CEO of Backpage arrested for Pimping
 

The CEO of Backpage, a website that has been accused of allowing ads for child sex trafficking, was arrested Thursday in Texas.
Carl Ferrer, 55, was arrested in Houston after landing on a flight from Amsterdam, the attorney general of Texas announced.


Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer arrested on pimping charges - Oct. 6, 2016

Damm i was about to post it..... But im amazed how those CEO are all base out of USA ??? ... remember MyRedBook ??? samething another one bite the dust.

Well there couple other site like this one to take over here LOL

I will follow this very closely:pimp

Damn 2 Million a month for posting ads like craigslist.....

5 years 10 milll .... I think i need some holidays :upsidedow Anyone have an island for sale ?
Would like to plan ahead before the sherif catch me too :)

Their Merchant account still work :1orglaugh Ad did go through strange lol

Just my little slice of the world we probably spend $500 a week or more there.

just give me that money and I'll put flyer's on cars at all wally worlds around Indiana.. You'll make millions :2 cents:

Contact please ? :thumbsup :1orglaugh

they even changed from CC to bitcoins in USA some time ago to avoid getting arrested.... guess it didn't work

Carl Ferrer, 55, was arrested in Houston after landing on a flight from Amsterdam

maybe he was at the WMA?

I see no new listings since yesterday, do u think it has some relation?

Maybe now you believe me?

Backpage advertising prostitution in the USA is in violation of most states' laws.
Sex trafficking adults and children for prostitution is in violation of most states' laws and when you cross a state line in interstate commerce it is in violation of https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/t...-I/chapter-117 USC 18 Chapter 117

The Feds have not gotten involved yet ...

So you wonder why VISA and Mastercard walked away :upsidedow They knew this would be a train wreck eventually ....

I'll give you $30.00 =)

2 mil a month, wooo weee

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh I'll pass, my caddy only runs on premium gas and $30 wouldn't pay for my gas..

Guess I'll stick to doing your blogs :winkwink:

I think it is going to be really interesting to see how this all plays out, as I imagine that Carl Ferrer will have the resources to mount a significant defense.

I would expect that the defense would point out that users must agree they will not use the site to violate any laws, and show how ads that they find are for an illegal service are removed. Further, they have legal precedent that can point to where courts have ruled that website operators are not responsible for the criminal conduct of their users.

The prosecution will have to try to show that Carl Ferrer was aware of the criminal use, and allowed it to continue, taking no steps to prevent it, or that the primary purpose of the site was to facilitate criminal activity to begin with. As these are criminal charges, the burden of proof is quite high.

Did he travel to the USa knowing this would happen? Was he aware of the possible arrest?
I would probably choose not to go there if i was making that much and must obviously be on the radar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpage
sounds like he was flying to Texas to it's Dallas headquarters.

When I first saw this on a geek site I misread it as "CEO of Backblaze..." :helpme

Used to buy ads all the time...

It was only $2m for California.

The estimate is likely overvalued as is normal for prosecuters to do when filing charges, but there are also 49 other states, three of which are significantly large. Plus Canada and the rest of the world.

They were probably making closer to $15m - $20m since escort ads are not the only thing they charge for.

I wonder how much Fling was paying them, since they were the biggest customer and whitelisted to post links in the escort ads without removal.

WTF is "child sex trafficking" ?

You need to go back to elementary school.

$2 mill/month for 10 years = $240 million

Yup or go to bed more earlier , was really tired. :1orglaugh
$2 mill/month x 5 months = 10 mill. -> Holiday for me

No worries. A fat donation to the clinton foundation, will make all this go away.

Unless trump wins, & the rule of law is restored...

:1orglaugh

vile disgusting scumbag

interesting news i thought they were a UK company?

it actually doesn't exist as most are statistically likely to be abused by family/friends that are close to them in their circles. its just the buzzword the ojjdp icac uses to secure federal funding, try to entrap people, follow them all around the world with teams of uneducated goons, have assemblies, write more grants to fix said imaginary problem, kind of like the war on terror etc. just my opinion of course

Any more updates on this and the site?

Some history on this:

Supreme Court refuses to block Backpage subpoenas in sex trafficking investigation - Sep. 13, 2016

Site is still up in the USA for me using a US IP
Los Angeles - escorts - backpage.com

The three principals are sitting in jail waiting to be arraigned today or tomorrow. [asuming they all have been arrested by now?]

https://oag.ca.gov/system/files/atta...edact ed.pdf?
^arrest warrant

Is an election coming up in Texas? Sounds a lot more like it is about vote getting than any REAL concern about ... well ... anything at all criminal.

So seems like he would have known and came back to stand tall and fight the legal battle.
Guy has balls

Kamalla Harris is the DA and she is running for Senate.

Backpage won the dismissal of a similar case last year in the US District Court for Massachusetts
https://www.eff.org/files/2015/05/15...to_dismiss.pdf

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
Communications Decency Act (CDA), 47 U.S.C. § 230

https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datasto...2/14-35487.pdf

US Appeals Court 9th Circuit a CDA ruling this month ...

He (Ferrer) will probably get a walk on this. (After a few weeks in jail -- denied bail "flight risk"?)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sectio...ent_and_minors

The US Senate has been investigating Backpage for years. Ferrer basically told the US Senate to shove their subpoena up their ass, he's not showing up to testify and he's not giving them the docs they are asking for.

This is what happens when you try to tell the US Senate to F off...

Harris is running for Senate and this is a political move. California is going to have a very very tough time making this stick. And he probably knows this is an arm twisting technique. He's got a some of the best lawyers working on this case.

The Sheriff who requested that VISA/Mastercard stop doing business with Backpage was sued and Backpage won. Even the USSC didnt take the Sheriff's appeal...they denied cert.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/polit...506_story.html

And Backpage is estimated to make about $150 million a year...

Here's a 196 page US Senate report on Backpage if you have an hour of your life you dont need...

http://www.portman.senate.gov/public...f-736d083917c5

I tend to agree with Barry that he will walk, but its looking more like a witchhunt with congress getting involved and multiple state agencies on his ass.

If they really had a case wouldnt the site be shut down like the online casinos were?

Looks like business as usual at Backpage.

This is a joke right

I am sure he was involved with the pimping but at the end of the day the charges are for money laundering. I bet he was stealing from the company now they are fuckin his image up for life.