Realized the link to the article I posted didn't work, so here's the article link. It's a pretty good read, one of the men arrested committed suicide unfortunately from having his reputation be dragged through the dirt:
https://projects.seattletimes.com/20...titution-bust/
Originally Posted by haskellham
Thank you for sharing. This article had a lot of interesting details. Seattle is one of the leftiest cities and they persecuted the clients so hard that one of them killed himself. The clients who write reviews were considered as "promoting prostitution"
1, LE chased after the clients very hard. But girls were let go.
quote from the article:
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Out in the parking lot, police were secretly photographing cars that arrived and the men who got out. Over the next two months they started to match the license plates to driver’s-license photos. They also began matching the handles with the names and addresses of the inner members of The League.
And for the men who hadn’t attended a party, police got search warrants to go after their email accounts and the internet provider addresses that linked the pseudonyms to their real names.
Police closed 12 apartments and told 12 South Korean women they were free to leave. Police and translators explained that brothel owners and some frequent customers had been arrested but that the women would not be charged with a crime. They were offered help and connected to social-service agencies.
"""
2, A man who managed a review board website was sentenced to have an ankle monitor on home detention. He later killed himself.
quote:
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He (the guy named Zitars who managed the review board) argued that Craigslist and Backpage.com were overrun with pimps and women being forced to work the streets. “I would not allow them on the board … We had none of that on my website.”
Because he had no criminal history, Zitars was sentenced to 90 days of electronic home detention.
Four days after he was supposed to report to be fitted with the tracking device, Zitars fatally shot himself in the head.
"""