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Backpage Principals Convicted of $500M Prostitution Enterprises Promotion Scheme

United States Attorney's Office, District of Arizona, November 17, 2023. Backpage trial outcome: the convictions of Michael Lacey, Scott Spear and John 'Jed' Brunst, and the acquittal of Andre Padilla and Joye Vaught on all charges.

Source type
Prosecutor release
Published
November 17, 2023
Research grade
P1
Used in entries
13

Bibliographic record

Publisher
United States Attorney's Office, District of Arizona
Published
November 17, 2023
Source type
Prosecutor release
Research grade
Source grade P1
Language
English
Official record
Official publication
Address
https://www.justice.gov/usao-az/pr/backpage-principals-convicted-500m-prostitution-enterprises-promotion-scheme
What it supports
Backpage trial outcome: the convictions of Michael Lacey, Scott Spear and John 'Jed' Brunst, and the acquittal of Andre Padilla and Joye Vaught on all charges
Dataset id
src_usao_az_backpage_convictions_2023

Research notes

  • Press Release Number: 2023-181_Backpage.
  • Headline and slug differ from the existing record src_doj_backpage_convictions_2023, which carries the Office of Public Affairs version titled 'Backpage Principals Convicted of $500M Prostitution Promotion Scheme' (without 'Enterprises'). Both pages are live.
  • The verdict was returned the day before publication ('convicted three former owners of Backpage.com yesterday').
  • Read via an Internet Archive capture because justice.gov serves an Akamai bot interstitial to automated clients.

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Cited 13 times across 2 record types.

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