Mike "Kansas" Pompeo, you ROCK!!! THANK YOU, sir!!!
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Recommended Pedogate names to follow: @StreetGrace and #DemandAnEnd
Ya'll, this Backpage takedown is a yuuuuge win. (Link to 61 page indictment: https:// www.justice.gov/file/1050276/download)
Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer has plead guilty in 3 states and agreed to testify against his website colleagues!
https:// www.washingtonpost.com/news/true-crime/wp/2018/04/13/backpage-ceo-carl-ferrer-pleads-guilty-in-three-states-agrees-to-testify-against-other-website-officials/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.8fc220349636
“This is such an important step forward for the many people who’ve been combating human trafficking,” said Maggy Krell, a former assistant attorney general in California who worked on the case until leaving the office last month. She was in court for Ferrer’s plea Thursday. “There is no one in the entire world who made more money off sex trafficking than the owners of this website. Seeing it shut down and having their business model become clearly illegal is really gratifying. If one case can change the world, it’s this case.”
In pic related, L-R: CEO Carl Ferrer, former owner James Larkin, COO Andrew Padilla, and former owner Michael Lacey.