‘It needs to be occupied’: Historian says former JEA headquarters that’s about to go up for sale should be preservedFILE - Former Backpage.com owner Michael Lacey attends a Senate committee on Jan.
10, 2017, on Capitol Hill in Washington. – 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 singlecount in a sprawling case involving allegations of a yearslong scheme to promote and profit from prostitution through classified ads.
Prosecutors said the three defendants were motivated by greed, promoted prostitution while masquerading as a legitimate classified business and misled anti-trafficking organizations and law enforcement officials about the true nature of Backpage's business model. The site’s marketing director has already pleaded guilty to conspiring to facilitate prostitution and acknowledged that he participated in a scheme to give free ads to prostitutes to win over their business. Additionally, the CEO of the company when the government shut the site down,Two other Backpage employees were acquitted of charges by a jury at the same 2023 trial where Lacey, Brunst and Spear were convicted of some counts.
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