PHOENIX (AP) — The former chief executive for the now-shuttered classified site Backpage.com was sentenced Tuesday to three years of probation and ordered to pay $40,000 in restitution for conspiring to facilitate prostitution by selling sex ads.

The judge also declined a prosecutor’s request to sentence the company’s former sale director to probation or order him to pay restitution, since he had pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge.

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