And yet he is only getting a year and a half in jail.
Are we really cleaning house with this WOT? Or is it just a horse and pony show?
Excerpts from this PDF File Link:
http://www.ecpatusa.org/pdf/trafficking_report_final.pdf
International Trafficking of Children to New York City for Sexual Purposes
Trafficking of human beings is not a new phenomenon. Human trafficking, mostly of women and children, is a growing $7 billion global business and reportedly the third most profitable illegal enterprise after the sale of guns and drugs. The U.S. Department of State estimates that at least 700,000 persons around the world fall victim to traffickers every year.5Because of its clandestine nature, documentation of the numbers of victims does not stand up to statistical scrutiny, but enough anecdotal evidence exists to confirm that human trafficking is a major issue of our time. It not only involves illegal criminal activity including fraud and money laundering, but from a human rights perspective, it involves coercion, deception and violence leveled against the victims. Those most at-risk for trafficking are most often vulnerable people such as those in poor countries, people living in war zones, single mothers, young women under age 25, and children, especially orphans and homeless youth
In New Jersey, part of the New York metropolitan area, there is a high density of sex establishments located in Newark, Jersey City, East Brunswick, Red Bank and Rockaway Township. New Jersey reportedly has the highest number of strip clubs of any state, totaling over 200, some of which operate as fronts for prostitution.23According to Walter Zalisko, a Jersey City police supervisor and expert on trafficking and Russian organized crime, over thirty five hundred women and girls are working as sex slaves or as indentured servants in the metropolitan area. Having interviewed as many as 300 victims, Zalisko found that almost three quarters claim they came here to work other jobs, but were forced to become strippers and prostitutes instead.24New York City is also an epicenter for the fraud and organized crime that accompanies human trafficking and is among the top three cities in the country with the greatest amount of visa fraud. In the U.S., Russian organized crime is concentrated in New York City and New Jersey
Multiple criminal investigaitons have begun centering on the way in Kushner, McG's top campaign financier, readily gave millions to assist McGreevey, and other prominent politicians in the region. Kushner gave $1.5 M to the DNC and more money to the Clintons and Torricelli.
In June 2004, Kushner settled separate Federal Elections Commission civil charges accusing him and his businesses’ top executives of giving out more than $500,000 in campaign contributions in the names of various Kushner real-estate partners without their knowledge or consent.
In a related case, Kushner agreed to pay a $230,000 civil penalty to end the investigation by the New Jersey state Division of Criminal Justice into campaign contributions he made beginning in 1996, when he and a family trust he controls assumed majority ownership of Livingston-based Norcrown Bank.
Under a decades-old New Jersey law, bank owners are prohibited from contributing money or anything of value to assist a political candidate or political party for state or local office. State prosecutors concluded Kushner gave $230,000 to various candidates for state and local office and political organizations that support them between June 18, 1996, and Jan. 20, 2004, the date the settlement was reached.
The state settlement pertains only to those Kushner contributions that violated the bank-ownership ban; it did not have any bearing on contributions that could have run afoul of state partnership-attribution rules. "Nothing in this agreement releases Charles Kushner from any liability arising under any other New Jersey statute," the settlement reads.
In June 2004, Kushner settled separate Federal Elections Commission civil charges accusing him and his top executives of giving out more than $500,000 in campaign contributions in the names of various Kushner real-estate partners without their knowledge or consent. Kushner said he was unaware of the state law barring his giving and added that he made his campaign contributions based on the advice of his lawyers.
Duh. Yeah sure, Charlie.