Feds Shut Down Backpage.com, Charge the Owner Amid Human Trafficking
Federal authorities on Friday shut down and seized Backpage.com, a classifieds website that has drawn intense scrutiny for its sex ads, some of which included teenagers.
Federal authorities on Friday shut down and seized Backpage.com, a classifieds website that has drawn intense scrutiny for its sex ads, some of which included teenagers.
Keith Raniere is accused of running “a secret society of women whom he had sex with and branded with his initials, coercing them with the threat of releasing their highly personal information and taking their assets.”
The FBI is investigating a couple of strangers who were caught engaging in a sex act while in their seats on Delta Lunes flight from Los Angeles to Detroit.
A DEA supervisor denied allegations that he had sex with a paid informant.
The investigation into the New York Police Department uncovered more allegations against a cop and another high-ranking official.
By Ross Parker ticklethewire.com Supreme Court Justices have a busy November with, among their other duties, six days of Oral Argument, including five cases of interest to criminal justice folks on both sides of the aisle. Death Penalty Jury Selection: No Court calendar would be complete without a contentious death penalty case. Foster v. Chatman…
A Sarasota woman said the FBI knew for years about allegations that now-former Subway spokesman Jared Fogle was interested in underage girls.
By Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com A married FBI informant who was spying on Muslims said the bureau instructed him to sleep with women to get intelligence, The Huffington Post reports. Craig Monteilh, who was known as Farouk al-Aziz, was told to get “personal information” such as phone numbers, emails and friends in the Los Angeles area….