Happy Monday, I’m Eriq Gardner.

Welcome back to The Rainmaker, my private newsletter focused on the legal maneuvering inside Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Washington, and Wall Street.

This week, I look at alleged Nazis on the blockchain—and what that has to do with intellectual property and the First Amendment. Also, why did an F.B.I. agent draft a probable cause statement against Brad Pitt? I’ll be breaking some news on that story, below. All that plus updates on Michael Jackson, Donald Trump, 10,000 bored apes, and why this week’s biggest legal loser is Phil Mickelson…

• No legal document was more significant this week than everything related to the search warrant upon Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago. We now know that F.B.I. agents were hunting for classified documents, but there’s still plenty we don’t understand, including the scope and status of the investigation, and most importantly, whether Trump will be charged with a crime. The search warrant is a piece of the puzzle, but so too is the still-unsealed supporting affidavit...

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The Bored Apes, for anyone still unfamiliar, are algorithmically-generated images of cartoon apes, immortalized on the Ethereum blockchain, that have become wildly popular with digital collectors and celebrities including Justin Bieber, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jimmy Fallon, Tom Brady and Mark Cuban. Even with the recent downswing in the crypto market, BAYC’s 10,000 digital apes are collectively valued at some $4 billion, making Yuga Lab’s founders, Greg Solano and Wylie Aronow, incredibly wealthy—at least on digital paper...