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A federal judge has acquitted Backpage co-founder Michael Lacey of dozens of counts, including a majority of those on which federal prosecutors planned to retry Lacey later this year. U.S. District...
A federal jury found two former Backpage.com executives guilty of conspiring to use the website to facilitate prostitution and a third guilty of a financial crime related to the classified...
PHOENIX (CN) — Delayed by three weeks after the death of a main co-defendant, the federal prostitution-facilitation and money laundering case against former Backpage.com owners and employees is nearing opening arguments. Jury selection for the trial, set to span three months, begins Tuesday morning.
After a high-profile mistrial in 2021, Michael Lacey, a co-founder of the notorious classified website, and four former employees find themselves in federal prosecutors' crosshairs once again this...
On April 6, 2018, the federal government seized and shut down the classified advertising platform Backpage, alleging that a group of current and former executives had used the website to...
Michael Lacey, a founder of the defunct classified site Backpage.com, received a five-year prison sentence on Wednesday and was fined $3 million. Lacey was found guilty of money laundering last...
Delayed by three weeks after the death of a main co-defendant, the federal prostitution-facilitation and money laundering case against former Backpage.com owners and employees is nearing opening arguments. Jury selection for the trial, set to span three months, begins Tuesday morning.
PHOENIX (AP) — A founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com will face his second trial on charges of facilitating prostitution and laundering money in what authorities say was a scheme to knowingly sell ads for sex on the site.
Phoenix, AZ — A federal jury in Phoenix convicted three former owners of Backpage.com yesterday of multiple counts of promoting prostitution business enterprises and multiple counts of money laundering, including conspiracy offenses.
Three former Backpage.com owners found guilty by a jury of offenses arising from the website’s promotion of prostitution won their motions for acquittal on dozens of counts from a federal judge who agreed certain evidence at trial was lacking.