and just to steel man the case for why that *might* be a reasonable thing to do (it's not, but bear with me) pierce was under 18 when he founded the pedophile ring company (DEN, look it up, there's a whole movie about it called An Open Secret) with a bunch of 30 something sex offenders and while he ended his run as a co-owner of that company well over the age of 18 and ensconced in an apt. in marbella filled with guns and child porn, it's pretty clear that pierce was both a perpetrator and a victim.
unlike his co-conspirators who were hit with massive charges for child abuse pierce was never charged (though he did pay out some very large settlements to a not insignificant number of accusers)
i run through almost the whole sordid history in my post about eric adams (bc pierce is one of adams's financial backers and buddies)
https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/eric-adams-yet-another-crypto-success
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