Ezra Marcus
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And that it was because they wanted more money.
They just basically wanted him to hand over his crypto.
Will DuPlessis is in jail and John has bailed out.
They're facing really serious kidnapping and torture charges and extortion.
Their trial is upcoming.
It's going to be, as of now, it's scheduled for sometime later this year.
I assume it'll probably get pushed back a bunch of times.
But it's going to be a really interesting case where, on the one hand,
what they will argue, what the defendants will argue is that it's absurd for this guy to claim that he was a captive given that he could leave the house.
He left the house any number of times.
That he left the house without them.
That he was, even the night of that he ran out of the house, he was at a club with them.
That it's absurd to call him this sort of kidnap victim when he was willingly going along with what they all thought was a consensual arrangement where they were messing with him.
And what the government will argue is that he was living in fear.
They had threatened him.
They had physically tortured him.
He'd been tased, all these things.
And that he was terrified.
They had claimed they had, as they wrote in their manifesto, that they were targeting foreigners who had dirty money and that he believed they could have him killed and all this stuff.