CEO of escort service Rentboy.com pleads guilty to promoting prostitution [View all]
Source: Crain 's New York Business
The chief executive officer of the website Rentboy.com pleaded guilty Friday to promoting prostitution.
Jeffrey Hurant faces up to 21 months in prison when he's sentenced Feb. 2 in the federal case in Brooklyn.
The successful site operated for nearly 20 years in an open and racy way, with male escorts paying for ads to attract new—mainly male—customers. That came to an abrupt end during a raid of Rentboy's Manhattan offices last year, led by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The vast majority of prostitution cases are handled by local authorities.
"Surely the Department of Homeland Security has more pressing concerns than to fritter away precious time and resources on something that shouldn't even be criminalized in the first place," Human Rights Watch's Graeme Reid said at the time, echoing the sentiments by the American Civil Liberties Union and other advocacy groups.
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I was under the impression that all they did was lift luggage...
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