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Backpage Executives to Be Sentenced After Testifying Against Site Founder About the Site's Sex Ads
- Two former executives of Backpage.com are set to be sentenced for conspiring to facilitate prostitution by selling sex ads.
- Prosecutors recommended five years of probation and restitution payments for Carl Ferrer and Dan Hyer, who both pleaded guilty in 2018.
- Ferrer acknowledged that most of Backpage's revenue came from escort ads and conspired to sanitize them.
- Backpage founder Michael Lacey was convicted of money laundering and sentenced to five years in prison.
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Backpage executives to be sentenced after testifying against site founder about the site's sex ads
Two former executives for the now-shuttered classified site Backpage.com are scheduled to be sentenced in Phoenix for conspiring to facilitate prostitution by selling sex ads.
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