The Bureau of Prisons will unlock the doors to Clare Webb Bronfman’s prison cell at the Philadelphia Detention Center, and allow prisoner 91010-053 to head to the Bronx where she will grace the Bronx Community Correctional Center, a busy halfway house.
Frank Report learned these glad tidings today, when several of her more than 100 victims received notice of her coming release by email.
The US government’s message to her victims reads as follows:
“This notice is to inform you that CLARE BRONFMAN has been approved for placement in a Community Corrections Center (CCC), otherwise known as a halfway house, and will transfer from this institution (FDC Philadelphia) on May 2, 2024. After the transfer, the inmate will be located at Bronx Community Correctional Center in Bronx, New York.”
The facility, located at 2534 Creston Avenue, Bronx, NY, has 196 beds and houses men and women.
Bronx Community Correctional Center
It’s unclear whether the Bronx Community Corrections Center will facilitate Bronfman’s vegan diet.
It is anticipated that she will be required to be gainfully employed during her stay. If any of our readers have an opening for a position for Clare in or around the NYC area, please let her know.
She comes highly recommended by administrators at the Philadelphia prison, where they allowed her to clean their administrative offices.
The good news for Bronfman comes on the heels of yesterday’s ruling by Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis that he was not going to reduce her sentence.
At the halfway house, she will be free, with permission, to leave the facility by day, and collaborate with her lawyers on how to help her guide, philosopher and friend, Keith Alan Raniere, who is serving the last 97 years of his 120 year sentence at USP Tucson. The heiress will have to return to the facility at night and bunk down with her brethren.
Because money talks in halfway houses, a woman with money may have her own private room.
The Next Best Place to Being Home
According to the Bronx Community Correctional Center:
“A primary responsibility of facility staff is helping residents obtain employment. The staff meets this obligation through employment counseling, job training, a resource directory, business contact network, and a comprehensive system of monitoring resident job search activity. The facility maintains cooperative agreements with local Bronx agencies to ensure residents are provided with every opportunity to obtain employment.”
Bronfman will have to request a pass to leave the facility when she goes outside, for a walk, a run, to meet friends who help Raniere, their mutual leader, get out of prison.
If she violates any of the house rules, she can be sent back to prison.
She will definitely see her attorney, Arthur Aidela, who is in NYC, who represents her as a defendant in a civil lawsuit lodged by some 70 former NXIVM members, who claim she used her wealth to help Raniere cause them harm. Aidala also represents Raniere in his attack on his conviction, based on Raniere’s claim that the FBI altered and planted evidence on his hard drive and camera card.
It is unclear if Bronfman is barred from communicating with a list of NXIVM members, something that the terms of her probation require. However, she is not yet on probation. She is not barred from communicating with Raniere’s power of attorney, Suneel Chakravorty, who has doggedly fought to bring Raniere’s claims of FBI tampering to light.
If anyone would like to contact her about employment or to strike up an old friendship, she can be reached at 718-561-4155 starting next Thursday.
Clare can walk outside, though for limited times and pending halfway house staff approval.
Typically, a stay at a halfway house is six months, so it appears Clare, whose term of custody ends on June 29, 2025, could begin BOP-supervised home confinement beginning in October, where she will likely complete her sentence.
