Everyone knew that Rentboy served to connect mostly cis male male escorts to their clients, even though no financial transactions were made on the site. Rentboy had existed for 18 years when DHS raided it, and there was nothing secretive about the site. Meanwhile, in another part of New York City, TT Baum, the brand manager of Rentboy’s massage site,, and about a dozen other Rentboy employees were working in the company's corporate office when DHS agents unlocked the front door and ransacked the place, Hurant and Baum said. After letting him get dressed, they cuffed him and placed him in a van. None of the agents would tell him why this was happening. Hurant-who was the CEO of Rentboy, a website for men seeking male escorts-watched as every electronic device he owned was hauled away.
They stomped into Hurant’s house, moving from room to room seizing computers, flash drives, Kindles-anything they could find that could possibly contain the data they were looking for.
