PHOENIX (AZFamily) — In federal court, sex workers who advertised their services on the now-defunct website “Backpage” are ...

Backpage.com co-founder Michael Lacey leaves a federal courthouse in Phoenix after the first of a two-day sentencing hearing on August 28, 2024. (Joe Duhownik/Courthouse News) PHOENIX (CN) — A federal ...

The DOJ has opened a victim compensation fund tied to $200M in forfeited Backpage assets. Victims whose trafficking was facilitated via Backpage.com between 2004 and 2018 may be eligible. Petitions ...

FILE The Department of Justice seized Backpage in 2018 and went on to prosecute both owners and executives. MIAMI — The U.S. Justice Department recently announced that sex trafficking victims in cases ...

Backpage.com cofounders Michael Lacey and James Larkin hold up a 2017 dismissal of California state pimping charges. Larkin died by suicide in August 2023. (Stephen Lemons/FrontPageConfidential) ...

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched a new website that aims to help compensate Backpage.com trafficking victims, in the largest effort of its kind. The website, which was shut down in 2018, ...

DAYTONA BEACH SHORES, Fla. — A 32-year-old man was fatally stabbed early Saturday at a hotel as part of a Backpage meetup, the city's Department of Public Safety said. Officers found the wounded man, ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — The website Backpage.com was a major conduit for illegal prostitution across the globe before it was seized and shut down by the federal government in 2018. Now, human ...

FILE - Former Backpage.com owner Michael Lacey attends a Senate committee on Jan. 10, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File) PHOENIX (AP) — Michael Lacey, a founder of the ...