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Jeff Bezos Humiliation: Amazon Employees Embroiled In Sex Trafficking Scandal
gatewaypundit ^ | December 25, 2017 | Joshua Caplan

Posted on 12/26/2017 1:31:20 AM PST by SteveH

According to a new report, Amazon employees appear to have been caught ‘purchasing services from trafficked sex workers.’

Engadget reports:

The tech industry has a clear history of sexism and misogyny, but a recent Newsweek report highlights another problem. The publication got its hands on a slew of emails sent to brothels and pimps between 2014 and 2016 that document the industry’s patronage of brothels and purchasing of services from trafficked sex workers. Among the emails, which were obtained through a public records request to the King County Prosecutor’s Office, were 67 sent from Microsoft employee email accounts, 63 from Amazon accounts and dozens more from companies like Boeing, T-Mobile, Oracleand local Seattle tech firms.

Some of the emails were collected during a 2015 sting operation that targeted sex worker review boards and resulted in the arrest of 18 individuals, including high-level Amazon and Microsoft directors. Two opted for a trial, which is currently set to begin in March.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: District of Columbia; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: amazon; bezos; districtofcolumbia; humantrafficking; jeffbezos; kingcounty; mediawingofthednc; newsweek; partisanmediashills; washingtoncompost; washingtonpost
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To: Tax-chick

The one thing that surprises me is that many are underage. I’ve never done polling on the topic, but I would have expected ages 18-21 to be in highest demand. I would also expect both customers and the places where the girls work to completely avoid children under 18, if for no other reason due to the higher legal penalties. Perhaps I’m overoptimistic or overly law-abiding.


21 posted on 12/26/2017 4:36:55 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Pollster1

Younger girls are easier to acquire and control.


22 posted on 12/26/2017 4:51:39 AM PST by Tax-chick ("It is better to have a home full of misbehaving children than a silent house."~Kevin Williamson)
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To: Enterprise
It’s human trafficking and corruption. Seize their assets.

No, it's not. It's a handful of employees from companies that have tens of thousands on staff who were caught trying to hire hookers during law enforcement entrapment scams.

23 posted on 12/26/2017 4:51:46 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Pollster1

Hookers generally start hooking in the 15-21 range, but are careful to tell their clients they’re 18+ if younger than 18. Prostitution is a pretty minor crime but underage prostitution is a major felony so there isn’t a lot of clientele for it outside the super rich and the drug alded poor.


24 posted on 12/26/2017 5:06:09 AM PST by JohnyBoy (The GOP Senate is intentionally trying to lose the majority.)
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To: SteveH

I’d half-expect Amazon to have a page for buying hookers the way it has pages for buying anything else. You know, with the photo on the left that you can zoom in, a spec sheet, colors and sizes you can order. Reviews. What other customers wound up buying...


25 posted on 12/26/2017 5:06:48 AM PST by OrangeHoof (Let Trump Be Trump. Would you rather have Hillary?)
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To: Tax-chick

I’ve run a business, but I am totally clueless on that line of work. The idea of “controlling” employees disgusts me. My people delivered exceptionally high-quality products on schedule, or they would have needed to find a new job, but that was the limit of my control over them.


26 posted on 12/26/2017 5:11:57 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: BinaryBoy

Implementation of Craigslist prototype?


27 posted on 12/26/2017 5:13:15 AM PST by imardmd1 (er hill nearby, on Golgotha. the place of the Skull, that i.<p>s translated CalvaryFiat Lux)
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To: Pollster1

Lots of people will work hard for their paycheck, and get a new job it they aren’t happy with the position. However, for all the propaganda that “sex work” is no different from a job as a bank teller, it really is different.


28 posted on 12/26/2017 5:15:38 AM PST by Tax-chick ("It is better to have a home full of misbehaving children than a silent house."~Kevin Williamson)
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To: Vigilanteman

But can a sexbot make me a sammie?
If for $15,000 I get sex, intelligent answers, no Hallmark movies, no drama, beer on request, changeable looks, never divorce AND sammies, well now...


29 posted on 12/26/2017 5:21:16 AM PST by polymuser (Its terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged today. - Chesterton)
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To: SteveH

Alexa, get me the hookers and blow package.


30 posted on 12/26/2017 5:22:28 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: Drew68

Indeed. Every customer of a hooker works for someone, are all of their employers responsible?


31 posted on 12/26/2017 5:34:12 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: Enterprise

It is indeed human trafficking. Assets seized, Bezos.


32 posted on 12/26/2017 5:34:34 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satans finest work.)
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To: JohnyBoy

Interesting. You are suggesting legitimate business people are selling legal goods to cops at a sting operation. Possible. Possible.


33 posted on 12/26/2017 5:37:42 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Islam is Satans finest work.)
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To: EEGator

We have a justice system for a reason. Use it.


34 posted on 12/26/2017 5:40:45 AM PST by Loud Mime (Liberalism: Intolerance masquerading as tolerance, Ignorance masquerading as Intelligence)
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To: JohnyBoy
Conflating human trafficking with prostitution justs makes me doubt that human trafficking is actually going on.

"Human trafficking" is the new word for prostitution. They are used one in the same. If you go out and hire a hooker off the street corner for a BJ, you are engaging in human trafficking.

In the military, George W. Bush saw to it that human trafficking be added to the UCMJ so if a sailor in port goes out and gets himself a hooker for an hour, he can go to Leavenworth.

So when we read stories about human trafficking regarding sex workers, we are reading about the world's oldest profession, what used to be called plain old prostitution.

35 posted on 12/26/2017 5:44:08 AM PST by Drew68
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To: Vigilanteman

Expect a knock off at harbor freight in a few years for several hundred bucks.


36 posted on 12/26/2017 5:45:41 AM PST by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: nuke_road_warrior

ROFLOL


37 posted on 12/26/2017 5:46:52 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump!)
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To: nuke_road_warrior
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38 posted on 12/26/2017 5:47:52 AM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Tax-chick

Not prostitutes, human trafficked sex slaves.


39 posted on 12/26/2017 5:53:01 AM PST by FrdmLvr (“What Happened you ask?...Ma’am, you got your ass kicked.” Bannon)
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To: BinaryBoy
The question should be why only 67?

Because these 67 were either too arrogant, or too stupid, to use their own private email accounts.

40 posted on 12/26/2017 5:54:50 AM PST by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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