The money is the hard part, the contacts aren't that hard to acquire. (I will refrain from fully explaining because this isn't an advertisement for hiring mercenaries, if you ever really need to know, you'll figure it out.) You just have to be careful, you don't want to take out a billboard downtown and talking to certain people amounts to the same thing. And I'm not necessarily saying have Lucien assassinated, just extract Cherry from the situation. My guess is that, unless he's very well connected and more afraid of his boss than death, a half dozen guys with assault rifles, Kevlar and laser sights suddenly showing up in his bedroom at 4 am would make him very cooperative and compliant and that Cherry and anyone else who want to leave would be showered, medically assessed and sitting down to a nice breakfast by 7. But it is NeonGhosts story to tell. I'm just thinking about what I would do if I had piles of money and needed to solve a problem when commonplace solutions - like going to the police, weren't working.