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A former executive and two operations managers for classified site Backpage.com worked vigorously to keep the platform free of ads for prostitution even as strategies on how to do so constantly ...
The unsealed indictment lays out details concerning 17 alleged victims, including adults & minors as young as 14 years old, who were trafficked on the site. Backpage.com founders, five others ...
Cousins did not report the incident or seek medical help for D.J., but instead locked the man in his cell for more than an hour, says the indictment filed in Philadelphia federal court.
Backpage. Backpage.com was a classified advertising website founded in 2004 by the alternative newspaper chain New Times Inc./. New Times Media (later known as Village Voice Media or VVM) as a rival to Craigslist. [ 1] Similar to Craigslist, Backpage let users post ads to categories such as personals, automotive, rentals, jobs and adult services.
Philadelphia crime family. The Philadelphia crime family, also known as the Bruno–Scarfo crime family, [ 19] the Philadelphia–Atlantic City crime family, [ 20] the Philadelphia Mafia, [ 21][ 22] the Philly Mafia, [ 23][ 24][ 25] or the Philadelphia–South Jersey Mafia, [ 26][ 27][ 28] is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in ...
Publisher/Journalist. Known for. Chairman/CEO of Village Voice Media (VVM) James Anthony Larkin (June 16, 1949 – July 31, 2023) was an American publisher and journalist in Phoenix, Arizona, known for his influence in the alternative newspaper industry. He was largely responsible, along with business partner Michael Lacey, for his work with ...
How the Backpage prosecution helped create a playbook for suppressing online speech, debanking disfavored groups, and using "conspiracy" charges to imprison the government's targets
In August 2016, Casablanca was indicted along with 45 other mobsters from the Genovese, Gambino, Lucchese, Bonanno, and Philadelphia crime families; he was charged with conspiracy to extort and contraband cigarettes. [56] On October 30, 2018, he was released from prison. [57]