PHOENIX (AP) — The classified advertising site Backpage.com ignored warnings to stop running advertisements promoting prostitution, sometimes involving children, because the lucrative enterprise ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Two former executives for the now-shuttered classified site Backpage.com are scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday in Phoenix for conspiring to facilitate prostitution by selling sex ads. A ...

Survivors of trafficking linked to Backpage and CityXGuide may be eligible for compensation — and the deadline is coming up.

PHOENIX (AP) — Michael Lacey, a founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison and fined $3 million for a single money laundering count in a ...

PHOENIX — Michael Lacey, a founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison and fined $3 million for a single money laundering count in a ...

Two former executives for the now-shuttered classified site Backpage.com are scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday in Phoenix for conspiring to facilitate prostitution by selling sex ads. A prosecutor has ...

Backpage.com founder Michael Lacey was convicted of international concealment money laundering in 2023, but deadlocked on 84 other prostitution facilitation and money laundering charges. The Backpage ...

The classified ads website Backpage.com has been seized by federal law enforcement agencies, according to a banner that popped up on the site Friday. The banner says, "backpage.com and affiliated ...

PHOENIX — Michael Lacey, a founder of the lucrative classified site Backpage.com, was sentenced Wednesday to five years in prison for a single money laundering count in a sprawling case involving ...