Posted on 04/12/2018 3:49:14 PM PDT by blueyon
Attorney General Ken Paxton announced today that his office’s prosecution of Backpage.com has resulted in the company pleading guilty to human trafficking in Texas and its CEO Carl Ferrer pleading guilty to money laundering. This comes less than a week after the attorney general’s office assisted the Department of Justice with permanently shutting down the website.
Ferrer will be sentenced to up to five years in prison once he’s fulfilled the terms of his plea agreement with Attorney General Paxton’s office. His cooperation in the ongoing investigation into Backpage could lead to other criminal charges against individuals associated with the company.
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Executive order is irrelevant for this. You’ll see in approximately 1 month a different site will be just as popular and out of reach of US authorities. Prostitution is legal in many countries.
An American site could have been forced to cooperate with authorities for cases of trafficking and murder. And report obvious cases of abuse.
This just moved everything overseas and completely out of reach.
They are never out of business, as long as men like sex, you will always have hookers, they just move to other websites
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