Ezra Marcus

I mean, it was just sort of Looney Tunes.

The manifesto was taken at face value, just a product of extreme delusion.

It laid out their plan to essentially fight against criminals and pedophiles by targeting enemies of the country.

And they were going to like find people with illicit Bitcoin and take it from them.

It was this sort of like fantasy of delusion.

patriotic, extrajudicial revenge from the sort of cowboy perspective of we're going to be these vigilante secret agents.

I mean, it was like kids talking about fantasy of being a spy and they typed it out and left it in their house and the government found it and used it to indict them for doing that.

Just picture like people I spoke to who visited the house.

They're flown there by private jet.

As soon as they get off the jet, Will and John's driver pulls up in their Jeep that they've outfitted with like a gun turret.

They go to the house that everyone's given fatigues to put on and guns are handed out and they get a big bag of cocaine and they rip it open with a Bowie knife and they're using the knife to do lines.

It's this like fever dream of drug fueled military cosplay.

It's like,

The craziest guy you know at 7am after doing lines all night.

Yeah.

You know, it wasn't that they knew to go to the Brandy Melville store, but one of their club promoter fixer guys had cultivated a sort of friendship with a number of the young Brandy Melville store employees.

And then just like a stream of early 20s, late teens, young women.

Yeah.

And the flip side of that is the Brandy girls themselves.

I mean, I talked to a number of them.