NY Attorney General Subpoenas Facebook

September 24, 2007 By MICHAEL GORMLEY, Associated Press Writer

(AP) -- The New York Attorney General has subpoenaed Facebook after the company did not respond to "many" complaints by investigators who were solicited for sex while posing as teenagers on the social-networking site.

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