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**Black H@t** · (This post was last modified: 04-01-2012 05:32 AM by Black H@t.)

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…

Read More: Interesting...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/opinio....html?_r=1

**Luvapottamus**

I searched for Goldman ties to Dyncorps, and found this little rabbit-hole:

Cerberus: Guarding the Gates of Hell - Dynecorp, Pegasus, BP, Goldman Sachs - Gulf Oil Disaster Planned?

I haven't read it all myself yet, and not aware of the reputation of the writer(though the name is familiar)

But here it is:
http://redicecreations.com/article.php?id=11194

Mainly wanted to give a Bump

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 87441 04-01-2012 05:45 AM

but OWS are dirty hippies

Jptdknpa

**Luvapottamus**

LoP Guest Wrote:

but OWS are dirty hippies

**Shakey1** · **Shakey1** Subscriber User ID: 87439 04-01-2012 05:49 AM **Posts: 11,971**

You're on the ball, B.H.
f*ck America. f*ck humanity. I look forward to my death and the death of millions of other dumb f*cks. We're ready to move on from planet gaytropolis.

**AC488** I got no balls User ID: 488 04-01-2012 06:32 AM

I hate those f*cking cheats!

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 67391 04-01-2012 06:54 AM

they own the media that plants the desire,

and then they own the company that advertises the hookers.

Im surprised they arent controlling the pimps somehow.

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 15724 04-01-2012 07:03 AM

LoP Guest Wrote:

they own the media that plants the desire,

and then they own the company that advertises the hookers.

Im surprised they arent controlling the pimps somehow.

They are the pimps.....

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 67391 04-01-2012 07:06 AM

i have a friend who was an ex gang banger in the 1990s,

he never got up that high in it,

but he was convinced the heads of street gangs were somehow run by some shady bankers and corporate types.

LoP Guest Wrote:

LoP Guest Wrote:
they own the media that plants the desire,

and then they own the company that advertises the hookers.

Im surprised they arent controlling the pimps somehow.

They are the pimps.....

**Convicted Criminal** · (This post was last modified: 04-01-2012 07:35 AM by Convicted Criminal.)

It's good that this is pinned.

**CountFapula**

Black H@t Wrote:

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…

Read More: Interesting...
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/opinio....html?_r=1