#mann act

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Black boxer Jack Johnson was Arrested for Violating the Mann Act for “transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes” Due to His Relationship With White Woman Lucille Cameron, Who Was Allegedly a Prostitute. October 18, 1912.

Image: Jack Johnson in 1915. (Public Domain) On this day in history, October 18, 1912, Black boxer Jack Johnson was arrested for violating the Mann Act for “transporting women across state lines for immoral purposes” due to his relationship with white woman Lucille Cameron, who was allegedly a prostitute. He was later convicted by an all-white jury and sentenced to a year in prison for his…

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#1910s #Boxing #History Daily #Jack Johnson #Mann Act

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Prosecutors will not recommend charging GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz in the Justice Department's investigation into if the Florida congressman violated federal sex-trafficking laws, according to The Washington Post.

Citing anonymous sources, The Post reported that prosecutors were concerned with the credibility of two key witnesses and think they'd be unlikely to secure a conviction if they indicted Gaetz. Justice Department officials typically take the advice of career prosecutors but haven't made a final decision on the matter yet, the report said.

The Justice Department has been investigating Gaetz since the summer of 2020.

According to NBC News, prosecutors were examining if the congressman committed three separate crimes: if he sex-trafficked a 17-year-old; if he violated the Mann Act, which prohibits the transportation of "any woman or girl for the purpose of prostitution or debauchery, or for any other immoral purpose" across state lines; and if he obstructed justice.

The existence of the investigation first became public last year, when The New York Times reported that investigators were examining if Gaetz had a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old in 2019 and paid for her to travel with him.

One person familiar with the conversations told The Times that Gaetz told some women to say that he paid for dinners and hotel rooms as part of their dates if anyone asked about the nature of their relationships.

The FBI executed a search warrant in late 2020 and seized Gaetz's cell phone, as well as a phone belonging to his former girlfriend, who testified before a federal grand jury earlier this year.

Gaetz has denied wrongdoing and said last year that the allegations were part of an "organized criminal extortion" scheme against him. Last month, the Florida businessman Stephen Alford was sentenced to five years in prison after pleading guilty to attempting to extort Gaetz and his father for $25 million.

"Those who told lies about Congressman Matt Gaetz are going to prison, and Congressman Matt Gaetz is going back to Congress to continue fighting for America," a spokesperson for Gaetz's office told Insider.

#us politics #news #gaetzgate #rep. matt gaetz #florida #business insider #child sex trafficking #sex trafficking #2022 midterms #2022 elections #2022 #fbi #department of justice #Stephen Alford #the new york times #nbc news #the washington post #mann act #obstruction of justice

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Cincinnati’s White-Slavery Crusader Couldn’t Resist Forbidden Sweets

When Leonard A. Watson, officer of the court, was discovered naked in the bed of a known prostitute, he uttered a most unusual statement.

Watson was the Secretary – essentially the executive director – of Cincinnati’s Vigilance Society. The society was devoted to ending white slavery, the seduction of young women into prostitution. According to a report Watson compiled for national distribution, prostitution in Cincinnati was worse than anywhere in the United States.

“When Detective Sergeant Bowler of Chicago was in Cincinnati, early in the month of February, 1911, and walking through the outskirts of the ‘red light’ district with me, between eight and nine o 'clock one evening, he was aghast at what he saw, and stated that never at any time, would such things have been tolerated in Chicago, as were transpiring openly in Cincinnati. This was but another way of saying, what we, who have been waging a war against the ‘white slave’ traffic and its kindred vices, have realized for a long time, namely, that Cincinnati is perhaps the most depraved city, from the view point of public immorality, in the country.”

Cincinnati’s red-light district, from around 1880 to 1918, occupied a large swath of the West End, from Plum Street westward to Mound Street between Fifth Street and Seventh Street. On George Street, which ran between Sixth and Seventh, there were 45 brothels between Plum and Mound. Just one block of Longworth Street, which ran between Fifth and Sixth, offered 18 “bagnios.”

As the designated agent of the Vigilance Society, L.A. Watson was deputized as an officer of the Juvenile Court and given free rein to investigate wayward women in Cincinnati’s brothels, particularly to search for underage girls brought to Cincinnati across state lines in violation of the new 1910 anti-white slavery law known as the Mann Act. In fact, Watson proudly included in his national report the details of his most successful case, arresting a prostitute and her madam, both of whom were convicted of Mann Act violations.

“Emma Harris, who for twenty-three years has kept one of the largest and most lavishly equipped houses in the city, which she owns, was sentenced to four years at hard labor, in the federal penitentiary, at Leavenworth, together with the costs of prosecution.

“Bessie Green, twenty-six years old, who for several years had been an inmate of the Harris house, and who acted as the emissary of Emma Harris in bringing two girls from Charleston, W. Va., was sentenced to one year at hard labor in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, together with the costs of prosecution.”

So, imagine the surprise of Frank Kuhn, juvenile court probation officer, when he discovered Watson in flagrante delicto with, of all people, Bessie Green, in the brothel owned by the notorious Emma Harris. According to the Cincinnati Enquirer [28 December 1911], when Officer Kuhn, accompanied by Cincinnati Police Sergeant John F. Ringer, pulled the blankets off Watson’s unclothed form, the Vigilance Society Secretary said:

“The jig is up, Kuhn. But don’t say anything for God’s sake. I can do you a great deal of good. I’m done and will quit. Everyone is liable to fall sometime. Don’t be too hard on me.”

To Sergeant Ringer, assigned to patrol the red-light district, Watson said something even more peculiar, suggesting that his behavior was not a one-time event:

“You’ve been trying to get me long enough.”

Publicly, Watson claimed he was framed. The nefarious white-slave ring, he asserted, had drugged him and led him into Bessie Green’s bed. He told the Cincinnati Post [28 December 1911]:

“I merely have been a fool. To think of a man of the world and sophisticated, allowing myself to be the victim of a conspiracy like this.”

There were forces at work, Watson told reporters, that implicated powerful people in Cincinnati and would shock the populace once the facts came out.

He may have been correct. Watson arrived in Cincinnati a few years before his embarrassing downfall and immediately accused the Cincinnati Police Department of lax enforcement of the vice laws, which was certainly the case. In January of 1911, Watson presented a list of people who owned property in the red-light district to a meeting of ministers. Allegedly, some of the most prominent names in Cincinnati society appeared on that list. Not surprisingly, none of the city’s newspapers would print the roll of shame.

On the other hand, Watson had a habit over several months of bouncing checks all over the red-light district. The night before he was exposed, witnesses saw Watson and a companion enter the Diamond Saloon, directly across the street from Emma Harris’ brothel. The proprietor there, J.L. Franks, told police that Watson asked to see the saloon’s girls. When Frank informed him that there were no women on the premises, Watson and his companion walked over to the Harris place.

The only outcome from any investigation were two lawsuits. Watson sued the Vigilance Society to recover back pay and the Vigilance Society sued Watson claiming he owed them money. A few members of the Vigilance Society believed Watson’s conspiracy theory and backed him in organizing a new anti-white slavery organization, but nothing came of it. The original Vigilance Society continued its work but agreed that sending male agents into the red-light district might not be the optimum approach. They advertised to recruit women agents.

Neither of the lawsuits went anywhere, both Watson and the Vigilance Society agreeing that discretion was called for as they settled privately. Emma Harris and Bessie Green both went to prison in 1913 after their appeals failed.

One footnote to Leonard A. Watson’s legacy in Cincinnati might be mentioned. Watson was among the few men who openly supported women’s suffrage. In August 1911, Watson announced a meeting to organize a Men for Woman Suffrage organization to support women’s right to vote. No one showed up.

#leonard a. watson #vigilance society #cincinnati prostitution #emma harris #bessie green #mann act

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#Aaron Lopez #America #American History #Americans #Anthony Johnson #Bellevue Ave #Black History #Clay Perry #Downton Abbey #Folk Lore #Gilded Age #Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #Israel Bissell #jewish #legends #MANN ACT #Mansions #new england #Newport #Newport Mansions #Passport Bros #Patriachy #Paul Revere #Rhode Island #Servant's Life Tours #Slave Trade #slavery #The Breakers #Vanderbilt #WHITE SLAVE ACT

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WHEN YOU KNOW YOU KNOW THE VOICE BUT CAN'T FUCKING FIGURE IT OUT...

Harry Lloyd

#bad batch #the bad batch #bad batch spoilers #the bad batch spoilers #captain mann #voice acting

[barbituratecongestion]

Macbeth, William Shakespeare / Henry IV , William Shakespeare Collateral (2004) dir. Michael Mann

On the homophone pair ‘deer’ and ‘dear’ in Shakespeare’s works, the line in Macbeth denotes those that were dear to someone. Also seen in Henry IV.

In Collateral the function the usage of homophones assumes is adapted when Max makes out the bloodied windshield from the hit to be the blood of a deer; the original meaning being extracted just before with Vincent – in a similar vein – noting about his quarry, “they’re somebody’s friends…”

In addition, prior to the cops pulling them over, Vincent muses: “Probably married. Maybe that one's got kids. Probably his wife's pregnant…” assessing the potential familial relations of the (“deer”) persons he threatens will be added to the quarry of murdered “deer” ones filling the trunk space.

#because death hath not struck so fat a deer to-day though many dearer in this bloody fray. #there's also something to be said of him filling Max’ head with faceless loved ones humanising them as a tactic to urge him #(continued) to act accordingly seemingly remaining indifferent to the role he plays #collateral 2004 #michael mann #mindhunter (1986) had me hooked on micheal mann movies i really lost it over that one and now i'm here #i’ve gone nuts ignore this take I’m not a humanitarian #there are many more parallels to be drawn and literary comparisons that can be made #yes that one line about lady macbeth sparked this and that's because intertextuality is fun #that's why webweaving (?) is so prevalent on this site #itu bad takes

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Oh wow so we skip right to the trial without finding out what's in the tower... I'm sure whatever's in there will definitely not be a game changing revelation that will cause Professor Layton to work against Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney in this wonderful game Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney.

#to clarify i uh #may have seen in the trailers that Layton briefly acts as prosecutor #but I have no idea if that's permanent or even in the finished product of the game #i just saw half a trailer with no audio mann #plvspw liveblog #plvspw spoilers #plvsaa spoilers

[listenupcupcakes]

You and the enemy soldier are pretty alike, it's hilarious.

I AM NOTHING LIKE THAT SPINLESS BLU SON OF A BITCH!

#mod trying to figure out if 'son of a bitch' is out of character for solly to say #im pretty sue he says it in one of his voice lines #and i use bastard a lot #solly speaks #solly answers #anon ask #anonymous #they are so similar #just small differences #they act a little different but they're very same #mod has put thought into this #also they're techinically the same oersin #i guess #im still trying to figure out if i want them to have the same pre-mann backstory or not

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I did this sketch in 5 minutes enjoy

#you can keep them #he’s already tired #all of them are idiots #but stellan likes to act like he isn’t #Elzar just loves teasing him #Avar is just there for the fun #maybe she was lured with food who knows #fact is #Stellan lost a bet #That’s the reason behind the shirts #he would never willingly wear that #at least he got to chose his own design #also yes i know this sketch is horrible #it’s in the middle of the Night okay #avar kriss #elzar mann #stellan gios #the high republic

[horrorlesbion]

new icon to embrace both my status as a Riverdale Blog and my obsession with and many opinions on nabokovs lolita which i will inevitably subject people to <3

#captains log #if the show missteps the slightest in their use of the glasses #rest assured i will develop rabies on the spot #also in my heart this icon design is a reference #to the mann act novel cover #which is one of the very few covers in existence that are actually good

[themannfamily]

Hate Speech.

#ooc #gray mann #tf2 #i have no mouth and i must scream #am's voice is incredibly suitable for gray #voice acting of the comic by the beard on youtube #edit by me

[schreckensbleiches-nervenbuendel]

Ich hasse es, wenn die Leute von Internet- oder Stromanbietern bei mir klingeln. Für viele Leute ist es kein großes Ding, die Tür zu öffnen und ein normales Gespräch mit den Leuten zu führen.

Aber ich weiß nie, was die wollen. Plötzlich weiß ich nicht mehr, bei welchem Strom- oder Internetanbieter ich angemeldet bin oder seit wann ich in dieser Wohnung lebe.

Und die reden immer so schnell und im Flur hallt es so sehr, dass ich literally kein Wort verstehe. Das führt dann immer zu richtig unangenehmen Situationen.

Zum Glück kam mein Freund in dem Moment nach Hause. Er hat sich mit dem Typen in die Küche gesetzt und ich glaube, dass die sich kennen, was die Sache 1000x schlimmer macht.

Ich war nämlich vorhin so überfordert, dass ich an der Tür dissoziiert und dann stumm geworden bin. Ich konnte absolut nicht mehr reden - hab meine Lippen kaum auseinander gekriegt.

Kann dieser mentale Scheiß nicht endlich aufhören? Bitte, ich dreh durch.

#venting #because I can't deal with shit like that #I literally can't #Pls just let me have one good day without my illnesses acting up #I wanna be a productive member of society #und es tut mir so leid dass ich dem Mann an der Tür ein seltsames Gefühl gegeben und ihn in eine Situation gebracht hab #die für ihn unangenehm und auch sehr peinlich ist

[mann-walter]

Today we've reached the 10th episode of Andor. I think it is finally fair for me to state some of my more elaborate opinions.

As far as I can see, and I bet you all agree, it has been a great show. It might be a little slow at times for those who are used to action-packed movies/TV shows, but outside of that, nothing negative is to be said about it. The dialogues, the acting, the sets (God, how much I love the sets), the story itself, the characters... I'll be honest, there's no one in the entirety of this show that is not interesting.

But what I'm going to talk about today is not the music, or the costume design, or Andy Serkis' incredible acting and character development. But the message I take from it.

There is this old Javanese saying:

Jer Basuki Mawa Beya

"Happiness always comes with a cost".

I think that resonates very well with many characters. From Mon to Luthen to Cassian to even the prisoners. Many had to fought their fears to gain freedom and happiness. Some might have to leave home and be separated from their loved ones.

Some might have to work with people or methods they would otherwise despise. Our best example of this is Luthen. He explained that he sacrificed many things, not only of himself, but of others too.

Many, like Andor himself on a later day, had to die without seeing the fall of the Empire. Without seeing the completion of their fight. Many might not be even remembered.

This show, besides showing that the rebellion was made up by a billion types of beings, with both noble and less noble intentions and way of executions, showed that a rebellion is not cheap. Not only financially.

To rebel is to make sacrifices, huge sacrifices. Because indeed freedom and happiness always come with a cost.

#Fighting for independence is not always as heroic as it seems #There will always be a thousand interesting layers within such stories #Of infighting #Of ignoble acts #Of shaking hands with the Devil #Of the untold price #Of sometimes never seeing the sunrise you so tirelessly fight for #andor #star wars #Mann Walter

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[Image description:A black and white photo of Special Agent Lenore Houston. She wears her hair pulled back, pearls, and a dark coat. ]

This is Special Agent Lenore Houston, one of only three female Bureau of Investigation agents hired before 1972. Her history is shrouded in mystery and in the process of writing "The Case of the Penumbral Gate" (our next season which we’re crowdfunding for right now and ends 11/23/22). We hope to uncover more of her real history and imbue our fictional character, Special Agent Lake, with authentic experiences pulled from Houston's life.

As Sarah Rhea Werner, who plays her on the show pointed out, in the above photo Special Agent Houston "just looks f---in' PISSED."

When J. Edgar Hoover came to power, he asked for the resignation of the two existing female agents, Davidson and Duckstein. Houston has the strange distinction of being the only female agent hired during Hoover's nearly 50 years of tyranny as Director of the FBI.

[ Image description: Special Agent Lenore Houston's form and photo certifying her as an agent. a CANCELLED stamp is across it. ]

Side note: Duckstein, who we can't find any photos of, has her own wild story and Hoover targeted her for testifying against the Bureau's illegal investigative techniques. We're looking into her too. Below is an excerpt from page 547 of the Investigation of the Former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, in which Duckstein is intensely charming in her enthusiasm to point out some creepy perps in this scandal.

[Image description: An excerpt from page 547 of the Investigation of the Former Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty, transcripts of Duckstein where she says it would give her great pleasure to identify some shady characters. ]

Hoover, famously misogynistic (see below letter from 1971), was against Houston becoming an agent, but after pressure from the Pennsylvania Governor & a Congressman on her behalf, he conceded & she was an active agent from 1924 to 1928. Who was she and how did she have such powerful allies? No one knows.

[Image description: A famous letter from Director Hoover in 1971 in which he insists that women are unfit to be FBI agents. ]

Houston was born in a town that no longer exists (Collamer, PA), went to Swarthmore College, belonged to Pi Beta Phi - the first female secret society in the US, and was unmarried. Between graduating college and becoming a Special Agent at 45 there's 20 years unaccounted for.

[Image description: An image from @usnatarchives​ of Lenore Huston in a studio photograph from the bust up, wearing a wide-brimmed hat. ]

In her last year as an agent, Hoover personally wrote several memos retroactively placing her on leave (very unusual) until asking her resignation. Two years later she was institutionalized, reportedly hallucinating and threatening to shoot Hoover if she was ever released.

[Image description: Hoover's final letter retroactively placing Houston on leave without pay and asking her resignation.]

Houston died in 1933, and her strange final years suggest a sinister story. She moved from the Philadelphia office to the Washington D.C. office in 1927 and an outstanding career turns sour, the more Hoover directly gets involved. During a time where it was very easy to call a woman hysterical and have her institutionalized (especially a gender-nonconforming unmarried woman of almost 50) it's easy to read that Hoover silenced her. It's in his playbook.

[Image description: An illustration by Jarrod Pope of Special Agent Lenora Lake from The Call of Cthulhu Mystery Program, rendered in the style of a sepia toned photograph. Lake looks disheveled, wearing a dress and hat, holding a gun.]

Agent Lake's story is going to be very different from Houston's - very much her own, but very informed by Houston's life, times, work environment, and perhaps even the history of her fellow female agents. Though all of this informed the character that Sarah played in our initial roleplaying session, this history isn't at the center of "The Case of the Penumbral Gate". We're hoping that we'll be able to meet our stretch goal to do a standalone Agent Lake special so we can dive deep into all of this and tell the story of how untangling a conspiracy in Washington D.C. puts Agent Lake in Director Hoover’s crosshairs. There’s something weird going on and no one is listening. Naturally, this world-weary non-conformist has to take matters into her own hands.

If you want to hear this story and help us do research that as far as we know no one else has done into the lives of these Agents, please spread the word far and wide. Let's see if we can get this campaign funded and reach these stretch goals!  

#special agent lenore houston #lenore houston #sarah rhea werner #historical fiction #audio drama #crowdfunding #bureau of investigation #fb #federal bureau of investigation #j. edgar hoover #women of history #the mann act #lovecraft #hp lovecraft #call of cthulhu #deviant women #fbi agent #actual play #rpg audio drama #the call of cthulhu mystery program

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Kevin Csolak is killing it as teenage Pope.

#can’t say the same for Darren Mann as teenage Baz #i can’t tell if it’s bad acting #or not studying Scott speedmans mannerisms as baz #or bad writing #probably all #kevin csolak #shawn hatosy #pope Cody #Andrew Cody #animal kingdom season 6 #animal kingdom tnt #animal kingdom

[asexualjedi]

I will say the Elvis movie was pretty good tho too long. Like it almost had me rooting for Elvis even tho I fucking hate him. Got really mad about how the time tried to couch and gloss over the nastiness of his relationship with Priscilla tho.

#‘feel in love with army guys teenage daughter’ they say oh you mean the 14 year old child and the when I’m fifty and your 40 much later in #the movie like #growing up my friends mom was obsessed with Elvis they would have a party every year on his birthday and the whole neighborhood would come #over and watch his movies listen to his music eat blue candy canes and peanut butter and banana sandwiches #the house was covered in merch and stuff #blue party lights and junk #and so that’s all I really knew about him and so later in high school I was like I’ll Google him try to figure out something about this guy #my friends mom loves so muc #and filled with rage and disgust reading about his relationship like #she was a child!! her parents should have protected her not just try to force marriage or less take him to court for the Mann act no take #him to court #around the time I found out like I knew my grandma hid her age bc there was an age difference between her in my grandpa but I didn’t I didnt #realize how bad or the context til I did our family tree for my dad in high school and found out that he was like 29 and she was like a #teenager #everyone is always like it was a different time no it wasn’t!! or she wouldn’t have always hidden her age!! #idk idk #she really loved him but it’s still bad that happened idk #sorry got off topic