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Backpage Owners Get Aug 17 Trial Date in Arizona

xxxReporter — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 01:35:12 +0000

An Aug 17 trial is scheduled in Phoenix for Michael Lacey and James Larkin, the founders of Backpage.com, on charges they knowingly published prostitution ads and then laundered money from them. Backpage is a Dutch-owned company incorporated in Delaware and based in Texas, but it maintained its servers and bank accounts in Arizona. The site was […]

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Judge Refuses to Dismiss Federal 100-Count Indictment Against Backpage.com Operators

Sam Langhorne — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 23:54:28 +0000

A federal judge refused to dismiss a 100-count indictment against the creators of Backpage.com on Thursday, finding the indictment “goes through a long and fact-specific description of the defendants participation in a conspiracy to facilitate and promote prostitution,."

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Delaware AG Matt Denn (D) moves to shut down LLCs Behind Backpage.com

xxxReporter — Mon, 26 Nov 2018 21:55:25 +0000

Delaware Attorney General Matt Denn is using powers recently granted to his office in a bid to dissolve the legal entities behind Backpage.com – a classified advertising website once called “the world’s top online brothel.” The Democrat filed a petition last week asking the courts to cancel the certificates of formation to four limited liability companies associated with the […]

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SF Chronicle: Sex workers returned to streets after Backpage shuttered

xxxReporter — Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:56:09 +0000

This article from the San Francisco Chronicle contains few surprises to readers of MikeSouth.com, but it’s a riveting look at the devastation wrought by the terrible FOSTA/SESTA legislation and the closure of Backpage.com and similar sites San Francisco — The government shutdown of Backpage.com this year sought to curtail the type of sex-for-sale classified ads that […]

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Backpage.com execs get January 2020 trial date in Phoenix

Voice For Reason — Mon, 30 Apr 2018 23:58:02 +0000

A tentative trial date has been set for two founders and five employees of Backpage.com in a case in which the classified advertising website has been accused of knowingly running ads for illicit sexual services. Michael Lacey, James Larkin and five employees of the site were scheduled for trial on Jan. 15, 2020 in a […]

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Slate looks at life for sex workers ‘After Backpage’

Sam Langhorne — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 18:58:29 +0000

This is an excellent piece on the post-Backpage / post-FOSTA world by April Glaser. I’ve excepted two bits here, and encourage readers to follow the link and read all of it at Slate. When Olivia got a text from a co-worker a couple weeks ago that Backpage.com had been seized by the FBI and shut down, […]

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Backpage co-founder James Larkin released on USD$1 million bond

PornReporter — Tue, 17 Apr 2018 04:34:45 +0000

Phoenix, Ariz.. — James Larkin, co-founder of Backpage.com, was released on a $1 million bond Monday. He had been jailed for the last 10 days on charges of facilitating prostitution AZCentral reports that Larkin, the former publisher of the Phoenix-based New Times alternative weekly, had been held in federal custody since April 6 after he was arrested while […]

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Sex Workers: ‘Progressive’ Activists Like Victoria Pannell Think You Are Trash

Sam Langhorne — Sun, 15 Apr 2018 19:18:09 +0000

This infuriated me. Actress Victoria Pannell is a darling of the socially conscious left. A Democrat, “activist” and SAG/AFTRA National Boated Member. A youth organizer for the Women’s March. In 2011, Victoria Pannell was named the first national leader for Youth Move, a 47-city network of kids which was an offshoot of the Rev. Al […]

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Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer takes plea deal, agrees to testify against other site officials

Voice For Reason — Sat, 14 Apr 2018 03:38:15 +0000

Carl Ferrer, chief executive of Backpage.com, which was seized by the federal government one week ago, pleaded guilty on Thursday to charges in California and Texas, and officials unsealed plea agreements made last week in an Arizona federal court. Ferrer, 57, pleaded guilty to one charge of conspiracy and three counts of money laundering in California, and to […]

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Out of 93 charges, Backpage not hit with a Single Charge of Sex Trafficking

XXX Insider — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 22:07:16 +0000

SESTA claims to be about stopping sex trafficking. In fact, the name of the full bill is Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (or SESTA for short). Many insiders said all along this bill was about getting Backpage so when the 93 indictments came to fruition everyone was shocked that not a single one was for […]

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