Michael Lacey Archives - Mike South The institute for the advance study of insensitivity and pornography Tue, 11 Jul 2023 07:21:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://i0.wp.com/mikesouth.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Michael Lacey Archives - Mike South 32 32 1788040 Backpage Owners Get Aug 17 Trial Date in Arizona https://mikesouth.com/legal/backpage-owners-get-aug-17-trial-date-in-arizona-55580/ https://mikesouth.com/legal/backpage-owners-get-aug-17-trial-date-in-arizona-55580/#respond Wed, 26 Feb 2020 01:35:12 +0000 https://mikesouth.com/?p=55580 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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]]> https://mikesouth.com/legal/backpage-owners-get-aug-17-trial-date-in-arizona-55580/feed/ 0 55580 Backpage.com execs get January 2020 trial date in Phoenix https://mikesouth.com/legal/january-2020-trial-date-set-for-backpage-com-execs-in-arizona-24664/ https://mikesouth.com/legal/january-2020-trial-date-set-for-backpage-com-execs-in-arizona-24664/#respond Mon, 30 Apr 2018 23:58:02 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=24664 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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]]> https://mikesouth.com/legal/january-2020-trial-date-set-for-backpage-com-execs-in-arizona-24664/feed/ 0 24664 Out of 93 charges, Backpage not hit with a Single Charge of Sex Trafficking https://mikesouth.com/legal/out-of-93-charges-backpage-not-hit-with-a-single-charge-of-sex-trafficking-23858/ https://mikesouth.com/legal/out-of-93-charges-backpage-not-hit-with-a-single-charge-of-sex-trafficking-23858/#comments Mon, 09 Apr 2018 22:07:16 +0000 http://mikesouth.com/?p=23858 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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