{"id":10193,"date":"2018-04-13T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T13:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=10193"},"modified":"2018-04-13T09:58:51","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T13:58:51","slug":"founder-robert-mueller-honored-convicted-human-trafficker-with-fbi-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/founder-robert-mueller-honored-convicted-human-trafficker-with-fbi-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Founder &#038; CEO of Sex-Trafficking Site BackPage.com Worked For FBI; Robert Mueller Honored Convicted Human Trafficker With FBI Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CI_Backpage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10194\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CI_Backpage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"882\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CI_Backpage.jpg 882w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CI_Backpage-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/CI_Backpage-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 882px) 100vw, 882px\" \/><\/a><strong>True Pundit<\/strong><br \/>\nby Investigative Bureau<br \/>\n4\/13\/2018<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Excerpt:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>As FBI Director, Robert Mueller awarded BackPage.com CEO Carl Ferrer recognition from the Justice Department and FBI for <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">working<\/span><\/span> in an investigative capacity to assist the FBI.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>That award was bestowed on Ferrer and specifically Backpage,com by the FBI in 2011. Mueller, <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">director<\/span><\/span> at the time, signed the award.\u00a0The citation may have also included a cash reward, FBI sources said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Ironic especially since\u00a0Ferrer \u2014 previously charged criminally for pimping \u2014 was arrested by the FBI last week and plead out to sweeping criminal charges on Thursday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Last week the FBI seized the embattled BackPage.com <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">website<\/span><\/span>, the Justice Department alleging its founders and employees \u2014 including Ferrer \u2014 helped traffic underage sex victims, as well launder millions of dollars among other federal charges.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFor far too long, Backpage.com existed as the dominant marketplace for illicit <span class=\"vm-hook-outer vm-hook-default\"><span class=\"vm-hook\">commercial<\/span><\/span> sex, a place where sex traffickers frequently advertised children and adults alike,\u201d U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Thursday. \u201cBut this illegality stops right now.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><strong>View the complete article including image and links at:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truepundit.com\/founder-robert-mueller-honored-convicted-human-trafficker-with-fbi-award\/\">https:\/\/truepundit.com\/founder-robert-mueller-honored-convicted-human-trafficker-with-fbi-award\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True Pundit by Investigative Bureau 4\/13\/2018 Excerpt: As FBI Director, Robert Mueller awarded BackPage.com CEO Carl Ferrer recognition from the Justice Department and FBI for working in an investigative capacity to assist the FBI. That award was bestowed on Ferrer &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/founder-robert-mueller-honored-convicted-human-trafficker-with-fbi-award\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10195,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10193\/revisions\/10195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}