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2 7 Registration, the agent says he obtained Dr. Smith's bank account records and noted that Dr. Smith was making payments to backpage.com , a site the agent writes is "commonly used by individu- als to offer sexual services in exchange for money." After getting records from the website of the individual adver- tisements connected to Dr. Smith's bank account, the agent believed "the ads paid for by Smith were for prostitution services." The agent says the records of backpage.com showed that the advertisements with connections to Dr. Smith's bank account were also linked to complexes where Dr. Smith either rented or leased apartments or condominiums, and also traced back to computers at Dr. Smith's home or to facilities he worked at, including Overlake Medical Center. "The results lead me to believe that Smith was utiliz- ing his personal or professional Internet access to post these commercial-sex advertisements," writes the agent. At first, Dr. Smith used his own name while posting the ads, the agent writes, before switching to an alias, "Jesse Blue." In more than a year, court documents say, he paid around $10,000 to post 116 advertisements on backpage.com . $426,000 in one year alone Investigators then say that throughout 2013, several agents used these online advertise- S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 4 | O U T P AT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E

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