How Goldman Sachs Invested in Child Sex TraffickingS  Investment
bank Goldman Sachs isn't one of America's most popular
institutions right now—given the country's anti-Wall Street
sentiment and their participation in the near total collapse of
the global economy. And now things are about to get a teensy bit
worse for them. After a little digging, Nick Kristof of the New
York Times has uncovered that Goldman Sachs is a stakeholder in
the company which runs, a website he calls "the biggest forum
for sex trafficking of under-age girls in the United States." Oh
no. Calling clients Muppets is bad, but facilitating the rape of
children is about as low as it gets.  So, let's look at the
grisly details. is owned by a company called Village Voice
Media, which also owns the famous Village Voice newspaper. It
was never previously clear who exactly the owners of Village
Voice Media are until Kristof went prying and found out that, in
fact, it is owned by private equity financiers, one of which is
Goldman Sachs. They have