Posted on 03/15/2008 6:52:10 AM PDT by AmericanDave
If only Eliott Spitzer lived in Nevada, there would be no crime!
It seems Spitzers only crime is living in New York. His wife would still be ticked off, but on the whole; things would be much better for him.
Maybe we should all move to Nevada, is the divorce rate lower?
Let’s see whose money he was using to pay “Kristen”. He’s not out of the woods yet.
Umm . . . at least on of the acts occurred in D.C.
Sending money across state lines and taking women across state lines for the purposes of prostitution is illegal “everywhere”.(Mann Act) There is some concern also that he was using ‘campaign’ money or state money for his high priced ‘trysts’. A lot to be rooted out on this sleazeball yet.
Hardly. It depends on where in Nevada that buffoon Spitzer would have hooked up with his whore and if he transported her across state lines. Prostitution isn't legal in all counties in Nevada and it remains to be seen if that puke was using his own money. Thus, your assertion is full of holes.
Oh, I know he is guilty of other crimes, but it all is because prostitution is illegal. So he tried to hide the payments, causing another crime to be committed.
The Mann act charge is BS, because it is to stop kidnapping; paying money for someones ticket is in no way using force.
If your not getting it at home, your gonna roam.......
If I did what Spitzer did,my wife would be a little more than “ticked off”.Like in multiple GSW.
Sending someone money for a train ticket is not forcing someone across state lines!
The article is a joke, but a comment on what is legal where...
‘my wife would be a little more than “ticked off”’
I was choosing my words carefully, LOL.
Spitzer did a LOT of things wrong.....
I’m not defending his actions....
I’m commenting that he could have skipped the whole mess in Nevada..... LOL
Yes where did the money come from.
Who paid for the state security detail that followed him.
Who paid for his travel.
His location wouldn’t have saved him from his arrogance.
and that brings up the whole point that it is time to legalize prostitution. To make a career out of chasing down street girls and busting them is a waste of taxpayor money!
There would be much less crime , as it has been shown in Nevada. There seems to be no total collapse of social structure in that state.
spitzer should have gone after the real bad guys and not made his career out of the most vulnerable.
What a total joke, sad and expensive, but what a joke.
Is only transporting women across state lines, for immoral purposes, illegal? If so, the law should be struck down on the grounds that it is discriminatory. For example, Elliot went across state lines for immoral purposes, too.
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You are wrong. The Mannn Act specifically provides inclusion of any person who buys or provides a ticket to any girl or woman to cross state, or territorial or international borders for an illegal or immoral act for which she may be paid. Spitzer is in clear violation of this.
Do not be confused by references to the Mann Act as the White Slavery Act, that was just hyperbole used in the press of the day.
btw...Chuck Berry spent a few years in prison in the fifties for violation of the Mann Act because he took an Apache girl on his bus from NM to Nevada where she was arrested for soliciting.
The fact that Spitzer did not commit his transgressions in his home state of New York means that if he lived in Nevada with its legalized prostitution, it would not absolve him of culpability on the Federal level since his crime involves crossing state lines (i.e. the Mann Act).
“IF SPITZER LIVED IN NEVADA...”
And if silda had testicles, she’d be Sidney.
He probably wouldn’t have needed to launder the money if it were legal. Maybe it would have even been impossible, because laundering by definition necessarily includes some criminal act attempting to be concealed. (On the other hand, if he embezzled public money for his trysts, to pay for a legal prostitute, that wouldn’t be laundering but it would still be embezzling.)
What’s wrong with you? You have no principles? You have no standards? You have no values?
Besides what he’s done to his family (and obviously no one cares about that), he potentially committed numerous other crimes.
(1) Soliciting prostitution across state lines, transporting the girls across state lines. (2) Structuring his financial transactions to avoid financial institution reporting requirements. (3) If his activities go back to when he was attorney general, as they appear they might, did he provide “protection” to this one prostitution agency, while pursuing prosecutions of others that he was no doing business with - and did he accept money from this one, or services “inkind” for not prosecuting them.
And I can think of many more.
Oh really?
Chuck Berry, the rock and roll singer, went to prison for violating the Mann Act and the sex was purely consensual. There was no money or kidnapping involved, so it appears that you are quite wrong.
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