Mann Act

• Also try: Spitzer Prostitution Ring

Mann Act Background and History

• Florida Atlantic University: Mann Act Complete Text
• PBS.org: Unforgivable Blackness: The Mann Act
• Wikipedia: Mann Act | James Robert Mann (Illinois)
• Google Book Search: Crossing Over the Line: Legislating Morality and the Mann Act by David Langum

Mann Act News and Blogs

• Topix.net: Mann Act
• Google News: Mann Act
• WSJ.com: Law Blog: A Look at the Mann Act (March 10, 2008)
• The Nation: The Spitzer Scandal (March 10, 2008)
  • The Mann Act remains on the books despite several challenges in court over the years. Because Spitzer paid for a train ticket from New York to Washington for an alleged prostitute, his actions could be a violation of the act, which bans trafficking women across state lines for the purposes of prostitution.
• WashingtonPost.com: Did Spitzer's New York Snobbery Doom Him? (March 10, 2008)
• TheAtlantic.com: Marc Ambinder: Client 9's Options (March 10, 2008)
• Google Blog Search: Mann Act

• CNN.com: Spitzer to step down by Monday (March 12, 2008)
  • Gov. Eliot Spitzer said Wednesday that he will step down from the state's top office and promised to "atone for my private failings" with family members.
• Agence France-Presse: Spitzer's call girl once worked for ring he busted (March 14, 2008)
  • The call girl whose tryst with disgraced New York Governor Eliot Spitzer brought about his downfall once worked for an escort service [that Spitzer] busted, its former owner said.
• The Man Behind the Spitzer Prosecution: Law Blog (Wall Street Journal) (March 14, 2008)
• The New York Times: Woman at the Center of Governor’s Downfall (March 12, 2008)
  • "She left a broken home on the Jersey Shore at 17 and came to New York City to work the nightclubs as a rhythm and blues singer. Now, at 22, she is the unwitting, and as yet unseen, star of the seamy drama that is the downfall of Gov. Eliot Spitzer of New York."
• ABC News: Spitzer Escort: Governor Was a Nice Guy, Good Tipper (March 11, 2008)
  • A 22-year-old escort found on another call-girl Web site claimed to ABC News in a phone interview that Gov. Eliot Spitzer had been one of her customers two years ago. . ."He didn't do anything that wasn't clean," she said...
• Paul Kiel (TPMMuckraker): How The "Emperor's Club" Probe Started (March 11, 2008)
• The New York Times: Spitzer Is Linked to Prostitution Ring (March 10, 2008)
• Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine): The Spitzer Sex Sting: A Few More Questions (March 10, 2008)
• The Smoking Gun: Spitzer Linked To Hooker Probe (March 10, 2008)

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