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If you’re new here, this is where we break down the most intense federal operations.

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Before we get into today’s investigation, I need you to do something.

Look at the person next to you.

Now, imagine someone offering them $7,500 for 3 weeks of easy work.

Sounds legit, right? That’s exactly what 521 people thought before they disappeared forever.

Today, we’re exposing the billionaire hunting club that operated for 3 years without anyone knowing.

How did they get away with it? How did one man survive? And how did the FBI execute one of the most dangerous raids in modern history? If you’re ready for the full tactical breakdown, smash that like button right now.

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Let’s dive in.

March 2021, a private investment group calling themselves the Vanguard Circle purchases Eden K, a 42 acre island sitting 31 miles off Florida’s coastline.

The sale price, $63 million dot, but here’s what’s weird.

This isn’t some billionaire’s vacation getaway.

Over the next 18 months, they pour another $77 million into construction.

What are they building? underground detention cells, reinforced concrete, soundproof, a militaryra surveillance network with thermal imaging, a private airirst strip for unmarked aircraft, barracks for a 20man security force.

And here’s the disturbing part, a crematorium.

What kind of resort needs a crematorium? Drop your first reaction in the comments.

The Vanguard Circle wasn’t your typical billionaire boys club.

15 members, combined net worth over $240 billion.

We’re talking CEOs of defense contractors, hedge fund legends, tech moguls who sold companies for billions, oil barons from the Middle East.

Their founder, Vincent Castellano, age 47, former intelligence contractor turned tech billionaire.

This guy built his empire selling surveillance tech to governments, the same technology he’d later used to track human prey.

According to communications FBI intercepted later, Castellano told his inner circle, “Money can buy anything.

Power, influence, even permission to do what society calls forbidden.

We’re not just rich.

We’re untouchable.

And I’m going to prove it.

” How did they prove it? They created the culling, their term for hunting humans like animals.

Here’s how the operation worked.

And trust me, it’s sickening.

The Vanguard Circle employed acquisition specialists, basically human traffickers in expensive suits.

These recruiters targeted specific groups, homeless veterans, undocumented workers, people in rehab facilities, anyone vulnerable and isolated.

The pitch was always the same.

Private luxury resort needs temporary workers.

3 weeks, $7,500 cash.

All expenses paid.

No background check required.

For someone living on the streets or working under the table, that’s life-changing money.

Between 2021 and 2024, they transported 521 people to Eden K.

None of them were going to work at a resort.

Victims would arrive by private boat, immediately taken to underground cells, held for 72 hours with minimal food and water.

Psychological torture recordings played on repeat.

You are prey.

The hunt begins at dawn.

Survive or die.

On the third day, they be dragged out.

Given the rules, you have 72 hours.

Reach the southern extraction point.

If you make it, you win $150,000.

New identity freedom.

But if we catch you, they never finished that sentence.

They didn’t need to.

28 hunts over 3 years.

521 people released into that jungle.

Want to guess how many reached the extraction point? Zero.

Not one dot.

The members had every possible advantage.

Military drones with thermal cameras.

Night vision goggles, trained attack dogs, weapons ranging from crossbows to sniper rifles, and the victims barefoot, unarmed, terrified.

Real talk, is this hunting or is this just murder with extra steps? Let me know what you think below.

But here’s what made it even more twisted.

They kept score digital leaderboards tracking kills.

awards for most creative method.

One member, a German industrialist, was notorious for using a compound bow exclusively, called himself the traditionalist.

Everything was documented, photos, videos, detailed logs.

They called it the legacy wall, a digital gallery displaying every victim, every hunt, every execution.

521 faces staring back from screens.

Bodies were disposed of with corporate efficiency, weighted down, dumped in water over 800 ft deep, or cremated on site.

Evidence eliminated.

Families left with missing persons reports that went nowhere until hunt number 29 until they grabbed someone who fought back.

Cameron Drake, 34 years old, Navy Seal with three combat deployments.

expert in survival, evasion, resistance, escape.

Literally trained for this exact scenario.

But in 2024, Cameron was homeless in Miami.

PTSD had cost him everything.

His marriage, his job, his apartment.

When recruiters offered him $7,500 for construction work, he was desperate enough to take it.

The boat ride to Eden K took four hours.

Cameron’s training kicked in immediately.

Something was wrong.

The crew was too disciplined, too quiet.

Former military for sure.

When they locked him in that underground cell, Cameron didn’t panic.

Seals don’t panic.

They assess.

They plan.

They execute.

For 72 hours, he memorized guard patterns, studied the facility layout, prepared midly for what was coming.

When they released him into the jungle, Cameron went full tactical.

Hour one to six.

Build traps using jungle materials.

Punge pits, trip wires, ambush positions.

Hour nine, first contact.

A member named Claus Simmerman, German billionaire, net worth $19 billion, stepped in Cameron’s trap.

Compound fracture.

Cameron took his rifle, tactical vest, and radio over the radio.

Target is armed.

Target has military training.

Request backup.

Castellano’s response.

Deploy secondary team.

Lethal force authorized.

End this now.

But Cameron didn’t run.

He attacked.

Hour 21.

Ambushed two more members near their communications hub.

Took them down non-lethally.

He needed them as witnesses.

More importantly, he grabbed their encrypted communications device.

That device would change everything.

Hour 34.

Cameron took a sniper round through the shoulder.

Kept moving.

Hour 47.

Second hit.

Rifle round in his left thigh.

Still moving.

At hour 68, for hours from the supposed extraction point, Cameron intercepted radio chatter.

They were planning to execute anyone who reached it.

The extraction point was a trap.

There was never going to be a winner.

Oo.

Cameron did what seals do best.

He adapted.

Dot.

He swam 6 miles through open ocean.

Gunshot wounds bleeding.

Hypothermic, barely conscious, fighting currents, and the very real possibility of sharks.

Dot.

He reached the Florida Keys at 4:17 a.

m.

Collapsed on a beach near a fishing dock.

Dot.

A local fisherman found him at sunrise barely breathing.

Dot Cameron’s first words.

Call FBI.

Eden K.

31 miles offshore.

They’re hunting people.

19 prisoners still alive in cells.

Get them out now.

FBI special agent Victoria Cross arrived at the hospital within the hour.

Cameron and stories sounded impossible, but he had proof.

The encrypted device, GPS coordinates, photos, names.

FBI’s cyber division cracked the encryption in 6 hours.

What they found was damning.

Communication logs between all 15 members detailed.

Hunt schedules financial wire transfers totaling $140 million liv security feed showing 19 people locked in cells in the legacy wall.

521 victims cataloged like trophies.

Agent Cross made the call.

We have active hostages.

Next hunt scheduled in 3 days.

We raided dawn.

Those 19 people are coming home alive.

The operation required every federal resource available.

FBI hostage rescue team HRT Coast Guard special operations IC tactical units for international suspects Navy SEALs on standby.

Federal marshals for arrest November 8, 2024 for colon 32 a.

m.

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3 Coast Guard cutters cut through dark water toward Eden K.

Radio silence.

Running lights off.

Approaching from three different angles.

Dot.

At Homestead Air Reserve base for helicopters spun up.

Two carrying 40 HRT operators.

Two loaded with tactical medical teams and equipment.

5:41 a.

m.

All units in position.

All teams.

This is command.

Green light.

Execute.

Execute.

Execute.

Chaos erupted.

Helicopters screamed over the island.

Fast ropes deployed.

Operators repelled onto the main compound.

Flashbang shattered windows.

FBI.

Federal agents.

Hands up.

On the ground.

Coast Guard team stormed three beaches simultaneously.

50 agents sweeping inland surrounding the compound, cutting off all exits.

Island security.

12 armed contractors tried to respond, but they weren’t ready for this level of force.

They surrendered in under four minutes.

Inside the luxury compound, nine Vanguard Circle members were sleeping.

Silk sheets, climate controlled rooms, oblivious until FBI kicked their doors in.

Vincent Castellano in designer pajamas tried to play the power card.

Do you have any idea who I am? My lawyers will.

Agent Cross cut him off cold.

Vincent Castellano, you’re under arrest for 184 counts of firstdegree murder.

You have the right to remain silent.

Use it.

In the underground facility, FBI found all 19 prisoners, ages 19 to 52, malnourished, traumatized, hours away from being released into the jungle to die.

FBI, you’re safe.

We’re taking you home.

One woman, a mother of three from San Antonio, collapsed crying.

My kids, can I see my kids? Yes.

Agent Cross told her, “You’re seeing them today.

” All 19 survived.

All 19 rescued.

The evidence was overwhelming.

The legacy wall alone documented 521 kills.

Videos showed everything.

There was no defense.

The arrests, nine captured on the island.

Six tracked internationally and extradited for remain in non-extradition countries with active warrants.

The trials.

Vincent Castellano’s trial lasted 4 months.

Prosecutors played video of him executing a 23-year-old veteran.

Jury deliberated 37 minutes.

Guilty on all 184 counts.

dot judges sentence death penalty.

Federal execution point 12 other members received death sentences.

Two got life without parole for cooperating.

One took his own life before trial.

Total assets seized.

47 billion transferred to victim compensation fund.

Cameron Drake testified at every single trial.

Today, he’s rebuilt his life, works with homeless veterans, speaks of military events, wrote a memoir, the 19 rescued prisoners, all receiving ongoing support, all alive, all free.

Eden K was demolished.

The island now holds a memorial with 521 names engraved in stone.

So, here’s my question for you.

Do you think there are more islands like this out there? more hunting grounds we haven’t found yet.

Drop your honest thoughts below.

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Cameron Drake survived because he refused to die.

The FBI acted because they refused to let wealth mean immunity.

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