GOP donor Anton Lazzaro sentenced to 21 years for sex trafficking minors in Minnesota
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Lazzaro, who has said the charges against him were politically motivated, maintained his innocence, denying that he paid any of the girls explicitly for sex.
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Lazzaro, who has said the charges against him were politically motivated, maintained his innocence, denying that he paid any of the girls explicitly for sex.
Judge Patrick Schiltz noted the “soulless, almost mechanical nature” of Anton “Tony” Lazzaro’s scheme. “It is almost as if Mr. Lazzaro set up a sex-trafficking assembly line,” the judge said.
A formerly well-connected GOP donor convicted of giving teenage girls gifts, alcohol and money in exchange for sex was sentenced Wednesday to 21 years in prison on sex trafficking charges.
A former GOP donor in Minnesota who has been compared to Jeffrey Epstein will spend more than two decades behind minors for sex trafficking teen girls.
