Reply #4: I challenge them to "get" him on the Mann Act. They didn't get Charlie Chaplin, and

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those were more innocent times, and his machinations were more "hands on."

Chaplin claimed they had gone their separate ways more than a year before. Joan insisted otherwise. She related a tantalizing incident in which she had forced her way into Chaplin's posh house, held a gun on him, and so aroused both of them that they had promptly gone to bed together. This was around Christmas, 1942, an inauspicious date. Even more damaging: Joan said that in October, 1942, she had gone to New York City at Chaplin's expense, had been followed by him, and had had relations with him in his hotel room. This meant that Chaplin could be prosecuted under the Mann Act, a federal law which made it a serious crime (up to 25 years in prison and a fine of $25,000) to transport a female across a state line for immoral purposes. Originally aimed at organized prostitution ("white slavery"), the Mann Act was also used as a sort of "interstate intercourse act," a way of prosecuting people the authorities wanted to "get" for some other, not necessarily criminal, reason.


http://www.trivia-library.com/b/hollywood-celebrity-scandals-charlie-chaplin-and-joan-barry-affair-part-1.htm

That said, ole Elliot has been dipping his wick in the high end hooker pool for at least eight times. They apparently "have" that on him.

Elliot could always (implausibly) claim that his original intent wasn't "sex," but "role playing"--a la Vitter. Which isn't an "immoral purpose." It's kinky, but legal.

About the only way he could "stay and fight" is to switch the issue from hookers to WIRETAPPING. Bring up the "They are listening to YOU, TOO....they are making copies of EVERYTHING you say on the internet, too--your emails, your forum conversations..."THEY" indeed ARE out to get you!!!!"

I think Elliot was a fool. Stupid, a jerk, perhaps a bit hubris laden. Definitely a "cad." He certainly isn't holding up the reputation of Harvard Law, that's for sure--between him and ALBERTO GONZALES, that school turns out more than their fair share of fucked up idiots, for all that money. You're probably better off at Unknown Semi-Public Poor Folks Community Law School--cheaper, and odds are good your classmates won't end up on the front page of the NYT.

I'd imagine he's using his law education to find a way to fend off any more charges, and he won't resign until he cuts a deal that keeps him out of the pokey. Who knows, he could end up changing US law, if this prosecution comes to be seen as a "persecution."