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  1. October 21, 2025

    Salesforce Gets Sex-Trafficking Suit Paused For Criminal Case

    The Texas federal judge overseeing consolidated litigation accusing Salesforce of benefiting from the sex trafficking of people on Backpage, the defunct classified ads website that used the company's software, put the case on ice Tuesday, saying a related criminal case must first be resolved.

  2. August 29, 2024

    Backpage Co-Founder Gets 5 Years In Prostitution Case

    The co-founder of defunct classifieds service Backpage.com was sentenced in Phoenix federal court to five years behind bars after he was convicted for his role in a $500 million prostitution scheme, the U.S. Department of Justice said Wednesday.

  3. August 20, 2024

    Feds Want 20 Years For Backpage Trio In Prostitution Case

    Prosecutors asked an Arizona federal judge Monday to sentence two former executives of the defunct classifieds service Backpage.com and the site's co-founder to 20 years in prison after they were found guilty of several counts over an alleged $500 million prostitution scheme.

  4. April 24, 2024

    Backpage Execs Win Partial Acquittal In Prostitution Ad Retrial

    An Arizona federal judge has partially overturned jury retrial convictions against two former Backpage.com executives and the now-defunct classifieds website's co-founder, but she refused to acquit the trio of all charges or grant a second retrial in a sprawling criminal case alleging they facilitated Backpage's $500 million prostitution scheme.

  5. November 17, 2023

    Ariz. Jury Convicts Backpage Execs In Prostitution Ad Retrial

    An Arizona federal jury convicted two former Backpage.com executives of multiple criminal charges while acquitting two others and finding Backpage's co-founder guilty of one count of money laundering, ending a monthslong retrial in a sprawling criminal case over charges they facilitated the now-defunct classifieds website's $500 million prostitution scheme.

  6. June 01, 2023

    Ex-Backpage Execs Still Can't Duck Prostitution Ad Charges

    An Arizona federal judge declined to toss a superseding indictment accusing former Backpage.com executives and employees of facilitating prostitution on the site, ruling that the sprawling, 100-count indictment sufficiently lays out the allegations against them.

  7. September 14, 2021

    Ariz. Judge Calls Early Mistrial In Backpage Criminal Case

    An Arizona federal judge on Tuesday called an early mistrial in the government's criminal case alleging former executives and employees of Backpage.com facilitated prostitution, after the defendants argued that prosecutors had poisoned the jury with irrelevant stories of human trafficking.

  8. September 07, 2021

    Trafficking Tales Tainted Backpage Criminal Trial, Execs Say

    Former Backpage.com executives and employees are seeking acquittal or a mistrial after Arizona federal prosecutors told grim stories of child and human trafficking in their opening arguments, which the defendants say were "inflammatory" and irrelevant to the facilitation of prostitution case. 

  9. December 10, 2020

    Judge Ordered To Respond To DQ Motion In Backpage Case

    A Ninth Circuit panel has ordered an Arizona federal judge to respond to a disqualification motion brought by former Backpage.com executives and employees accused of facilitating prostitution who say she can't be impartial due to comments made by her husband, the state's attorney general.

  10. November 17, 2020

    Backpage Execs Take Judge DQ Fight To 9th Circ.

    Former Backpage.com executives and employees accused of facilitating prostitution made clear Tuesday they will continue their push to remove an Arizona federal judge from the case due to comments by her husband, who is the state's attorney general, this time by asking the Ninth Circuit to step in.