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`Exhibit V
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`From:
`To:
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`Ernie Allen
`Ann Scofield
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`Subject:
`Date:
`Attachments:
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`FW: Kristof on Backpage
`Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:06:00 AM
`Women's Women Foundation Strib.docx
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`Adapt for me.
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`From: Cordelia Anderson [mailto:cordelia@visi.com]
`Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 4:34 PM
`To: Ernie Allen; Patty Wetterling; Sharon Cooper; Sharon Cooper
`Subject: RE: Kristof on Backpage
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`All this attention is representing what | hope is a norms change and major pressure on them to
`change or at least in the mean time for many more to question “how can this possibly be legal?”
`Read the last few paragraphs of the front page attention Mondayto the Strib article about the
`Women’s Foundation funding.
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`We are also trying to amp up our efforts to get Mpls to make the zoning changes St Paul made re
`the businesses surrounding the sportsfacilities that profit from commercial sexual exploitation
`“gentleman’s clubs”
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`Cordelia Anderson, M.A.
`Director, Sensibilities
`Currently Consulting with:
`- MN Coalition Against Sexual Assault(MNCASA)
`- National Children's Advocacy Centers
`Past-President, National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse & Exploitation
`4405 Garfield Avenue South
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`Minneapolis, Minnesota 55419
`612-824-6217 h/w
`612-207-1779cell
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`http://www.cordeliaanderson.com/
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`Stnalliies
`Peevenmin Serices
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`From: Ernie Allen [mailto:EALLEN@ncmec.org]
`Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 2:51 PM
`To: Patty Wetterling; Sharon Cooper; Cordelia Anderson; Sharon Cooper
`Subject: RE: Kristof on Backpage
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`Patty:
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`They know they are in the prostitution business, but they feel protected and insulated by the civil
`immunity provided by the Communications Decency Actfor Internet “publishers.” When | had my
`contentious meeting with their leaders a year ago, they said to me, “we will do everything possible to
`keepthe kids off our site, but adult prostitution is none of your business.” In my meeting with the
`Attorney General, | argued that while they might have civil immunity, | didn’t understand how that
`protected them from criminal prosecution.
`| argued that they werefacilitating a criminal enterprise, a
`federal crime. Several weekslater, the AG sent prosecutors from his Criminal Division along with
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`CONFIDENTIAL MATERIALS PRODUCED PURSUANT
`TO 05-16-17 LETTER REQUEST FROM U.S. DOJ
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`NCMEC000383
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`DOJ-BP-0004570397
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`several FBI agents to NCMEC to meet with me. What they said was that they didn’t think that
`Backpage’s actions roseto the level of criminal culpability. They warned users about misuse of the
`site, made people click on answers promising not to do anything wrong, etc. DOJfelt that their
`activities did not generate the requisite “intent” to hold them criminally accountable. Clearly,
`| don’t
`agree. However, | also understand the sensitivity on the part of the administration about doing
`anything that looks like Internet censorship. Look at the uproar generated by Hollywood’s attempt to
`deal with online piracy; i.e., Google blacks out their logo, Wikipedia shuts down for a day, etc.
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`| am hopeful that the pressure is growing. My friends sent me an article today that indicated that a
`New York movie house which has advertised in Village Voice for years announced today that they
`would no longer advertise in VV due to the Kristof article.
`| will forward you the article.
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`Onestep at a time, butit is frustrating.
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`Ernie
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`From: Wetterling, Patty (MDH) [mailto:Patty.Wetterling@state.mn.us]
`Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 12:53 PM
`To: Sharon Cooper; Ernie Allen; Cordelia Anderson; Sharon Cooper
`Subject: RE: Kristof on Backpage
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`| don’t understand how Backpage can’t see that their profit off of the sale of these girls puts them
`in the same category as the pimps themselves.
`It is so important that the pressure continues...
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`Thanks for sharing Ernie,
`Patty
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`[mailto:sharon
`From: Cooper, Sharon Watkins
`Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 6:05 PM
`To: Ernie Allen; Cordelia Anderson; Wetterling, Patty (MDH); Sharon Cooper
`Subject: RE: Kristof on Backpage
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`Ernie et al,
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`The paragraph about Charles Hynes having prosecuted notrafficking cases and then in one year
`indicting 32 people (nearly 3 a month) is an endorsement that we need to continue to education state
`investigators on how to recognize the real offender.
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`ECPATUSA has a new video out called What I Have Been Through is Not Who I Am which I am already
`using in trainings on this topic. Carol Smolenski kindly got one to me shortly after it was released. The
`video highlighted an interesting report from DePaul College of Law on interviews of ex-pimps. Thought
`this might add ammunition to this ongoing battle.
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`Sharon
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`From: Ernie Allen [EALLEN@ncmec.org]
`Sent: Sunday, January 29, 2012 10:51 AM
`To: Cordelia Anderson; Patty Wetterling; Sharon Cooper
`Subject: FW: Kristof on Backpage
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`Cordelia, Patty, Sharon:
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`In the event that you didn’t see Nicholas Kristofs columm in Thursday’s New York Times, | am passing
`it along.
`It is extraordinary.
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`CONFIDENTIAL MATERIALS PRODUCED PURSUANT
`TO 05-16-17 LETTER REQUEST FROM U.S. DOJ
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`NCMEC000384
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`DOJ-BP-0004570398
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