ALBANY – NXIVM leader Keith Raniere once hoped to attract millions of loyal disciples, including candidates running for high-level political office.

In the wake of his conviction on all charges in a Brooklyn federal courtroom in June, some of his former top loyalists have far meager ambitions: A high-school degree. A new identification. The right to leave home without electrical monitoring.

Filings in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn show Raniere's co-defendants – all present or former top NXIVM officials — made all of those requests to Senior U.S. District Judge Nicholas Garaufis, with varying levels of success.

On Aug. 15, Seagram's heiress Clare Bronfman, NXIVM's director of operations who helped bankroll the company and defense costs, asked Garaufis through her lawyers to lessen conditions of her bail. Bronfman has been on home detention on $100 million bond since her July 2018 arrest. She pleaded guilty in April to two counts: conspiracy to conceal and harbor illegal immigrants for financial gain and fraudulent use of identification.

Bronfman, 40, who has a home in Clifton Park but has been staying in her Manhattan apartment, asked the judge to allow her more than the five hours per week she is currently permitted to leave her home so she can, among other duties, take a high school equivalency exam known as TASC (Test Assessing Secondary Completion).

"Prior to the initiation of this case, Ms. Bronfman had only completed school through the 10th grade," Bronfman lawyers Kathleen Cassidy and Caroline Grosshans wrote to the judge.

They said Bronfman has been working hard to get the degree. In addition, the lawyers asked the judge to allow Bronfman more time outside her home and be able to have a curfew.

The judge allowed Bronfman to take the TASC test. He rejected the rest of her request.

On Aug. 5, former Raniere co-defendant Allison Mack, who pleaded guilty to racketeering charges, asked the judge to allow her to have access to her passport for a day so she could apply for a new government identification. The former Halfmoon resident's driver's license expired on July 29, her lawyers, William McGovern and Sean Buckley, told the judge.

The judge granted the request to Mack, 37, an actress who starred on the television show "Smallville" and became a high-ranking member of both NXIVM and Raniere's secret "master/slave" group known as the "The Vow" and DOS (Dominus Obsequious Sororium), which in Latin translates to "Lord/Master of the Obedient Female Companions."

And Garaufis also agreed to grant a request from NXIVM bookkeeper Kathy Russell, 61, of Halfmoon, who pleaded guilty to visa fraud. In July, Russell's lawyer, Justine Harris, asked the judge to allow Russell a bail modification so she could attend a family funeral in Jacksonville, Fla.

"Ms. Russell's family needs her support at this very difficult time," Harris told the judge.

The judge was less agreeable to requests from former NXIVM president Nancy Salzman and her daughter, Lauren Salzman, both of Halfmoon, who pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy and racketeering charges earlier this year.

Lauren Salzman, 43, a former high-ranking member of NXIVM who became the government's star witness at trial, asked through her attorney in July to have her electronic monitoring removed and be able to travel outside the federal districts in Albany, Manhattan and Brooklyn.

Nancy Salzman, 65, asked the judge through her lawyers to lift her curfew and remove her electronic monitoring, saying because of the end of Raniere's trial "many of the reasons justifying these conditions no longer exist."

The judge said no.

Raniere, 58, known within NXIVM as "Vanguard," was convicted of all seven counts he faced at his trial, including racketeering, racketeering conspiracy, forced labor and sex trafficking charges. He faces the possibility of life in prison when sentenced.

His sentencing and those of all the co-defendants have been adjourned indefinitely.