[Hegemony Cricket]

"The illegal network of tunnels and rooms underneath Nicholas' Laguna Hills estate..."

Huh? Illegal why? I mean, it sounds like illegal activities took place there, but this sentence makes it sound like the tunnels themselves were illegal. No building permit, maybe?

[HamiltonJay]

The only thing that could be illegal about them is if they violated zoning laws when building them, which seems to be alleged... but that’s about it.

[Ditto]

No building permit, maybe?

That would do it.

I knew a building developer who added a little 'love shack' on top of a 10 story office building he put up that did not appear in the buliding floorplan.

After a couple of years, the local fire marshal who had it out for this guy anyway found out about it and all hell broke lose --- especially from the guy's wife. ;~))