SPONSOR CHAT - WEBMASTER BOARD AND RESOURCES - 100 plus agents raid offices of National A-1 Advertising (HotMovies.com)

10-27-2010, 06:23 PM	#1
TheButcher Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: On SponsorChat.com Posts: 45,514 \| Points: 5293.0 (Donate)	100 plus agents raid offices of National A-1 Advertising (HotMovies.com) I just read this article and had to share it. http://business.avn.com/articles/Ho...ice-416190.html Posted Oct 27th, 2010 08:56 AMPHILADELPHIA—Over 100 officers, including FBI agents as well as Pennsylvania and Philadelphia police, raided National A-1 Advertising (home of HotMovies.com) at 9am this morning, AVN has learned. Armed with search warrants, the officers detained about 120 employees and released them before noon Eastern time. HotMovies.com's sites are temporarily down while the agencies continue an all-day search of the company's premises, according to James Cybert, Director of Marketing for HotMovies.com. ADVERTISEMENT Cybert is unaware of the nature of the investigation, since the agents refused to show him the contents of the search warrants, but company president Richard Cohen is apparently still in the building with the officers. Some of the sites affected by the raid are HotMovies.com, HomegrownVOD.com, AVNVOD.com, ElegantAngelVOD.com, ExtremeVOD.com, GayMovies.com, GroobyVOD.com, EdPowersVOD.com, BuckAngelVOD.com and more than a dozen others. As this is written, none of those sites could be accessed, presumably because they are all whitelabeled VOD sites operated by HotMovies. More details to come. UPDATE - 10:15am HotMovies.com Director of Marketing James Cybert posted the following comment to his Facebook page at approximately 10am EDT. “Thx everyone. still no new news. waiting on the agents to leave so we can asses the situation. still thinking we'll be back online late today/tonight.”

10-27-2010, 06:46 PM	#2
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10-27-2010, 07:05 PM	#3
PornGuy Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 363 \| Points: 10.0 (Donate)	Dont know but that sounds a bit fishy to me. __________________ PornGuy ICQ me at 174228679 AmateurDough

10-27-2010, 07:37 PM	#4
oscer Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 605 \| Points: 392.0 (Donate)	would be interesting to find out ... is there not a place online to lookup warrants? __________________ XR Networks Dedicated \| VPS \| Shared Hosting ICQ 42602565 Free Adult Blog Hosting

10-27-2010, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by oscer

would be interesting to find out ... is there not a place online to lookup warrants?

I don't recall seeing a site like that.

10-28-2010, 01:02 AM	#6
BJ LEVEL 3 Join Date: Sep 2010 Posts: 3,644 \| Points: 2065.0 (Donate)	That sounds like it was planned for a while, organizing that many agents is a job and a half. __________________ Sex is normal don't let anyone tell you otherwise

10-28-2010, 01:02 PM	#7
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10-29-2010, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by 24PORN7

Anyone get arested?

The websites are back up so what was that all about?

10-30-2010, 03:02 PM	#9
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10-31-2010, 12:12 AM	#10
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