Today we are taking a quick moment to update our readers about some of the more recent events surrounding the upcoming trial of the key players in the Backpage sex trafficking syndicate.
Only days ago a federal appeals court on rejected a request by the former operators of Backpage, James Larkin and Michael Lacey, to prevent a judge from presiding over their trial because of statements made by the judge’s husband, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, about the now-shuttered classified ad site.
Tony Ortega
This week we are going to shift gears just a little bit. In our examination of the official timeline of the rise of Backpage as laid forth in the State’s charging document, we’ve been focusing on the business side of the Backpage tragedy.
It is worth noting, however, that the indictment itself devotes an entire section to the detailing a sampling of victim summaries, some of which we felt might be beneficial to look at today.
In years since Tony Ortega began first harassing Scientologists, at times using underhanded and illegal means to do so, he has been very tight lipped about exactly how often he ignores state and federal laws in his pursuit of his blatantly false stories.
Since the Backpage scandal started to unravel, and the level of lawlessness of his co-worker co-conspirators began to be revealed to the public, Tony Ortega has never once exposed any act that would put his child-sex selling bosses (James Larkin and Michael Lacey) into criminal jeopardy.
No, the above headline isn’t in reference to Tony Ortega (though you could be forgiven for thinking so, given his history of faking identities online and helping to coverup sex trafficking crimes.)
This story involves an entirely different scumbag charged with human trafficking and the online promotion of underage sex workers. While Tony Ortega could certainly be credibly accused of the latter, as of the writing of this blog post no official charges have been filed identifying him as a human trafficker under U.
As if we needed more proof that known liar and child sex trade propagandist Tony Ortega has blood on his hands for the role he played in helping prop up Backpage in its billion dollar operation selling children for sex to online perverts, this the recent story which broke earlier in December is a chilling reminder.
On June 5, 2018, Chrystul Kizer fired two bullets into the brain of serial sex abuser Randy Volar.
By the time James Larkin and Michael Lacey, the infamous child pimp runners of the Village Voice, finally kicked Tony Ortega to the curb it was already too late. The damage had been done and the bulk of their crimes were soon become a matter of public record.
One might be tempted to think that Tony Ortega dodged a bullet by getting fired from the Backpage’s illicit sex empire before the Feds shut it down, disappearing into the anonymity of an obscure suburban life.
Yesterday we looked at how Tony Ortega was used as a ‘tool’ of the devious individuals behind Backpage. He was what the Soviet propagandists used to call, “a useful idiot”, a political term used to describes a person who, through manipulation, is useful to a cause that is not their own despite not fully realizing the role they play. This makes them “an idiot, an unwitting and useful pawn.
We saw how this same basic set up was essential to make the Backpage sex-trafficking business model work — from the executive board at the top to the rank and file pimps on the street.
