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 “What’s there to panic about?” The above quote, taken from one of Tony Ortega’s many shameless defenses of the Backpage child sex-ring syndicate, tells us so much about Ortega’s mindset in the midst of the scandal that would ultimately bring down the criminal enterprise employing him. In someways it’s almost understandable that Continue reading Tony Ortega  Back when Tony Ortega, infamous Backpage defender of pimps, prostitution, and philandering, was exposed carrying on multiple affairs while married to different women, people were rightly disgusted by his behavior. When it came to light he was ‘sexting’ (chatting explicitly online) with a close family friend we began to see he was no Continue reading Keeping It In The Family  Backpage.com Bosses We have spoken openly and frankly here on the blog about how Michael Lacey and James Larkin piggybacked off their then-failing newspaper Village Voice to launch an international sex trafficking syndicate with a global reach. They succeeded in their efforts far beyond what they’d imagined and today we are all Continue reading Pure Theater  With the advent of the Internet, we now live in an age where so much of life is happening online. By the time the study of online sex trafficking began in a serious scholarly back in 2011, we were already seeing websites like Craigslist and, worst of them all, Backpage emerging as behemoths in Continue reading “Traffic Jam” Hits Sex Traffickers  Tony Ortega and Leah Remini If you ask Tony Ortega about child sex-trafficking in America, he’s likely to give you the same set of repeated lies he’s given so many media outlets before. Consider this whopper Ortega offered up in a propaganda piece he wrote in defense of Backpage shortly before Continue reading Child Sex-trafficking in America  More than a year after his arrest on unrelated drug charges following a traffic stop by police man in Amarillo, TX was charged with human trafficking and has been sentenced to ten years in prison. In March of 2018, Jirehn Lamarr Curtis Jr., 22, was stopped for a routine traffic violation. Though detained Continue reading Tony Ortega’s Hidden Crimes  Rachel Bernstein “Ideologue” is a term we’ve been seeing with increasing regularity in the news these days. We’ve certainly written a lot about the ideologues rampant in the bigoted critics of the so-called anti-Scientology movement. They should really be called, the “Anti-Every-View-We-Don’t-Share Movement” because every one of them seems to refuse to Continue reading Tony Ortega’s Ideologue Crony Set To Lose License  As a poet some 400 years ago once keenly observed: No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away… While we here at the blog certainly can confirm Tony Ortega is a world class dirt Continue reading Tony Ortega: A Clod Among Dirtbags  The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is cracking down on the multi-billion dollar business of human trafficking in the U.S. The very same line of work Tony Ortega so proudly, if tone-deafly, defended as an ‘honest exchange between consenting people’. That characterization, like so much that comes out of the mouth of Tony Ortega, Continue reading The Tony Ortega + Backpage: A Formula For Evil  In our last post we drew attention to one of Tony Ortega’s many shady contacts, John McGhee, an Irish radical who crossed the line from online harassment to real-world violence. We suggested in that report that as shocking as the act of violence this known associate of Tony Ortega was it is hardly Continue reading Tony Ortega’s Connections | You can’t make donations to this site…
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