Backpage.com CEO Carl Ferrer pleaded guilty to money laundering and conspiracy charges three days after the classifed ad site was seized by the Justice Department.
The Free Speech Coalition issued a statement today on last week’s seizure of Backpage.com by federal authorities, saying that the platform's closure likely means that sex workers will be imperiled and that the federal government’s “War on Sex” work is just getting started.
New pimping and money laundering charges have been filed against the operators of Backpage.com, just two weeks after a judge tossed a similar case filed by state Attorney General Kamala Harris.
Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch and six other legal brothels in Nevada, is speaking out on the recent sex trafficking-related arrests in connection with the ad website Backpage.com.
Backpage.com has filed a civil claim against U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch, claiming that the recently passed Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation (SAVE) Act is unconstitutionally vague, overbroad and infringes on its First Amendment rights.
A federal appeals court ruled yesterday that Cook County’s sheriff violated the First Amendment rights of Backpage.com by pressuring Visa and Mastercard to stop processing ad sales on the site.
A federal appeals court this week ordered the Cook County Sheriff’s Department to halt lobbying major credit card companies that do business with Backpage.com.
Sheriff Grady Judd, the hard-nosed law enforcement official who declared war on the production and distribution of porn in Florida's Polk County several years ago, has another focus these days — Backpage.com.
