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A few days ago, Steven M. D’Antuono, Acting Deputy Assistant Director for the Criminal Investigative Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation testified before before the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee in Washington, D.C. on combating illicit financing by anonymous shell companies. While statements before the Urban Affairs committee is generally Continue reading FBI Testimony Damns Backpage 
There has been no shortage of disheartening news for the bad-faith operators behind the infamous Backpage underage sex trafficking scheme vociferously advocated by Tony Ortega and other spineless lackies who stood up to defend the indefensible. This past weekend news of a warrant application leaked to media outlets in Florida for the arrest Continue reading Latest Backpage Bust Suggests New Avenue For Catching Human Trafficking Conspirators: Texting History 
This week we have been looking at the staggering number of recent convictions surrounding women and young girls who have been trafficked for the explicit purpose of being sold for sex. Backpage profited off of its scheme to sell pimps advertising to the tune of more than half a billion dollars during its Continue reading Tony Ortega & The Peril of Warning Signs 
We knew from the beginning that tentacle reach Backpage’s shadowy human trafficking ring extended far and wide and yet the breadth of it’s vile influence across the nation continues to come as a shock to us as day by day new horror stories of real life people impacted by its depravity emerge. At Continue reading Backpage Exploits Runaway in Rhode Island 
When the story of the Backpage, owned and operated by Tony Ortega’s beloved former employers, is finally written it will be a harrowing tale. And it’s likely to come with an NC-17 rating. The sordid legacy of the world’s one-time leading human trafficking website is not for the change of heart. Its stomach-turning Continue reading Tony Ortega & Backpage: Self-Described “Extremists” 
When you read as much about the Backpage and its disgusting legacy of dehumanizing crime and shameless greed as we do here, it can be at times a little overwhelming. The stories may be graphic, even obscene, in their details but we believe they are important to tell. With so much happening in Continue reading Wheels of Justice 
Recently on this blog we helped break the story of a former middle school teacher who admitted paying for sex with a 14-year-old girl trafficked on Backpage and his sentencing last week to 10 years in prison. And last month we told you about a Wisconsin man who prosecutors say trafficked seven young Continue reading The Backpage Guilty Pleas Keep Stacking Up! 
Yesterday we took a focused look at a recent Backpage judgment that underlines the reprehensible behavior of both the company and its would-be apologists like Backpage Chief Propagandist-At-Large Tony Ortega who defended its business model on the grounds that it was ‘freedom of speech’. One of the true tragedies of yesterday’s appalling story Continue reading TonyOrtega: Chief Propagandist-At-Large Part II 
Arielle Silverstein and Tony Ortega One of the questions we are often asked here in the midst of our reporting on the widening Backpage scandal is just how Backpage specifically and intentionally facilitated child sex trafficking. While men like Tony Ortega have busied themselves devising elaborate defenses seeking to minimize and excuse Continue reading Tony Ortega: Chief Propagandist-At-Large 
“I helped turn a weekly newspaper with a web site into a digital enterprise.” – Tony Ortega, boasting to the New York Times Blog, September 14, 2012 We’ve been looking at various incidences of fallout following Ortega’s ‘help’ turning a failing weekly newspaper into a digital brothel enterprise, the likes of Continue reading Lowest of the Low |
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