"We can issue subpoenas. We certainly are, and in fact, have requested a great deal of information from them about what they are seeing in terms of the complaints they have received."
"It's the issue that -- that there are individuals, and companies, and they can be cartels or they can be Backpage, who are making a huge amount of money off the trafficking of human beings."
"It is one thing for it to be overseas somewhere, you know, brothels in Cambodia that you follow. But it's another thing for it to be in the United States and to have large corporations profiting off i..."
"This is not just an international issue. This is something that very much is an issue of the kid in Kansas who's the runaway, who's trafficked to Las Vegas and then brought in to be prostituted on Hol..."
"The reality is backpage has proven to be a thriving marketplace. In the issue of human trafficking is a $32 billion industry in this country -- in the world."
"The conduct that this defendant committed is really extremely egregious and deserves serious consequences."