Texas authorities said Thursday that Backpage.com will plead guilty to human trafficking and its leader will plead guilty to money laundering, one week after the classified ad website was seized by federal officials.
Read moreFederal prosecutors have charged the creators of the website Backpage.com, one of the largest web forums for classified ads, with facilitating prostitution and conspiracy to launder money in a 93-count indictment unsealed Monday in Arizona.
Read moreFederal law enforcement authorities are in the process of seizing online classified site Backpage.com and its affiliated websites.
Read moreMissouri Attorney General Joshua Hawley announced plans Thursday to ramp up his anti-sex trafficking efforts, two days after a federal judge tossed a lawsuit against his office filed by notorious ad website Backpage.com.
Read moreCalifornia will pursue felony charges for the second time against Backpage.com after a state judge Wednesday allowed money laundering counts to stand, though he dismissed pimping charges against the website’s executives.
Read moreMissouri’s attorney general Tuesday asked a federal judge to dismiss Backpage.com’s “frivolous” constitutional lawsuit, saying “compelling evidence” shows that Backpage creates and controls ads “for the sexual exploitation and rape of human-trafficking victims, including minors.”
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Backpage.com has sued Missouri’s attorney general, claiming his demand for information about human trafficking on its website is unconstitutional — a lawsuit the attorney general quickly denounced as frivolous, saying, “there is no First Amendment right to engage in human trafficking.”
Read moreThree Jane Does claims in a federal complaint that Backpage.com, its CEO Carl Ferrer and part-owners Michael Lacey and James Larkin failed to stop its website users from trafficking them in the child sex trade.
Read moreThe notorious ad website Backpage.com, accused multiple times of assisting in online sex-trafficking, is to blame for the rape and murder of a Chicago teen last year, her mother claims in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Read moreA Republican lawmaker’s plan to protect children from being trafficked for sex over the internet drew opposition from sex worker advocates Monday.
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Forced to shut down its de facto sex trafficking adults-only classified ad section by a Senate subcommittee, BackPage.com and affiliates have been slapped with federal lawsuits on both ends of the country by nonprofit shelters for women and children.
Read moreBackpage.com took down its adult classifieds section from its website Monday night, hours before its executives refused to answer questions from a Senate panel investigating pimping and child sex trafficking allegations.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court put an end Monday to claims by a trio who say that they were trafficked for underage sex via Backpage.com, the embattled classifieds website.
Read moreA California state judge said Wednesday he’s likely to throw out pimping charges against a trio of Backpage.com executives arrested last month in a joint investigation between Texas and California officials.
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