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Backpage Founder, Alt-Weekly Entrepreneur, and Free Speech Warrior James Larkin Has Died
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 10 months agoLarkin, 74, took his own life on Monday, just a little over a week before he was slated to stand...
The Backpage trial: What to know as Michael Lacey and others face prostitution charges
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic· 9 months agoCorrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this article misstated the date when jury...
Backpage: The Monumental Free Speech Case the Media Ignored
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 6 months agoTing Shen - Pool via CNP/Newscom, Hector Amezcua/ZUMA Press/Newscom After a dozen years of legal...
Backpage founder convicted of 1 count of money laundering. Arizona jury deadlocks on 84 other counts
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 6 months agoMichael Lacey, a founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com, was convicted Thursday on a...
Backpage founder faces 2nd trial over what prosecutors say was a scheme to sell sex through ad sales
Associated Press via AOL· 9 months agoA founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com will face his second trial on charges of...
Federal prosecutors want to retry former Phoenix journalist on prostitution charges related to...
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic via Yahoo News· 4 months agoFederal prosecutors intend to retry Michael Lacey, the former editor of Phoenix New Times, on...
The Backpage Defendants Never Stood a Chance
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 6 months agoLex Villena; Hector Amezcua/ZUMA Press/Newscom Eighty-six counts of criminal activity—that's what veteran journalist and publisher Michael Lacey faced in...
How shuttering Backpage made fighting the sex trade harder
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic· 9 months agoThe federal government has spent years trying to prove that Phoenix New Times co-founders Michael...
James Larkin, New Times and Backpage executive who faced charges of aiding prostitution, dead at 74
AZCentral | The Arizona Republic· 10 months agoJames Larkin, who helped turn the Phoenix alternative weekly New Times into a chain that took over the venerated Village Voice in New York, died by suicide Monday, days before a federal trial ...
Why Kamala Harris Won't Be Asked About the Suicide of a Newspaperman She Persecuted
Reason.com via Yahoo News· 10 months agoCourtesy of the Jim Larkin Family The sitting vice president, shortly before moving to Washington,...