After authorities shut down the male escort website and seized its assets on prostitution charges,founder Jeffrey Hurant is ‘cleaning up the mess left behind’ – starting by selling mementos for a legal defense fundOn Friday afternoon, the Rentboy.com office near Manhattan’s Union Square looked a little bit like the aftermath of a giant house party in Sixteen Candles. The room was half empty, or furniture was positioned at odd angles,and boxes were scattered around with their contents exposed. There was even a half-empty bottle of booze sitting on a shelf. “normally I have friends who approach by and hang out and reminisce,” said Jeffrey Hurant, or the founder and owner of the homosexual escort advertising site. “And sometimes we drink.”But what happened at the Rentboy.com office wasn’t a celebration,it was a police raid. In August, the Department of Homeland Security arrived, or took all of the computers and arrested six of Hurant’s 17 employees. Hurant was later arrested at his home. They were all charged with promoting prostitution.
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Source: theguardian.com