Backpage.com founder Michael Lacey sentenced to 5 years in prison, fined $3M for money laundering

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 sprawling case involving allegations of a yearslong scheme to promote and profit from prostitution...

Backpage founder Michael Lacey sentenced to 5 years in prison for money laundering in case involving prostitution ads

PHOENIX (AP) — Backpage founder Michael Lacey sentenced to 5 years in prison for money laundering in case involving prostitution ads.

Tennessee will remove HIV-positive people convicted of sex work from violent sex offender list

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — HIV-positive people who were convicted in Tennessee of sex work under a decades-old aggravated prostitution law will no longer be required to face a lifetime registration as a “violent sex offender” under a lawsuit settlement finalized this week. Last...