On Friday, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich in Phoenix disappointed prosecutors in the Lacey/Larkin case by granting a defense motion to continue the trial’s start date, resetting it from May 5 to August 17. Citing the “expansive scope” of…
Judging from the epic case of mass psychosis that has swept over the Sunshine State as a result of the nation’s annual bout of Super Bowl sex-trafficking hysteria, Floridians could easily give the Flat Earth Society a run for its…
Last week, on Jan. 9, federal Judge Susan Brnovich in Phoenix spiked a defense motion in the Lacey and Larkin case that accused attorneys for the U.S. Justice Department of having “grossly abused the grand jury process” by misleading jurors…
On January 7, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Brnovich, the trial judge in the ongoing criminal case against award-winning newspapermen Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin, denied a defense motion challenging the adequacy of computer server evidence, which the government claims…
In a 12-page decision issued on December 20 from his chambers in Los Angeles, U.S. District Court Judge R. Gary Klausner brushed aside a First Amendment challenge to the federal government’s seizure of millions in publishing proceeds as part of…
Some of the best work on the sex trafficking panic was done in 2011/2012 as part of investigative series by Village Voice Media (VVM), an alt-weekly chain founded in 1970 by Arizona State University dropouts Michael Lacey and Jim Larkin…
Federal agents investigating several Mojave County, Arizona massage parlors in 2018 received handjobs from victims they were looking to free from lives of sexual slavery, according to unredacted public records recently published in Lake Havasu’sToday’s News-Herald. Seven people were arrested…
On the same day members of Congress proposed legislation to study the effects of FOSTA/SESTA, the 2018 law that outlawed adult ads online and placed sex workers in harm’s way, around 30 sex workers, activists and allies assembled at a…
Skepticism should be the default position of all journalists, and yet, far too many members of the media regurgitate society’s dominant narratives with an obtuse, mind-numbing regularity. Hosts Michael Hobbes and Sarah Marshall of the contrarian podcast, “You’re Wrong About…” cop…
They are mothers, daughters, sons, sisters, brothers and lovers. They were strangled, shot, raped and beaten to death. Some overdosed or took their own lives. Others survived with trauma and lasting scars. They all will be remembered Tuesday, December 17…
