SAN DIEGO– The FBI announced earlier today that it had put fugitive GirlsDoPorn owner Michael Pratt on its “Leading Ten The majority of Wanted” list, and also doubled the incentive for his capture to $100,000.

As XBIZ reported, the FBI had previously raised the initial reward to $50,000 in Oct. 2021.

Today the government police announced by means of its website that it is currently “using a benefit of up to $100,000 for info causing the arrest of Michael James Pratt.”

According to his “Top 10 Most Wanted” biography– consisted of alongside photos as component of a poster which can be downloaded by the public and also neighborhood police groups to elevate recognition of the fugitive and also the incentive–“from roughly 2012 to 2019, Michael James Pratt and also others presumably participated in a conspiracy to recruit young adult as well as small females to participate in business sex acts forcibly, fraudulence and threat.”

According to the Bureau, “Pratt and a co-conspirator possessed and run a pornography production business and online porn web sites, ‘GirlsDoPorn’ and also ‘GirlsDoToys.’ Pratt and also his accomplices apparently hired young women from around the USA and Canada by publishing incorrect web promotions for dressed modeling work, which the targets later found were pornographic productions.”

Pratt, the “Wanted” bio continues, “additionally apparently paid various other girls working at his and his co-conspirators’ direction to function as referrals and provide false assurances to the women that, if they shot a x-rated video, the video clip would certainly not be published online. Some females were presumably not permitted to leave the shooting areas till the videos were completed, others were apparently forced to execute sex acts they had declined to perform, and also some females were apparently sexually assaulted.”

The FBI also kept in mind that “Pratt’s porn internet sites created more than $17 million U.S. dollars in income” which “a federal apprehension warrant was provided for Pratt in the USA Area Court, Southern District of The Golden State, on November 6, 2019.”

The Bureau is encouraging tipsters that might have any kind of info worrying Pratt to get in touch with the local FBI workplace or the local American Consular office or Consular Office.

As Accomplices Plead Guilty, Pratt Still Fugitive

On July 26, Matthew Wolfe, the second-in-command for the shuttered GirlsDoPorn site, pleaded guilty in San Diego federal court to a solitary count of conspiracy to devote sex trafficking.

Wolf was Pratt’s major partner. Pratt, a New Zealand nationwide, left the united state prior to federal charges versus the firm and also its employees were unsealed in 2019.

Wolfe, the San Diego Daily Tribune noted in July, admitted as part of his appeal that “he realized that the names and also social media accounts for some ladies were uploaded on one more internet site controlled by Pratt [recognized in various other court documents as PornWikiLeaks.com] resulting in serious harassment of the women by net trolls. Still, Wolfe as well as others remained to assure employees that their video clips, and also determines, would certainly remain secret.”

The January 2019 federal charge named Pratt, male talent and precursor Ruben Andre “Dre” Garcia, Wolfe and 3 others as accomplices in the GDP operation.

In June 2021, Garcia was punished to two decades after pleading guilty in December 2020 to the charges of conspiracy theory to devote sex trafficking by force, fraud and coercion; and also sex trafficking forcibly, scams as well as coercion.

Pratt has been a fugitive from U.S. government authorities given that late 2019 and was last presumed to be in his indigenous New Zealand 2 years earlier.

While Pratt’s location are still unidentified, San Diego FBI speaker Special Agent William McNamara mentioned in July that “we understand there are individuals that are aiding Pratt.”

For XBIZ’s continuous coverage of the GDP case, click below.