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The government further wanted to bar the defense from talking about how state attorneys general urged online classifieds to charge money for adult ads (which Backpage did not do at first), or from ...
After five weeks, the trial of Backpage.com executives in Phoenix is nearly over. On Friday, federal prosecutors finished their closing arguments against leaders of the defunct classified ad site ...
Michael Lacey, a founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison and fined $3 million for a single money laundering count in a sprawling case ...
Backpage founder Michael Lacey founded the Phoenix New Times in 1970, saying it was a response to the Vietnam War and the Kent State shootings. Backpage co-founder Jim Larkin joined the New Times in 1971. [5] [6] [7] The New Times' papers were free and relied on advertising. The New Times especially relied on classified advertising to earn ...
Shortly after becoming married the previous July, Mello was arrested by federal agents at his home in Dartmouth on September 17, 2002. Indicted by authorities on 51 charges including extortion and waterfront racketeering charges, including the forced takeover of Tempest Fisheries, Mello was also accused of using five fishing vessels for the purposes of smuggling and distributing marijuana and ...
About two weeks after the standoff, some of those arrested filed a $70,000,000 civil rights and defamation lawsuit against media outlets, the Massachusetts State Police, some individual troopers involved in the standoff, the presiding arraignment judge, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for "violating the claimants civil, national and human rights."
In the indictment, the U.S. Justice Department accuses Backpage of earning $500 million in prostitution-related revenue since its inception in 2004, and of money laundering that entailed routing ...
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