PHOENIX — The "Backpage.com" trial, in which former owners Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin and others are accused by the government of a number of alleged crimes over their ownership of a popular adult-oriented classifieds website, has been postponed until August 17.
Backpage.com was shuttered and seized by federal authorities in 2018. They accuse the company of “participation in a conspiracy to facilitate and promote prostitution,” and also of money laundering, human trafficking and other charges.
The postponement, attorney Paul Cambria told XBIZ, follows a request by Lacey and Larkin's defense to postpone the trial date, which had been initially set to May 5.
"We asked the court to move the trial because the government continued to serve hundreds of thousands of documents and we asked the court to give us more time to review it," Cambria told XBIZ.
Last October, U.S. District Court in Arizona Judge Susan Brnovich rejected a Motion to Dismiss filed by the defense for the former Backpage.com owners.
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