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Into Tuesday day, the NYPD and you will Company off Homeland Cover raided the brand new self-announced “original and you can planet’s biggest men escort web site” for the faith you to President Jeffrey Hurant-and half a dozen almost every other personnel-was in fact generating and you may dealing with prostitution around the state traces and all over the world boundaries.

“2 decades we’ve been doing it [powering Rentboy]. And i do not think i do anything to advertise prostitution,” Hurant informed journalists. “I think we do-good some thing for good some body and we also give an effective some body together with her. And i hope one fairness would be done in the conclusion.”

The newest grievance (PDF) listings the firms term (“book son” was British slang for a masculine prostitute), motto (“Money cannot get you like…although other individuals try flexible.”), and you will tens and thousands of escort adverts, even though the “Terms of service” explicitly suggest that the brand new “website is almost certainly not utilized for the brand new advertisements out of sexual attributes or perhaps to do factors requiring new fee of cash having sex and other illegal factors.”

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“As the investigative arm of the Department of Homeland Security, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) is responsible for the enforcement of laws that promote the legitimate movement of people, goods and currency in domestic and foreign transactions,” ICE Spokesman Khaalid Walls said in a statement to The fresh new Day-after-day Beast.

“Our very own allegation with this specific case is the fact that the company and its own principals supposed in itself are a keen escort services if you find yourself promoting criminal serves, specifically illegal prostitution. (more…)