With the Pegasus project and all that it entails, I believe we can now see quite clearly the MO of these fuckers.

What they need is

1) a place to display the merchandise (children)

2) a place to receive the buyers

3) a place where the adults can view the merchandise discretely

4) a place to pick up the merchandise (tbd, I still like the tunnels, other methods could raise suspicion)

5) A friendly neighborhood ANC

In the case of Pegasus they did just that: buy a front - the museum - to receive potential buyers. Take control of a place for display (Trolley Park, controlled by Alefantis acquaintance Dubeshter), take control of the neighborhood by buying other properties (Alefantis' Blue House fronting Pegasus, the suspicious white house next to it(?), Dubeshter and his partner John Henderson's extensive 11th street properties) and, finally, take control of neighborhood management by installing ANC's (Dubeshter).

And what they did at Pegasus is almost a mirror-image of what they did at Comet Ping Pong. Display the merchandise (ping pong rooms), have a place close to receive buyers (e.g. Buck's), control the neighborhood by owning, controlling or buying properties (Besta Pizza, Politics & Prose, the McCullough/Rockefeller place etc.) and control the ANC's (this is why they HAD to get rid of Frank Winstead by gaslighting and fear mongering).

This MO is by now so clearly established that I think we may try some deductive reasoning and see if they have deployed the same method before, and where.