>>510773006 (OP)Friday, December 23, 2016 "Attorney General Kamala D. Harris Announces New Criminal Charges Against Backpage.com Executives for Money Laundering and Pimping"
James Anthony Larkin (June 16, 1949 โ July 31, 2023)
"PHOENIX (CN) โ James Larkin, co-founder of the Phoenix New Times, an anti-war newspaper founded at Arizona State University in 1970 that would lead to an empire of alternative weeklies in 18 cities across the country, and co-defendant in a federal trial just days away, died by suicide on Monday.
Local police confirmed the 74-year-old died by a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head in Superior, Arizona.
The former newspaper owner, along with former New Times editor Michael Lacey and five others, was staring down a three-month trial, collectively facing 100 felony counts of facilitating prostitution in violation of the U.S. Travel Act, money laundering and conspiracy before his death.
A grand jury indicted the seven in 2018 over their alleged actions while running the website backpage.com,"