Retired Judge Guilty Of Mann Act: Spitzer Next?
Posted on Friday, 5 of September , 2008 at 11:21 pm
NEW YORK – If former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer is reading the newspapers, he knows the federal government is serious about prosecuting violations of the federal Mann Act.
The 1910 law prohibits “interstate transportation of women for immoral purposes”. In that federal prosecutors investigating a prostitution and money laundering ring say that Spitzer was caught on a wiretap arranging for a prostitute Ashley Alexandra Dupré, aka Kristen, to travel from New York to Washington for a rendezvous at the Mayflower Hotel on the eve of St. Valentine’s Day.
Ronald H. Tills, 73, of Hamburg in Erie County, a retired acting Supreme Court justice and Court of Claims judge, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Buffalo to violating the Mann Act by transporting a prostitute across state lines.
He is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 12. Although the maximum penalty is 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, it’s likely he will receive a term of 21 to 26 months.
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