Actor Allison Mack Begins 3-Year Sentence At Dublin Prison

Dublin CA

16 September, 2021

12:05 PM

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DUBLIN, CA — Former "Smallville" actor Allison Mack began this week a three-year prison sentence at Dublin's Federal Correctional Institution, NBC New York reported. Mack began her sentence early Monday at the low-security facility that houses 726 women after pleading guilty this summer to racketeering conspiracy and racketeering for her role in cultlike group Nxivm (pronounced nex-i-um). Nxivm purported to offer a mentorship group for women, according to CNN and a statement from the U.S. Attorney's Office. Instead, women were exploited sexually and for labor, prosecutors alleged at the time of Mack's arrest in 2018. The Albany-based organization had centers in Mexico, Canada and South America and resembled a pyramid scheme, prosecutors said. Each course cost thousands of dollars and members were encouraged to buy more classes and recruit other people to climb the ladder, prosecutors said. Nxivm was spearheaded by Keith Raniere, who was sentenced to 120 years in prison and convicted of racketeering charges, CNN reported. Mack recruited women for Nxivm. Mack could have spent 14 to 17.5 years behind bars, according to sentencing guidelines, but prosecutors asked for a more lenient sentence for her cooperation in the case, CNN reported. She apologized to victims in a letter to the court this summer and said that her role in Nxivm was "the biggest mistake and regret" of her life, NBC New York reported. The Dublin prison also housed actors Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin in recent years for their roles in the college admission scandal, in which parents facilities the admission of students to prestigious universities after posing as athletes. Read more from NBC New York.