Spitzer Violated the Public Trust -- Potentially the Mann Act
The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington has launched far reaching investigations the past year into corrupt lawmakers and White House secrecy. But now the watchdog is chartering new waters: New York Governor Eliot Spitzer's potential violation of the Mann Act.
As everybody in the entire virtual world now knows, Spitzer admitted involvement this afternoon in a prositution ring. CREW immediately fired off a press release that the Governor has likely violated the Mann Act (yes, the Mann Act), a federal law with a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
The nearly 100 year-old act is designed to ban interstate transport of females for immoral pruposes. Spitzer was heard on a wiretap arranging for a prostitute to travel from New York to Washington to meet him in his hotel room.
As a former State Attorney General, didn't Spitzer know he was on the wrong side of the Mann Act? How many times can I write "Mann Act" in one Blog post?
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