For all the sordid and developing details of Eliot Spitzer's rendezvous with a high-priced prostitute, go to TPM's
excerpt of the actual prosecutor filings on Temeka Rachelle Lewis, "Kristen" and "Client-9." ...
His chances of staying in office, however, would vanish if prosecutors charged him under the 1910 Mann Act--known at the time as the White-Slave Taffic Act. Passed at the end of the Progressive era during the height of a moral panic over alleged "white slavery"--the Mann Act banned the interstate transport of women for "immoral purposes." It's survived numerous court challenges and modifications by Congress over the years, but it's still on the books. Spitzer arranged for the prostitute's Amtrak ticket from New York to Washington (and her hotel room), so he could be subject to federal felony charges under the present day incarnation of the Mann Act. Indeed, the four defendants charged last week in the sting that swept up Spitzer were charged under the act ...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080310/cm_thenation/15296865