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Jun 22, 2026

Human Trafficking & Child Exploitation at Airbnb Rentals in Santa Clara — Attorney911 Holds Short-Term Rental Platforms Accountable Under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, We Preserve Booking Logs, Guest Messaging, and Financial Records Before They Are Deleted, California’s Comparative-Fault Rule Means You Can Still Recover Even If You Were Partially Blamed, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Survivors of Exploitation — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

You Are Not the First Person This Has Happened To, and the Building Where It Happened Already Knows It If you are reading this, something happened in a hotel room, a short-term rental, or a vacation property in California. Maybe it was an Airbnb in Santa Clara near Levi’s Stadium during a big game. Maybe it was a roadside motel off a Bay Area freeway. Maybe it was a chain hotel whose brand is on the sign out front. Maybe it was a property management company’s “luxury rental” in a neighborhood you have never lived in. You are not alone, and the people who profited from the room you were kept in were not as surprised as they are now pretending to be. Short-term rental platforms and hotels have known for years that sex trafficking happens in their properties. They have trained their staff to spot it. They have written internal memos about it. They have partnered with anti-trafficking nonprofits in public. And the same properties, in the same weekend, in the same market, continued to rent rooms to the people who were selling you. Our firm takes those cases because the law gives survivors a real path to accountability, and because the proof that the property knew is the kind of proof that disappears in thirty days if no one moves fast. We represent trafficking survivors and the families of those who did not survive, in hotel and short-term rental cases throughout California, including the Bay Area, Santa Clara…

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Jun 22, 2026

Sex Trafficking Survivor H.E.W. Sues Wyndham & Other Hotel Chains Under TVPRA for Seven Months of Beatings, Drugging & Forced Sex Acts at Austin Budget Motels Along I-35 & US-183 — Attorney911 Brings Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice to Hold the Franchisors & Operators Who Knew or Should Have Known, We Preserve Guest Ledgers, Staff Training Records & Backpage.com Forensic Evidence Before the Overwrite, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies These Cases, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Injury Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

If a hotel took money from your trafficking, the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act may give you ten years to make them answer for it If you are reading this, you may be the survivor, or the parent, sibling, or friend of someone who was trafficked for sex at one or more hotels in the Austin area. You may have walked into a front desk that looked clean, professional, even safe. You may have used a room night after night — or you may have been moved from one to another along the I-35 or US-183 corridor. You may have heard “no fee unless we win” before and not trusted it. We get it. This page is written for the moment you are sitting in right now. We are going to walk you through what the law actually says, what a hotel can be sued for even when the hotel did not commit the trafficking itself, what the deadline is, what evidence exists and how fast it disappears, what the insurance carrier is going to do the moment you call, and what we at Attorney911 actually do to move the case forward. There is no charge to talk to us. There is no fee unless we recover for you. The call is free, the consultation is free, and the only way we get paid is if we win. What the Trafficking Victims Protection Act actually does for a survivor who wants to sue a hotel The federal Trafficking Victims Protection…

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Jun 22, 2026

Orinda Halloween Airbnb Party Shooting: Wrongful Death & Negligent Security Lawsuit — Attorney911 Holds Airbnb and the Short-Term Rental Host Accountable for Five Fatalities (Oshiana Tompkins, Tiyon Farley, Omar Taylor, Ramon Hill Jr., Javin County) and Multiple Gunshot Injuries After Repeated Noise Complaints and Violations of Orinda’s 13-Person Occupancy Ordinance, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Values and Denies Mass-Casualty Cases, We Preserve Social Media Flyers, 911 Call Logs, and Neighbor Complaints Before They Disappear, California’s Wrongful-Death Act and Comparative-Fault Rule, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Injury and Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Orinda Airbnb Halloween Shooting: Why the Property Owner, the Event Host, and Airbnb May All Be Accountable for Five Deaths We know why you are reading this. Someone you love went to a Halloween party in Orinda on the night of October 31, 2019, and did not come home. The phone call you received, or the news you woke up to, told you that shots had been fired at a house party on Lucille Way, in the hills above the small Contra Costa County community, and that five people between the ages of 19 and 29 had been killed. We know what that did to your family. We know the questions that have been circling since: How did this happen? Who let it happen? Who answers for it? We are the trial team at Attorney911 — Ralph Manginello and Lupe Peña, working out of Houston but taking this kind of case anywhere the law lets us help. We do not write to you to sound tough, or to promise what we cannot deliver. We write to give you the truth, in plain language, about the legal rights you still hold, the evidence that is at risk, and the path that lies ahead. Every sentence below is built on California law, on the Contra Costa County venue, and on the facts that have been made public about that night. This is the first thing you should know: the families of those killed, and the survivors who were shot, almost certainly have…

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Jun 22, 2026

Orinda Halloween Airbnb Shooting Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds Short-Term Rental Platforms Liable for Negligent Security After 5 Fatalities & 5 Gunshot Survivors at Lucille Way Mansion Party — Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Mass-Casualty Events, We Preserve Social Media Promos, Surveillance Footage & Booking Logs Before They Vanish, California’s Comparative-Fault Rule Means Families Can Still Recover Even If Victims Were Armed, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Wrongful-Death Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Parent at the Kitchen Table in Orinda You are reading this at 1 a.m. because your phone rang the night of October 31, 2019, and the voice on the other end said your son was shot at a Halloween party in a house in your own neighborhood — a house you did not know was being rented out for a mansion party that was being advertised on social media. You drove to Lucille Way. You saw the yellow tape. The Contra Costa County Sheriff’s deputies were still there. Some of the people you grew up with were carried out on stretchers. Five young people never came home. Five more were wounded. The rest of the night, and the weeks after, are a kind of blur that has not lifted. Now, years later, the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s office has declined to file criminal charges against the five men that deputies arrested. The DA’s announcement reads, in part, that the office will “need more information” in order to file charges. A sheriff’s spokesman said, “We stand by our investigation.” That left your family with a feeling that the system you trusted had moved on, and the only thing left was a civil case against the parties who profited from a dangerous weekend gathering that was advertised openly on Instagram and other platforms, and the platform that hosts the listings, and the local property owner, and the host who checked the guests in. We are Attorney911 — The Manginello Law…

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Jun 22, 2026

$17.5M Settlement for Three Women Trafficked as Minors at Northeast Philadelphia Hotels — Attorney911 Holds Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and the Owners of Motel 6, Days Inn, and North American Motor Inn Accountable for Failing to Stop Ongoing Criminal Exploitation, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Trafficking Cases, We Preserve Police Call Logs and Guest Records Before They Disappear, Trafficking Victims Protection Act and Pennsylvania’s Premises Liability Doctrine, the Firm Has Recovered Millions in Catastrophic Injury Cases — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Three Philadelphia Hotels, Three Women Trafficked as Minors, and the Federal Law That Made the Hotel Industry Pay We write this page for the survivor reading it at 2 a.m., the mother who has just found out what happened in the room she paid for, and the advocate who knows the truth has been sitting in a hotel ledger for years. This page is about what the law actually says when a national hotel chain profits from a room where a child is sold, and what we do about it. Between May 2015 and January 2017, three women, all minors at the time, were sex-trafficked at three hotels along Roosevelt Boulevard in Northeast Philadelphia: the Motel 6, the Days Inn, and the North American Motor Inn. The hotels collected room revenue from the men who paid to sexually abuse those young women. Philadelphia police visited these properties again and again. The women who survived filed suit under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, and on the eve of trial, the hotels agreed to pay $17.5 million. The companies did not admit liability. The families did not need them to. The federal civil-remedy statute, 18 U.S.C. § 1595, lets a survivor reach past the trafficker to any business that knowingly benefited from the venture. We have spent years representing people exactly like the three women in this case, in hotels along Roosevelt Boulevard and across Pennsylvania. This page is the law we would walk you through on the first call, the evidence…

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Jun 22, 2026

Historic Red Roof Inn Sex Trafficking Settlement in Atlanta: Attorney911 Holds National Hotel Chains Accountable for Years of Corporate Knowledge and Profit from Trafficking at Cobb & Fulton County Properties, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice & Lupe Peña’s Insider Knowledge of How the Hospitality Industry’s Claims Machine Operates, We Preserve Guest Folios, Surveillance Footage & Staffing Records Before They Vanish, TVPRA Violations & Georgia Premises Liability Law for Survivors of Sex Trafficking & Prostitution Victimization — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

The Night Nobody Wrote Down If you were twenty-three years old and somebody handed you a key to a room at a Red Roof Inn off the South Cobb Parkway in Smyrna, and a man at the front desk took cash from the person who drove you there and did not ask for your ID, and the man who brought you came back with a different girl the next night, and the next, and the next, and that pattern repeated for weeks or months at the same motel, then one night years later a lawyer asked you to sit down and tell the truth about it — what you would say is not a story about a bad night. It is a story about a business that took your money and the money of the person who hurt you and watched what was happening and did nothing. Eleven women did exactly that. They waited nearly five years to bring their case. They sat through a three-week trial in a federal courtroom in Atlanta. They watched a corporate defense team from a national motel chain argue that the chain should not be held responsible for what its franchisee’s employees saw, signed for, and looked past. They did not have to hear a verdict. On the eve of resolution, the corporation settled. Every one of those eleven women, according to the lawyers who tried the case, wanted their story heard in a public forum. They got that. They also got something else:…

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Jun 22, 2026

Child Sex Trafficking at a Stockbridge, Georgia Days Inn — Attorney911 Holds Wyndham Hotels & Resorts and the Hotel Operator Accountable Under Federal TVPRA and Georgia’s Premises Liability Law, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Handles Trafficking Cases, We Preserve the Front-Desk Logs and Surveillance Footage Before the Overwrite, $5M+ Recovered for Survivors of Severe Psychological Trauma and Sexual Exploitation — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

A Hotel That Watched and Took the Money: What the Stockbridge Days Inn Settlement Really Means If you are reading this, you or someone you love may have been hurt at a hotel where adults should have stopped what was happening and did not. You might be the parent of a child who came home changed. You might be an adult survivor still carrying what happened in that room. You might be a relative wondering if what you suspect is enough to call a lawyer. We want to speak directly to that person, because the case in Stockbridge, Georgia is not an abstract news story. It is the same playbook that runs through the I-75 corridor, through every highway-adjacent budget motel, through every property that was warned and kept renting rooms. Our firm has built a trial practice around holding these operators and the brands on the sign accountable, and we want to walk you through what happened, what the law actually allows, and what you can do today. A Days Inn in Stockbridge, Henry County, Georgia, agreed to pay $5 million to two survivors of child sex trafficking who were 14 years old when the crimes occurred in March 2013. The operator, MASP LLC, settled the federal civil case. The survivor known publicly as Armani S. insisted the settlement be made public so that other survivors and other parents could learn what hotels are required to do, what the warning signs look like, and that the law gives them…

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Jun 22, 2026

Child Sex Trafficking at Richmond Omni Hotel & 901 E Cary St — Attorney911 Investigates Hidden Passageways, Corporate Liability Under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, and Virginia’s Extended Statute of Limitations for Survivors, Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Handles These Cases, We Preserve Architectural Schematics and Employee Logs Before Evidence Is Destroyed, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Survivors of Sexual Abuse — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Richmond Hotel Trafficking Lawyer: What Survivors Named in the Omni Richmond Epstein Files Need to Know Right Now You are reading this because something happened to you at or around the Omni Richmond Hotel on South 12th Street, or at the building at 901 East Cary Street — and the federal investigative files unsealed in 2024 and 2025 now describe what was happening there, in the language of agents and whistleblowers, on a page you did not write. Maybe you were a minor at the time. Maybe you have carried this alone for years, through jobs and apartments and relationships, and the news coverage of the Epstein files cracked something open that you had carefully sealed. Maybe you are a parent or partner of someone who was identified. Whatever door brought you here, you need to know three things before anything else: you may still have time to bring a case, the evidence that proves it can legally disappear on a calendar you do not control, and a federal statute that targets exactly the kind of profiteering the files describe was built around. This page is built for the moment you are in. We are Ralph Manginello and Lupe Peña of Attorney911 — The Manginello Law Firm, PLLC. We are trial lawyers. We have been doing this work since July 18, 2001, more than twenty-four years. We have spent the bulk of that time fighting insurance companies and corporate defendants on catastrophic-injury and human-trafficking cases. We do not represent you…

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Jun 22, 2026

Lansing Motel Sex Trafficking Lawsuit: Attorney911 Holds Negligent Lodging Operators & Corporate Owners Liable Under Federal TVPRA & Illinois Civil Remedies for Child Exploitation—Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Insider Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Trafficking Survivors, We Preserve Motel Surveillance Footage & Guest Logs Before Overwrite, the Firm Has Recovered Millions for Survivors of Severe Abuse—No Fee Unless We Win, Free 24/7 Consultation, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

Lansing, Illinois Sex Trafficking Survivor Lawsuit — Your Civil Rights and the Federal Remedy Against the Motel That Profited If a 15-year-old girl was trafficked out of a Lansing motel, the criminal conviction is one piece. The civil case is a separate door that lets you pursue the motel itself, the trafficker personally, anyone who conspired with him, and the online platforms that posted the advertisements — under a federal statute written precisely for this moment. That statute is the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, and it gives a survivor a private right of action against anyone who knowingly benefited from a venture they knew, or should have known, was trafficking her. A motel that rents a room to a trafficker night after night falls squarely inside that language. Illinois law layers additional rights on top of it, including a statutory civil remedy for trafficking victims and a training mandate that, when ignored, helps prove what the motel should have known. This page is written for one person: a parent, sibling, advocate, or survivor herself who has just learned what happened in a Lansing motel room and is trying to find out what the law will actually do about it. We will walk through the federal civil remedy, the Illinois civil remedy, the negligent-security claim against the motel, who else can be named, the deadline you are racing, the evidence that disappears in days if you wait, and the dollars that are on the table. If you call us at…

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Jun 22, 2026

Motel 6 Sex Trafficking Lawsuit in San Luis Obispo, Modesto, Redding, Turlock & Manteca — Attorney911 Holds G6 Hospitality & Franchisees Liable Under TVPRA for Facilitating Daily Rape, Physical Violence & Permanent Disability to Jane Doe 2 (Cerebral Palsy with Quadriplegia), Ralph Manginello’s 27+ Years of Federal-Court Trial Practice, Lupe Peña the Former Insurance-Defense Attorney Who Knows How the Claims Machine Undervalues Trafficking Cases, We Preserve PMS Logs, Surveillance Footage & Staff Training Records Before They Are Purged, California’s Comparative-Fault Rule Allows Full Recovery Despite Corporate Defenses — Free 24/7 Consultation, No Fee Unless We Win, Hablamos Español, 1-888-ATTY-911

We Are Talking to You Right Now If you are reading this page, you are probably not a lawyer. You are probably the survivor of trafficking, or a mother who found out what happened to her daughter years after the rooms and the cash and the men coming and going, or a grandmother raising a child with quadriplegic cerebral palsy because of injuries the daughter sustained before that child was even born. You are probably reading this on your phone, in the dark, hoping someone will finally tell you the truth about what was done and whether the law gives you any power to do something about it. We are going to tell you the truth. The whole truth. And we are going to tell you in plain English, not the way defense lawyers talk to each other in court filings. A federal civil rights lawsuit has been filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California against the corporate parents and individual franchise operators of a string of Motel 6 properties in San Luis Obispo, Modesto, Redding, Turlock, and Manteca. The lawsuit, brought by a survivor identified only as Jane Doe 1, alleges that the named defendants knew, or should have known, that the rooms in those motels were being used to traffic her — and profited from the trafficking anyway. The complaint also alleges that the violence inflicted on Jane Doe 1 while she was pregnant caused her daughter, Jane Doe 2, to be…

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