Rentboy CEO Jeffrey Hurant indicted on prostitution charges

The former CEO of Rentboy.com, Jeffrey Hurant, 51, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn on Wednesday on a charge of promoting prostitution, as well as two other money laundering charges.

Last year in August, Jeffrey and six of employees were arrested during a sting operation in Manhattan conducted by Homeland Security with alongside the NYPD. Yesterday’s indictment did not name the six employees, though Reuters reports a spokeswoman for Brooklyn U.S. Attorney Robert Capers said the criminal complaint against them remains pending.

Hurant’s attorney, Michael Tremonte, plans to contest the charges and hopes for “full vindication at trial.”

“The government’s charges against Mr. Hurant are unwarranted. He ran his business openly for nearly 20 years, and it makes no sense to single him out for criminal prosecution,” Tremonte said.

We can’t help but roll our eyes, cross our arms, and deliver some serious side eye action to the people behind this raid. Does Homeland Security have nothing better to do? Yes, they do. Were these men terrorizing the community? No, they weren’t. 

We aren’t the only ones that feel this way, due to the oddly targeted nature of the crackdown. The legal complaint is even using anything to make these people look like sexual deviants with prosecutors listing various fetishes from profile pages, including “diapers, sneakers, spanking, watersports, leather,” for no apparent reason other than shock value.

Just so you know, none of those things are illegal.

We hope things will turn around for Jeffrey during the trial, but that might be wishful thinking at this point.