A New Zealander who was behind a production company which tricked women into becoming online porn stars—making him $17 million (NZ$30 million) before he was caught—is now facing the prospect of having $770,000 (NZ$1.3 million) in cryptocurrency seized by American authorities as he awaits trial for sex trafficking.
It isn’t often a New Zealander makes the FBI’s top ten most wanted fugitives list, but Michael James Pratt achieved that distinction.
Straight out of the elite Christchurch Boys’ High, Pratt and his close friend Matthew Isaac Wolfe went into business together.
Like many late 90s startups, they chose the internet. But unlike most, they went into the fast-growing online porn industry….