Backpage Kingpins Go on Trial—and Sex Workers May Pay the Price
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 12 months agoThe defendants, alt-weekly titans Michael Lacey and James Larkin, claim their website, Backpage.com,...
Breaking Backpage: A prosecutor’s quest to fight sex trafficking in America
NY Daily News via Yahoo News· 7 months agoAs a prosecutor in California, Maggy Krell saw that unfairness daily, particularly when cops would...
Ex-Backpage owners head to trial over alleged sex ads
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 12 months agoTwo journalists who founded an alternative weekly newspaper in Phoenix and later created the...
Judge declares mistrial for Backpage website founders, says government tainted jury with testimony
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA federal judge on Tuesday halted the criminal trial of former executives and employees of the ...
Review: Compelling look at prosecuting sex trafficking site
Associated Press via Yahoo Sports· 7 months agoThe final chapter in the Taking Down Backpage story has yet to be written. Prosecutor Maggy Krell...
Judge declares mistrial at trial of Backpage.com founders
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA judge declared a mistrial Tuesday at the trial of the founders of the lucrative classified site ...
Judge declares mistrial over child sex trafficking references in case against founders of backpage...
NY Daily News via AOL· 11 months agoBackpage.com CEO Carl Ferrer, left, former owner James Larkin, former owner Michael Lacey and COO...
Salesforce.com Must Face Texas Victims Over Sex-Trafficking
Bloomberg via Yahoo Finance· 1 year agoSalesforce.com must face state and federal sex-trafficking facilitation complaints by several young...
Judge declares mistrial in Backpage prostitution case where teenager claimed she was ‘raped for...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 11 months agoA federal judge in Arizona has declared a mistrial in the case against six former employees of the...
The Day We Took Down the World’s Biggest Sex Trafficker
The Daily Beast via Yahoo News· 6 months agoCarl Ferrer’s flight from the Netherlands to Houston was the longest flight of my life that I was...