Operation Nest Egg was an international law enforcement initiative aimed at dismantling an online network dedicated to the distribution and trade of child pornography.
Launched in February 2008, the operation was a collaborative effort involving multiple law enforcement agencies, including the U.S. Department of Justice, the U.S.
This caused periodic downtime which prompted the site admins to move the hosting to Atomic Colo in Minnesota.
This also meant that evidence and discovery were limited to activities directly related to The Cache instead of material from the defendants homes, which in some cases was worse.
[2] Despite this, DeBrota brought a postal inspector to the stand who testified about the material seized from Roger Loughry's house which contained videos of men having sex with underage girls.