Anton “Tony” Lazzaro, a former GOP donor and strategist, has been found guilty on all counts in a federal sex trafficking trial.
A jury convicted him on one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of a minor and five counts of sex trafficking of a minor on Friday after roughly three and a half hours of deliberation.
“Anton Lazzaro was Minnesota’s Jeffrey Epstein, and now he’s going to prison for a very long time,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Melinda Williams said during a news conference.
Prosecutors say Lazzaro used his wealth and political status to lure minor girls to his luxury condo in downtown Minneapolis, where he offered them cash in exchange for sex.
During his own testimony, Lazzaro, 32, admitted to having sex with five minor girls identified as victims in the indictment but denied paying them for sex.
U.S. Attorney Andrew Luger applauded the victims who came forward to testify during the trial.
“Phones, texts, pictures are all now part of every case that we do, and they were important as you saw in the courtroom part of this case, but let’s not discount what live testimony by brave young women will do because that’s always the backbone of any case,” Luger said.
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