Backpage raided, CEO arrested on sex-trafficking charges
apnewsarchive.com
apnewsarchive.com
Click the main AP logo in top left, and you're taken to a blank page that says "AP has suspended this beta product."
But it's definitely a legit story and seems like they have something pretty damning. If he intentionally chose not to act in the face of the knowledge of what was happening (as it certainly appears), I'll be rooting big time for government on this one.
The facilitating part of it is key. If you are FedEx and deliver a package of drugs, that is not your fault, but if you offer a special service where, for a large fee, you'll bag any package in coffee grounds and srap the outside of it in cleaner to reduce the smell, you'll probably be charged with facilitation of a crime.
If you own a hotel where children are regularly being raped and it has been brought to your attention many times and you still refuse not to stop offering the special room in your basement with extra soundproofing to single men who show up with children, that's facilitation too.