So, what you are looking for is the pattern of behavior that matches the cult behavior. Remember Eric Schneiderman? Nobody ever said he was in the cult, but he does exactly what the cult is. Part of what you have to understand is the creation of artificial cults. Tavistock created The Process Church of Final Judgment which was created to infiltrate other cults. They infiltrated Scientology, the Manson Cult, Santa Muerta Cults, VooDoo cults, etc, then took them over from the inside out. What you have is an operation in the intelligence community whereby your buy in is by creating a cult. It doesn't have to be religious. You just need a following.  https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/eric-schneiderman-talk-consent-angers-kinky-sex-enthusiasts-article-1.3979235 The cults are dupes. There is no all powerful cult. Though some are plenty more powerful than others. There are just compartmentalized operations that share common iconography and mimeticry. But cults have the ability to control behavior to the extreme, so they are extremely useful when needing to operate in secret. So, SNCTM get doxxed, NXIVM gets rolled up, a lot of cults are being exposed and what you are seeing are the commonalities between all of these cults and non-profit organizations. As a result, cults are very often intelligence operations. So, Bronfman installs a keylogger on her father's computer, but they are also investigating people they are spying on. They are a private intelligence operation and probably dabbling in blackmail. So, they start getting a treasure trove of information and this is why they are arrested. Other cults are left alone, but this was a blackmail operation in progress that has it all. I assume Raniere wanted blackmail, but he could have been after something else. Either way, their investigations were targeted and they were the result of the keylogging. U.S. District Chief Judge Gary L. Sharpe; U.S. Magistrate Randolph F. Treece; U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Robert E. Littlefield Jr., and U.S. Senior Judge Thomas J. McAvoy. It starts to look like a blueprint of Scientology, except that they were caught. But... they have been held in limbo for the longest time. To me, these NXIVM cases are a barometer in that nobody wants to expose the cult/NGO game, but they screwed over the Clintons and a lot of other power players merely by spying, in the first place.  As to Schumer, specifically, he was likely standing in NXIVM's way, as they hired Canaprobe to investigate him. Schneidermann was already fielding complaints FOR NXIVM, seemingly running a limited hangout for them. Was Chuck Schumer asking for too much of a payoff for protection? Schumer was running a racket to intimidate banks with an army of short sellers behind him. He got Indymac shut down. Schumer is running a racket of his own and it looks like NXIVM was looking to strong arm him. Maybe he demanded tribute? Maybe he blocked some of their business ventures? The others investigated were squarely in the way of NXIVM. What is weird is that Canaprobe purportedly provided false banking statements. That might not be true. Schumer is getting dark money through Majority Forward and if NXIVM could trace this, they could find the source of the dark money and either bribe Schumer or pay into the right racket, themselves, to achieve the type of legitimacy Scientology received. Either way, the world gets a glimpse at some real spy versus spy stuff that doesn't resemble anything you see in the movies. The Canaprobe lawsuit is not fake news. NXIVM had them investigate their enemies. Schumer was one of their targets. Were the bank records real or not? I believe they were disallowed as evidence, but it sounds like they were the trail to other evidence that could be authenticated in court. NXIVM now has the Democrats in a weird position, resulting in their arrest, but it probably wouldn't have been exposed if Roger Stone hadn't gotten involved. It is possible that they hired Roger Stone to help take on some figures on the left, but it was the interaction he needed to learn more about what was really happening. Stone, then, passes on this intel, whereby a group acts upon it to get a slew of leaks which surface a few months later, all at once. From Podesta emails, to DNC emails, to Panama Papers, to NGP VAN, etc. Then, someone obfuscated the source by sending it out across multiple channels, even though they likely all came from one place; given the timing of the releases. Roger Stone, later, tells Bannon that Assange cut a deal with the Clintons, which would explain why the keys were never dropped for the Ecuador files and others. Bannon, who has been accused of being controlled opposition by many, then leaked that email. I believe Mueller is still looking for the faction that orchestrated these leaks. I believe that is why he is harassing Stone & Co, and I believe them to be working with someone within Naval Intelligence to attempt to clean up some dirty characters. But, what is the likelihood that most of these factions are competing cults created by the intelligence community? Pretty good. There may be no good guy, at all, and Wikileaks was a protection racket all along, too, run by GCHQ.  Alternatively, there could be a couple of good guys around that aren't strong enough to effect a change, but are still pushing and they need our help. Beyond that, there could be a plan in place to affect these arrests going into the 202 election for a sure win... which is what I would do if I were Trump. They have been doing a good job of building momentum in arrests of high profile pedophiles, but nothing that satisfies me, yet.... just enough to keep me hopeful. Either way, I will be watching the NXIVM cases because they are going to tell us which way the wind blows for a while to come.