episode description
An hour-long investigation into mugshot extortion websites and the use of public records used for profit. Our investigative team goes after the elusive owners of mughots.com, a website that takes mugshots, posts them on their site and then ask for hundreds of dollars to remove them. Along the way we discover that it's not just sleazy websites misuing mugshots, it's legit newspapers and local tv stations posting mugshots on their own site, generating their own revenue.
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