Ezra Marcus

They were like, yeah, this is the romance of New York is some creepy rich older guy like brings you in a van to a party and you do coke in his crazy mansion.

And like, maybe he gives you a bag.

A quote from a girl who spent time there that I put in the story was like, every girl who's put in that house thought she was Lana Del Rey.

The self-narrativized romance of the sleaziness of the instance.

It was obvious that these guys were like,

sleazy freaks.

But to a large extent, a lot of the girls who were going there were kind of like laughing at them.

And then they got increasingly freaked out as they started to see the way that these guys were treating their friend.

They were doing a lot of different things.

Will came out of this sort of hedge fund that he'd been working on with his dad.

that in sort of complicated ways seemingly was fraudulent.

They were in Switzerland.

There were these sort of complicated ownership structures where the money was being moved around in ways that was... They were accused of moving it around in fraudulent ways.

But also there was this element of sort of like what we would see in New York where they would throw these parties and there would be girls there and they would give fancy gifts to the guys where they wanted to invest with them.

So what they were actually doing basically was like

trying to invest in things once they get to New York.

And they were telling people they had a fund.

But what they're accused of actually doing was basically using that to target crypto asset holders to extort them, to get them to hand over their

pass words to their wallet.

Somebody who I spoke to, not the main victim in the case, somebody else had a few meetings with them.