Jeffrey Hurrant's statement "
On Friday, the 7th of October, 2016 I pleaded guilty to the charge of promoting prostitution using the facilities of interstate commerce.
It was a major step towards putting what has been the darkest period in my entire life behind me. I am very grateful for the deep and real support you have shown for me, the other defendants and Rentboy.com itself.
To everyone who was negatively affected by the raid, I say that I am sorry. We tried our best with pride and integrity, but perhaps we were ahead of our time, and a sadly a little too proud inside the safe confines of our pink bubble. There will be a brighter future ahead for all of us.
After anger, denial, bargaining, depression and bouts of acceptance I arrived at humility. From a sincere place of humbleness, I recited the following before Judge Levy in Brooklyn Federal Court:
My name is Jeffrey David Hurant. I am 51 years old. I hereby plead guilty with the following allocution:
"Between January 1996 and August 2015, I owned and operated a website called Rentboy.com.
I agreed with others to accept payments from multiple advertisers and promoted their exchange of sexual conduct in return for a fee in violation of New York State law."