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A federal jury found two former Backpage.com executives guilty of conspiring to use the website to facilitate prostitution and a third guilty of a financial crime related to the classified...
PHOENIX (AP) — Michael Lacey, a founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com, was convicted Thursday on a single count of money laundering and acquitted on another. But an Arizona jury deadlocked on 84 other counts against him in a case that alleged he participated in a scheme to sell sex ads, leading the judge to declare a mistrial.
Backpage.com co-founder Michael Lacey and four former employees are on trial again after the first prosecution ended in a mistrial in 2021.
Prosecutors allege Backpage’s operators illegally funneled nearly $45 million through multiple companies and created websites to get around banks that refused to process their transactions.
PHOENIX – A federal judge on Tuesday halted the criminal trial of former executives and employees of the Backpage website, saying the government, in presenting its case, unfairly tainted the jury...
Today, the Justice Department announced that Backpage’s co-founder and CEO, Carl Ferrer, 57, of Frisco, Texas, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to facilitate prostitution using a facility in interstate or foreign commerce and to engage in money laundering.
PHOENIX (CN) — Delayed by three weeks after the death of a main co-defendant, the federal prostitution-facilitation and money laundering case against former Backpage.com owners and employees is nearing opening arguments. Jury selection for the trial, set to span three months, begins Tuesday morning.
Phoenix, AZ — A federal jury in Phoenix convicted three former owners of Backpage.com yesterday of multiple counts of promoting prostitution business enterprises and multiple counts of money laundering, including conspiracy offenses.
Backpage.com was shut down in 2018 after it was seized by the US Department of Justice. CEO, Carl Ferrer, admitted charges including conspiracy to facilitate prostitution and money laundering. His classified ads website was, simply put, a nexus of child sex trafficking in America.
The lawsuit claims Salesforce built customer tools for Backpage, upselling the now-defunct website on higher priced packages and additional services. Marc Benioff. Frank Muldoon | CNBC. Fifty...