Backpage founder faces 2nd trial over what prosecutors say was scheme to sell sex through ad sales
Former Backpage.com owner Michael Lacey sits on Capitol Hill in Washington at a Senate committee. 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 shifted, their attorneys said Sept. 12, 2023 at a federal trial in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Backpage founder faces 2nd trial over what prosecutors say was scheme to sell sex through ad sales
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...
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