From 2003 until 2013, Hank Asher was on the board of directors of the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). He also provided databases to track missing children, sex offenders, and suspects and victims of sex trafficking. So not only did he have influence over a major US organization devoted to fighting sex trafficking, he controlled the databases used to track it.

According to Wikipedia, Asher was also a cocaine smuggler. In 1982, he flew cocaine out of Colombia and Belize, during the exact same time that the CIA was doing it as part of Iran-Contra. Was Asher a CIA asset? That would explain why he got off with no charges and got to join the DEA.

If Asher was indeed a CIA asset, giving him such control over the NCMEC and these databses was a catastrophic mistake considering the CIA's involvement in child trafficking. He could have helped corrupt NCMEC from the inside, and maybe even backdoored these databases to help out the traffickers.