Look, Ma, No Handcuffs! Judge Dismisses Backpage.com Pimping Charges, Invites California Attorney General to Try to Prove Money-Laundering Allegations
Sacramento Superior Court Judge Lawrence Brown on Wednesday dealt a substantial blow to the State of California’s latest effort to bring down Backpage.com, dismissing pimping charges against the online classified website’s CEO Carl Ferrer and former owners Jim Larkin and…