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The CEO of Rentboy.com is breaking his silence months after federal agents raided the gay escort website's office in New York City.

The saga of former gay male escort website Rentboy.com continued Wednesday when its founder and CEO, Jeffrey Hurant, 51, was indicted by a federal grand jury in Brooklyn on charges of money laundering and promoting prostitution, Reuters reports.

(AP) The chief executive officer of a once-popular male escort website pleaded guilty on Friday to promoting prostitution in a federal case that prompted accusations of anti-gay bias.

Two years since the government first set their sights on the gay escort site, Rentboy.com CEO Jeffrey Hurant will face time behind bars.

(EDGE) It's been nearly two years since Rentboy.com became such a priority for the Department of Homeland Security that after operating in plain sight for two decades, it was raided and shuttered by the government. With sentencing set for Friday, it looks as though the saga of the mega gay escort website, which many viewed as a witch hunt against sex workers, may finally come to an end with its CEO Jeffrey Hurant facing time in prison, Gay City News reports.