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Greg Russinger's Blog – April 2010 Archive (5)

Craigslist sex ads account for one third of revenues

Where’s the place you can find a 1996 Kia Sephia, free used socks, and sex for a small fee? Why, Craigslist, of course! The website that made us all realize you never really need to buy anything new has come

under fire once again for its controversial sex advertisements.

A new financials evaluation of the site estimates that one-third of Craigslist’s $100+ million revenue comes via sex-related ad sales. While a lot of the bed romp classifieds are legit, there still…

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Added by Greg Russinger on April 26, 2010 at 7:44am — No Comments

FBI Updates

The girls—some as young as age 12—were smuggled into the U.S. from their village homes in Guatemala. Their impoverished parents were told that their daughters would be working in restaurants

and jewelry stores in California and would earn good wages that could

be sent back to their families.

Instead, upon arriving in Los Angeles, the girls were taken to have their eyebrows tattooed and their hair colored and then forced to work the streets as…

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Added by Greg Russinger on April 16, 2010 at 7:21am — No Comments