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Amazon and Microsoft Directors Charged in Prostitution Sting (kiro7.com)
An anonymous reader writes: A director from Microsoft and a former Amazon director have been charged with promoting prostitution after an investigation into Seattle-area sex trafficking, according to a local news report. Investigators say the director of worldwide health for Microsoft submitted over 70 reviews of prostitutes that he had allegedly hired since April 2012, according to the report, while the director of software development at Amazon, who worked on Fire TV, "allegedly hired prostitutes at least 29 times through The Review Board and TheLeague.Net, according to court documents." Both men have pleaded not guilty and are free on $75,000 bail, part of a group of 19 people now facing criminal charges. "These defendants, we allege, were absolutely devoted to the commercial sexual exploitation of vulnerable, powerless immigrant women," King County Prosecutors said in January, adding that the women, who were forced into prostitution to pay off debts to organized crime bosses in Asia, are not being charged.
Last January a Seattle newspaper reported that one alleged brothel owner "previously had made his living off illegal marijuana grows, but moved into prostitution when the drug was legalized."
Last January a Seattle newspaper reported that one alleged brothel owner "previously had made his living off illegal marijuana grows, but moved into prostitution when the drug was legalized."
Apparently they posted reviews of some of the prostitutes online which is technically promoting.
If I can be modded down for being a troll, can I be modded up for being an orc, or a balrog?
What's the use of having all the money in the world if you can't use it to purchase some world class vagina every once in a while?
They can. It's legal in Nevada, parts of Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, Denmark, Ecuador, France, Germany, ...
Those guys almost certainly could afford the plane tickets.
Do you have evidence outside that that would be her political stance (not personal) on the topic.
Hillary is too much of a political sell out fe be a Feminazi.
Beside in the United States prostitution laws are controlled by each individual state. For the most part doesn't have much political action asking such rules to be pushed on a national level.
Besides her stance on women's rights has been towards less regulation on what a woman can do because they are a woman not more.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Read a little closer. These aren't women who chose to be prostitutes rather than being dental hygienists or auto mechanics. They were coerced or forced into prostitution to pay off debts to organized crime bosses. Debts that may have not have even been their own but of their family members. They were neither safe nor secure and it's doubtful they were allowed to keep much of the money.
How much were the Amazon and Microsoft directors aware of this exploitation? Don't know, but apparently the prosecutors think they knew these women didn't have many other options.
Nah. People vote for Trump out of 2 reasons:
1. Because the Presidency by itself is a useless powerless post that doesn't do shit, and it's the same thing with or without Trump.
2. Because if Trump gets there, nobody will take him seriously and he will do absolutely nothing because the powers behind don't support him.
However if Hilary gets there, she has the backing from corporates and the warmongers (as can be seen via her cancerous foreign politics and shit like Monsanto backing), which will enable her spread of evil.
One is a cunning clown who is in it for his own ego and business, the other is a through and through evil piece of dog shit with the backing of all the parties that the left and democrats have been incidentally protesting against and fighting against during this last decade.
While I am not privy to the specifics, the summary does say the women were forced into it to pay off debts to crime bosses. So, if the information is correct.. the women were victims. If they were prostitutes by choice, that is a different story.