Marc Collins-Rector

Collins-Rector and his business partners, Chad Shackley and Brock Pierce, operated DEN out of a Los Angeles mansion. There, they held parties attended by Hollywood's gay A-list.^[2] At those parties, Collins-Rector and others were alleged to have engaged in sexual assaults against teenaged boys.^[7]

In August 2000, a New Jersey federal grand jury indicted Collins-Rector on criminal charges that he had transported minors across state lines for the purpose of having sex with them.^[8] After his indictment, Collins-Rector fled to Spain together with Shackley and Pierce. Interpol arrested the three men on May 17, 2002, in a house in the Spanish city of Marbella. Shackley and Pierce were released without being criminally charged.^[2] Guns, machetes and child pornography were found in the house.^[7]

Collins-Rector fought extradition proceedings for two years before returning to the United States, where he pleaded guilty to eight charges of child enticement and registered as a sex offender.^[9] He admitted luring five minors across state lines for sexual purposes.^[10] He received credit for time that he had served in a Spanish jail and was registered as a sex offender under a weekly supervision.^[10]

In 2006, a U.S. District Court granted Collins-Rector special permission to go to the United Kingdom to receive treatment for a brain tumor.^[11] He subsequently renounced his US citizenship and has not since returned to the United States.^[12] In 2007, he was photographed in London, and in 2008 was living in the Dominican Republic.^[13] As of 2014^[update], he lives in Antwerp and uses the names "Mark Collins" and "Morgan Von Phoenix".^[2]

Collins-Rector was a silent partner in the MMORPG service company IGE, which was founded by ex-DEN VP Pierce - who was chairman of the Bitcoin Foundation.^[6][14] IGE initially used an address in the city of Marbella, Spain, where Collins-Rector, Shackley and Pierce shared a villa until it was raided by Interpol in 2002.^[15][16]