I originally almost put the information from my (perhaps unfortunately titled)
Marc Collins-Rector thread here...
Boys who had been paid for vague jobs with the company under the condition that they agree to attend parties at the M&C estate began telling stories of sexual abuse at the hands of Collins-Rector, Shackley, and Pierce, as well as other highly placed Hollywood figures.
Rather than bump that one up, let me add something here that I've noticed after doing some more digging around: it appears that the whole story of high-finance, perversion, and video-game sweatshops is connected to a certain prestigious CIA-linked American law firm with an office in Florida. This same law firm was majorly involved in the creation of the Department of Homeland Security.
What was that again about difficulty prosecuting?
They didn't turn up again until May 2002, when a tip to Interpol led authorities to raid their luxury villa in Marbella, on the Spanish Riviera—an area British tabloids have dubbed the Costa del Crime due to its high population of English-speaking fugitives. Among the items recovered from the residence were guns, machetes, a trove of jewels, and child pornography. Pierce and Shackley were held for about a month by Spanish police and then released.
The prosecution of Collins-Rector also proved difficult. He remained in a Spanish jail for almost two years, fighting extradition, before finally being brought to the United States, where he pled guilty to eight charges of child enticement, a comparably minor offense. He was soon out of prison—receiving credit for the time he'd served in Spain. Since most of his alleged crimes took place at the mansion in Encino, it was up to L.A. County prosecutors to make any further charges stick, but the DA never took steps to do so. (The L.A. County district attorney's office refused to comment about the status of any DEN investigation.)
and was easily led off topic, even though it didn't occur to me at the time...obviously. 