who took advantage of women, allegedly recruiting some into a secret sorority within nxivm, blackmailing them with nude photos, threatening to expose their deepest darkest secrets to be his slaves and have sex with him. some alleged they were even branded with the symbol that includes his initials. bronfman joined the so-called self-help group in 2003 and moved to albany where it was based and devoted her life to it giving the group millions of dollars. >> i was a professional show jumper living in holland and i started working with the founder and the co-founder of the organization nancy salzman and keith raniere and the best place to be given that i was working with keith and nancy was in albany, so i bought a farm, created a professional facility and moved up here. >> reporter: prosecutors say she spent over $