Founder of California-Based Pornography Empire Sentenced to 27 Years in Prison on Sex Trafficking Charge

The founder of a California-based porn empire that recruited women with false modeling offers was sentenced Monday to 27 years in federal prison.

Michael James Pratt pleaded guilty in June in federal court in San Diego. Federal prosecutors said Pratt and his co-defendants used force, fraud and coercion to recruit hundreds of women, many of whom were in their late teens, for their adult videos.

The San Diego Union-Tribune reported that U.S. District Judge Janis Sammartino sentenced Pratt on one charge of sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion and one count of conspiracy to commit the same crime.

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