Well Soliciting Prostitution is not a federal crime in the US however what the AG and other LE officials do to get around that is go after people under The Trav

Well Soliciting Prostitution is not a federal crime in the US however what the AG and other LE officials do to get around that is go after people under The Travel Act. This is where fifty of the ninety three charges against the Backpage founder where put to nail him "for prostitution" because the Travel Act allows prosecutors to charge people with a Federal crime for violating a state crime if they cross state borders. That use of the Travel Act to combat prostitution has been used to get any site they wanted to shut down. In other words, since Congress isn't about to reign them in nor the courts prosecutors at the Federal level can do about what they please. This is not to say backpage was innocent, only in how non Federal crimes can become such by stretching intent