{"id":1539469,"date":"2022-07-05T09:19:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T13:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1539469"},"modified":"2022-07-05T09:20:08","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T13:20:08","slug":"new-top-biden-staffer-defended-underage-prostitution-website-raided-by-feds-in-2015-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-top-biden-staffer-defended-underage-prostitution-website-raided-by-feds-in-2015-article\/","title":{"rendered":"New Top Biden Staffer Defended Underage Prostitution Website Raided by Feds in 2015 Article"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-top-biden-staffer-defended-underage-prostitution-website-raided-by-feds-in-2015-article%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1539469&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div class=\"code-block code-block-8\">\n<p><\/div>\n<p>A recent, high-level hire at the Department of Energy\u2019s Office of Nuclear Energy defended a controversial gay prostitution website with a track record of allowing children to be promoted for sexual services on the platform, The National Pulse can reveal.<\/p>\n<p>The revelations, from unearthed op-ed, follow The National Pulse expos\u00e9 of appointee Samuel Brinton\u2019s past as a drag queen, LGBTQ+ activist who has \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/02\/10\/biden-nuclear-official-is-kink-lecturing-beastiality-rolepayer\/\">lectured<\/a>\u201d on kink at college campuses and participated in interviews about fetish roleplay.<\/p>\n<p>In an article <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/dQ8sq\">published<\/a> on September 15th on the pro-LGBT+ website Advocate, Biden\u2019s latest top nuclear hire dives into a defense of the \u201cRentboy.com\u201d website, which shuttered following an August 2015 illegal prostitution raid. \u201cRentboy\u201d is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/dictionary\/english\/rent-boy\">colloquial term<\/a> for young men who have sex with older men in exchange for money, often under dubious circumstances.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c\u2026the dissolution of Rentboy is more dangerous than the website ever was.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Biden appointee Sam Brinton.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Brinton, who now serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Spent Fuel and Waste Disposition in the <a title=\"Office of Nuclear Energy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Office_of_Nuclear_Energy\">Office of Nuclear Energy<\/a>, defended \u201cRentboy.com\u201d in a\u00a0September 2nd, 2015 op-ed in\u00a0<em>Advocate\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/dQ8sq\">magazine<\/a>: \u201c<em>The Real Ramifications of the Rentboy Raid.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advocate.com\/commentary\/2015\/09\/02\/op-ed-real-ramifications-rentboy-raid\">article<\/a> followed Department of Homeland Security officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/largest-online-male-escort-service-rentboy-com-raided\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">raiding Rentboy\u2019s Manhattan offices<\/a> and arresting chief executive Jeffrey Hurant and six employees on charges of promoting prostitution. The following year, the CEO of the site, which connected male prostitutes and escorts with potential clients, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-crime-rentboy\/u-s-indicts-ex-rentboy-com-ceo-on-prostitution-charge-idUSKCN0V52GW\">indicted<\/a> on a charge of promoting prostitution which he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/862790\/rentboy-com-ceo-pleads-guilty-to-promoting-prostitution.html\">ultimately<\/a> pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of New York\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/296969240\/Rentboy-Indictment\">indictment<\/a> also revealed the site\u2019s negligence regarding underage sex work, particularly across Asia.<\/p>\n<p>It detailed how Rentboy employees described the age verification process as a \u201cgray area,\u201d as they \u201cdid not always remove advertisements when the advertisers failed to provide identification.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn one case, after an escort agency failed to provide photo identification for an escort, a RENTBOY.COM employee advised the escort agency that he had deleted photographs with the face of the subject escort, but left the advertisement online and left photographs that showed only the escort\u2019s body,\u201d explained the indictment.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/06\/20\/national-security-adviser-reveals-tax-dollars-funding-seized-russian-yacht-upkeep-on-hot-mic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"ua50f114a2d58ba1ad3f81205bc3a388b\"><\/p>\n<style scoped> .ua50f114a2d58ba1ad3f81205bc3a388b { padding:0px; 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font-size: 16px; } .ua50f114a2d58ba1ad3f81205bc3a388b:hover .postTitle { text-decoration: underline!important; } <\/style>\n<div><span class=\"ctaText\">MUST READ:<\/span>\u00a0 <span class=\"postTitle\">HOT MIC: Joe Biden&#8217;s National Security Adviser Admits YOUR Tax Dollars Are Paying for the Upkeep of Seized Russian Yachts.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_39224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39224\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fundrealnews.com\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Please support our work exposing the establishment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\">\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn another case, after a different escort agency refused to provide identification for several escorts who appeared underage, the same RENTBOY.COM employee \u201csuggested to [him] to crop the faces of those super young escorts,\u201d continued the indictment, which also noted that the company never reported the cases to law enforcement agencies.<\/p>\n<p>Concerning posts in Asia, Rentboy \u201cfailed to comply with its own standards requiring age verification,\u201d even ignoring \u201cemployees [who] complained to RENTBOY.COM management about the quantity of underage escort advertisements.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41262\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41262\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41262 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-02-at-4.45.31-PM-800x172.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"172\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-02-at-4.45.31-PM-800x172.png 800w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-02-at-4.45.31-PM-1160x250-1.png 1160w, https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-02-at-4.45.31-PM-480x103.png 480w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-02-at-4.45.31-PM.png 1000w\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41262\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indictment.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Despite the deeply concerning developments, Brinton wrote in defense of the website:<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026sex work disproportionately affects the LGBT community. Transgender people engage in sex work at a rate 10 times that of cisgender (nontrans) women. And many LGBT youth engage in sex work just to survive. A 2013 Center for American Progress report suggests that LGBT youth are more than three times as likely to have engaged in survival sex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn another email, another RENTBOY.COM employee speaking about the Asia-market ads said \u201cChrist \u2026 talk about copyrighted and underage pies! TONS in that area \u2026 ALWAYS,\u201d detailed the indictment, which also revealed that company executives never acted on these concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, \u201cRENTBOY.COM employees reviewing Asia advertisements were also told by the defendant JEFFREY HURANT and other RENTBOY.COM managers to apply lesser standards in doing age verification of Asia-market advertisements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs was summarized in one email, \u201cIn Asia ok to approve them \u2026 unless you see a baby \u2026 : ),\u201d continued the indictment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_41261\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-41261\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-41261\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-02-at-4.31.05-PM-800x576-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"649\" height=\"467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-02-at-4.31.05-PM-800x576-1.png 800w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-02-at-4.31.05-PM-1160x835-1.png 1160w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-02-at-4.31.05-PM-1536x1106-1.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-02-at-4.31.05-PM-480x346-1.png 480w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screen-Shot-2022-07-02-at-4.31.05-PM.png 1000w\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-41261\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brinton\u2019s op-ed.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brinton firmly defended the company, claiming that \u201cthe dissolution of Rentboy is more dangerous than the website ever was,\u201d and concluding:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The rent boys weren\u2019t harming anyone. But now these young men might have to return to communities and homes which have rejected who they are. And that\u2019s when the real danger begins.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.advocate.com\/%5Bprimary-topic-path-raw%5D\/2015\/08\/26\/watch-rentboy-ceo-defends-embattled-business\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">federal government\u2019s recent attack on Rentboy.com<\/a>\u00a0is a devastating assault on some of the most vulnerable members of our community \u2014 young adults who, for the first time in their lives, were able to earn a secure living safely through\u00a0Rentboy after surviving family rejection and homelessness because of their sexual orientation or gender identity,\u201d begins the article.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2022\/06\/20\/national-security-adviser-reveals-tax-dollars-funding-seized-russian-yacht-upkeep-on-hot-mic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"ua5884727e497defd8aa259de2c896635\"><\/p>\n<style scoped> .ua5884727e497defd8aa259de2c896635 { padding:0px; margin: 0; padding-top:1em!important; padding-bottom:1em!important; width:100%; display: block; font-weight:bold; background-color:#eaeaea; border:0!important; border-left:4px solid #34495E!important; box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -o-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); -webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.17); text-decoration:none; } .ua5884727e497defd8aa259de2c896635:active, .ua5884727e497defd8aa259de2c896635:hover { opacity: 1; transition: opacity 250ms; webkit-transition: opacity 250ms; text-decoration:none; } .ua5884727e497defd8aa259de2c896635 { transition: background-color 250ms; webkit-transition: background-color 250ms; opacity: 0.95; transition: opacity 250ms; webkit-transition: opacity 250ms; } .ua5884727e497defd8aa259de2c896635 .ctaText { font-weight:bold; color:#C0392B; text-decoration:none; font-size: 16px; } .ua5884727e497defd8aa259de2c896635 .postTitle { color:#000000; text-decoration: underline!important; font-size: 16px; } .ua5884727e497defd8aa259de2c896635:hover .postTitle { text-decoration: underline!important; } <\/style>\n<div><span class=\"ctaText\">MUST READ:<\/span>\u00a0 <span class=\"postTitle\">HOT MIC: Joe Biden&#8217;s National Security Adviser Admits YOUR Tax Dollars Are Paying for the Upkeep of Seized Russian Yachts.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u201cRentboy.com may or may not have broken the law. I don\u2019t know,\u201d concedes Brinton, adding \u201cbut I do know, from the frantic emails filling my inbox, that the raid on its headquarters has thrown many gay, bisexual, and transgender young adults into turmoil as their main source of income has been ripped away due to irresponsible and archaic views of sex work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brinton is also an active member of the Washington, D.C. chapter of a <a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2020\/03\/03\/aocs-fav-drag-queen\/\">drag queen<\/a>\u00a0society known as the \u201cSisters of Perpetual Indulgence,\u201d which lists him as the principal contact on its 2016 and 2018 tax\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apps.irs.gov\/app\/eos\/detailsPage?ein=810683059&#038;name=The%20Dc%20Sisters%20-%20Abbey%20of%20Magnifice%20Nt%20Intentions&#038;city=Washington&#038;state=DC&#038;countryAbbr=US&#038;dba=&#038;type=CHARITIES,%20DETERMINATIONLETTERS,%20EPOSTCARD&#038;orgTags=CHARITIES&#038;orgTags=DETERMINATIONLETTERS&#038;orgTags=EPOSTCARD\">forms<\/a>. During the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thenationalpulse.com\/2017\/11\/20\/storytelling-drag-queens-coming-soon-public-library-near-you\/\">group\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0\u201cLavender Mass 2021,\u201d Brinton can be seen referring to Anthony Fauci, who was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YIo3nQ-ougk?t=635\">declared<\/a>\u00a0a \u201csaint,\u201d as \u201cDaddy Fauci.\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<div>\n<p>The new Biden-Harris nuclear official has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/lgbtqreligiousarchives.org\/profiles\/sam-brinton\">involved<\/a>\u00a0in LGBTQ+\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=drag+queen+national+pulse&#038;spell=1&#038;sa=X&#038;ved=2ahUKEwi7tae_4eH4AhVoGVkFHbb-Ck8QBSgAegQIARAy&#038;biw=1440&#038;bih=768&#038;dpr=2\">activism<\/a> since college and was interviewed by <em>Metro Weekly<\/em>\u00a0about the group, where he emphasized he is the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.metroweekly.com\/2015\/05\/sisters-act-meet-the-d-c-order-of-the-sisters-of-perpetual-indulgence\/9\/\">\u201cslutty one\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Sisters mission is in complete alignment with my passion for removing the guilt people feel every day (unjustly placed on them, let your freak flag fly!) and the joy the Sisters bring is so, so, so beautiful,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20170708031332\/http:\/\/www.metroweekly.com\/2016\/01\/puppy-love-mid-atlantic-leather-2016\/\">interview<\/a>, Brinton explains how he roleplays as a \u201cpup\u201d handler.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI actually have trouble when we transition from pup play to having sex,\u201d Brinton explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike, \u2018No, I can\u2019t have you whimper like that when we\u2019re having sex,\u2019 because I don\u2019t want to mix that world. It\u2019s interesting, because he doesn\u2019t have to come out of pup mode to have me fuck him. I personally have to bring him out of pup perception for me. But then I\u2019m still treating him as a submissive to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<p><\/div>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-5\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/app.memberful.com\/join\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG-20211111-WA0000.jpg\" alt=\"Fund Real News\" \/> <\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent, high-level hire at the Department of Energy\u2019s Office of Nuclear Energy defended a controversial gay prostitution website with a track record of allowing children to be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1539556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1539469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1539469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1539469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1539556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1539469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1539469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1539469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}