Backpage.com Prosecutors Reveal New Details on Site Shutdown Case (AVN)

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Three days after prosecutors in the criminal case against classified ad site Backpage.com revealed that the site’s CEO had copped a plea and was now cooperating with the feds in their case against the Backpage founders, a local Arizona district attorney released new details about one of the cases that led to allegations of “sex trafficking” in the 93-count indictment against Backpage and its execs.

Backpage as a corporate entity was charged with trafficking, and entered a guilty plea to that charge last week. But none of the seven people named in the federal indictment was charged with “sex trafficking.”