@darktravis:
Most of the PLF live in Deika City so it's not strange at all.
That's fair, 90% of Deika are PLF members, but they are supposed to be 100K strong in Japan infiltrated in all scales of society(someone should be able to hear some rumor about a big operation from part of the Safety Commission), not only seems kind counterproductive to keep all the head honchos in one place instead of all across the country fortifying their position.
I doubt that he simply had the means to just spy on whoever he wanted at any time, espcially with the Safety Commission in the know and wary of him (being able to spy on Hawks alone involved him getting consensually bugged).
If he could track the whereabouts of the League while they were fighting Machia he probably could keep some kind of info network on key figures.
Sacrificing all of the resources to retain the asset that will let him recoup his losses many times over seems fairly legit to me.
The point being, how fast could he regrow a powerful group to support him in gaining the assets to mass product the Eri bullet.