Financiers and Sex Trafficking

THE biggest forum for sex trafficking of under-age girls in the United States appears to be a Web site called Backpage.com.

The owners turn out to include private equity financiers, including Goldman Sachs with a 16 percent stake.

Read the whole story: nytimes.com

Comments

[Dorian Mode]

09:17 AM on 04/08/2012

It made money didn't it

[BannShee]

03:43 AM on 04/05/2012

Many people who are posting here cannot tell the difference between trafficking and consenting adult prostitution.

[Ben Wilson]

07:37 PM on 04/02/2012

Get ready for the slowest white wash of our times.

[ThinkCreeps]

02:55 AM on 04/02/2012

Look on the bright side for Goldman - the Pope actually does the abuse in house, and he seems to have been making money at an increasing rate for about 1700 years.

[ResearchtheFacts]

12:21 AM on 04/02/2012

I'm reading the comments and am in shock. When you have five adults preying on a 15 year old and rape and abuse is thrown in, there is no comedy to it. Along with the other victims who are on the backpage and these vulture capitalist making money off it pretending they don't know what's going on.

If you notice all day long they will go after those on the bottom of the totem pole but they never ever go after the banks processing the illegal money made off these ventures and they never have to give the money back. But you can bet they confiscate the money made off of drug deals.

[Tom Servo]

11:48 PM on 04/01/2012

Who knows what brothels these guys have set up around the world. It can't be good because they have no conscience.

[JoeBlough]

11:29 PM on 04/01/2012

I thought they bought in as part of the executive bonus plan.

[lofttypeofaview]

11:03 PM on 04/01/2012

Illicit profits buys illicit products.

[PsyGuy24]

11:01 PM on 04/01/2012

Pay no mind to the fact that Goldman is the second largest donor to Obama's reelection campaign..

[mjswoosh]

01:49 AM on 04/02/2012

The two party system is an illusion and an obsolete paradigm propped up to make you believe you have a choice. Criticizing Obama in such a way simply makes it obvious you have not woken up yet to who your owners are.

[gmb007]

10:53 PM on 04/01/2012

Good People, it’s way past time for a good old-fashioned peasant uprising. I’m talking torches, pitchforks, tar and feathers at the gates and doors.

GS and Wall Street are our greatest ENEMIES - not “terrorists”, not “Al Queda”, not Iran (most especially NOT the brave Iranian people), not [insert brand new shiny ‘enemy’ here].

GS, etal. are destroying us, our nation and the world.

How much more will we tolerate???

[d23ratm]

12:57 AM on 04/02/2012

Too bad innocent people died in the WTC attack, perhaps the flight plan should have been altered to hit GS's tower of greed and degeneracy.

[marlaannchristenson]

10:52 PM on 04/01/2012

To give Goldman Sachs the benefit of the doubt would be stupid. Anyone with a brain knows that in the business of "escorting" there is no guarantee the girls are of legal age. So, in investing in a forum for prostitution one is almost assuredly supporting underage prostitution and sex trafficking.

[catboycolo]

10:34 PM on 04/01/2012

So they aren't just F#&%!@G adults?

[pattileigh]

10:30 PM on 04/01/2012

What a surprise. Big Corporations are no better than the Mafia.

[PhilipTaylor]

10:27 PM on 04/01/2012

I WISH G0LDMAN COULD BE MORGUElFlED!

[Baci302]

10:27 PM on 04/01/2012

I have to say I didn't see that one coming. But am I shocked? Hell no.