Exposed… Goldman Sachs Owns Top Sex Trafficking Site!

 

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So good it must be true! Nicholas Kristof unearths yet more dirt on the banksters at Goldman, in the New York Times

The biggest forum for sex trafficking of under-age girls in the United States appears to be a Web site called Backpage.com.

This emporium for girls and women — some under age or forced into
prostitution — is in turn owned by an opaque private company called
Village Voice Media. Until now it has been unclear who the ultimate
owners are.

That mystery is solved. The owners turn out to include private equity
financiers, including Goldman Sachs with a 16 percent stake.

Goldman Sachs was mortified when I began inquiring last week about
its stake in America’s leading Web site for prostitution ads. It began
working frantically to unload its shares, and on Friday afternoon it
called to say that it had just signed an agreement to sell its stake to
management. “We had no influence over operations,” Andrea Raphael, a
Goldman Sachs spokeswoman, told me.

Let’s back up for a moment. There’s no doubt that many escort ads on
Backpage are placed by consenting adults. But it’s equally clear that
Backpage plays a major role in the trafficking of minors or women who
are coerced. In one recent case in New York City, prosecutors say that a 15-year-old girl was drugged, tied up, raped and sold to johns through Backpage and other sites.

Backpage has 70 percent of the market for prostitution ads, according to AIM Group, a trade organization…

 

See full story in New York Times

 

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