KTAR
Phoenix executives at the Website Backpage.com invoked the Fifth Amendment on Tuesday to avoid testifying before a Senate subcommittee on sex-trafficking ads.
Former owners Michael Lacey and James Larkin, both of Phoenix, and the company’s lawyer told a Senate panel Tuesday that they were invoking their Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination.
Lacey and Larkin established the weekly alternative newspaper, Phoenix New Times, before selling in 2012.