FOIA Request: East Coast Human Trafficking Networks (?Deep/Pedogate related)

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Sponsor: Rep. Johnson, Mike [R-LA-4] (Introduced 03/28/2017)
Committees: House - Judiciary | Senate - Judiciary
Committee Reports: H. Rept. 115-137

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H. R. 1761
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
June 5, 2017
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary

AN ACT
To amend title 18, United States Code, to criminalize the knowing consent of the visual depiction, or live transmission, of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct, and for other purposes.

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"House Majority Whip Steve Scalise’s (R-La.) office received pizzas Wednesday from House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer’s (D-Md.) staff after the GOP leader was injured in a shooting at a congressional baseball practice earlier in the day. Staffers for the Democratic whip were seen carrying several boxes of pizza to Scalise's office."

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[–] Dem Rep. Steny Hoyer sends P!ZZA to Scalise's office after shooting. Hoyer was a defense attorney for pedophile Raymond (Rocky) Latham in 1979...Latham was a serial offender. first arrested for a sex offense in Florida in 1942..Later in Columbus, Ohio, he was convicted of 14 counts of sodomy against minors and served time in the Ohio prison system from 1953 to 1962...He also served eight months in jail in Howard County on sex offenses after a 1974 conviction "He was arrested in December 1977 on charges of sex offenses involving boys in Prince George's County. In September 1979, on the advice of Steny Hoyer, his attorney at the time, he agreed to plead guilty to second- and third-degree sex offenses involving two boys." "With a history of molesting and an example of revolving door justice, "Latham had served 16 months of a 16-year sentence at the Maryland Correctional Institute in Jessup when he was paroled on Sept. 17 of last year. Between then and May of this year 1983, when he was arrested, he molested 10 boys in Prince George's and Montgomery counties, police charge." The article continues describing more offenses, his association with NAMBLA..."Latham strongly believes that there is nothing wrong with sex between men and boys."... "He gives the impression "that in every other way, he is a positive citizen," says his former attorney Hoyer, now a U.S. representative. Police call Latham a "pied piper" who befriends boys from poor and broken homes and treats them to pizza and ice skating, new clothes and trips to amusement parks." https://archive.is/nAzGD Hoyer was also part of: FBI's "Innocent Images" undercover task force for Maryland law-enforcement officials, who were hosted by Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, Maryland Democrat, at the Show Place Arena in Upper Marlboro Thursday, August 30, 2000 "The 3-year-old "Innocent Images" task force is one of the FBI's most successful: 653 arrests, 653 indictments or charges filed, 598 convictions (a success rate of 91.6 percent), and 988 searches executed. The program's success indicates not only the agents' ability but also "the explosive growth of trading child p0rn on the Web," Mr. Hoyer said." https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2000/aug/31/20000831-012012-8735r/ https://archive.is/x9FBc

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THE SEX TRADE: TRAFFICKING OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN EUROPE AND THE UNITED STATES

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Clinton Foundation International Sex Trafficking Ring

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In 2013, Clinton's close associate, Terry McAuliffe will be caught by the FBI for receiving as much as $160,000 in contributions from a Chinese businessman who owns the company which controls the Dandong Port Group. Interesting to note for later about McAuliffe is that he also is one of Salomon Melgen's frequent visitors at the resort, Casa de Campo, which is in the Dominican Republic. The links between the Asian nations and the Dominican Republic will be a consistent theme.

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The benefit of owning and controlling a port is that it allows the owners to control the flow of illegal goods through that port. The owner can allow friends to traffic illegal goods and people freely, and stop it for others. This was exactly the concern of the US Southern Command in 2000 when they found out then-President Bill Clinton had given control of the Panama Canal to Chinese businessman, Li Ka-shing and his company. Clinton had lied and said that the canal would be under the control of Panamanians.[7] [Archived Link]

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It is important to note that the Panama Canal is not like a normal canal, which would let vessels move through freely, and is more akin to a port. The canal has several gates and has inspections of ships passing through. It also has fees, usually around $50,000 but which can reach up to $350,000. The inspections themselves can take several days. Thus the benefit of having a friend like Li Ka-shing on the inside, is it could stop intrusive inspections, bypass the costly canal usage fees, and allow the vessels to move through the canal with little to no waiting period (which can be particularly important with live cargo).

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That link between China and the Dominican Republic would come up somewhere else as well. UN official, John Ashe would be accused of receiving bribes, initially from Chinese businessman and alleged sex trafficker, Ng Lap Seng and funneled through Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations from the Dominican Republic, Francis Lorenzo. It is unclear what John Ashe may have known about this ring - apparently he "accidentally" dropped a barbell on his own neck and suffocated the day before he was to testify regarding this bribery scandal. From the Dominican Republic, many of these trafficking victims would likely come to the US.

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Detectives found that organized crime did play a role in the distribution of child pornography

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ThinePreparedAni

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CONGRESS
Republican House Takes Aim at Human Trafficking Again
Maya Rhodan
Updated: Jan 27, 2015 5:53 PM ET

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The REAL Hastert Scandal: Pedophilia, Drug Money and Blackmail
Corbett • 10/15/2015

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But a series of revelations from FBI whistleblowers reveal that this story is just the tip of a very seedy iceberg, one that implicates Hastert, his top aide, other Congress members and government officials in a criminal network involved in sexual intrigue, foreign espionage, blackmail, and drug money.

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These allegations were backed up by a former FBI Counterintelligence Specialist in the Washington Field Office, who told the National Security Whistleblowers Coalition: “…you are looking at covering up massive public corruption and espionage cases; to top that off you have major violations of FISA by the FBI Washington Field Office and HQ targeting these cases. Everyone involved has motive to cover up these reports and prevent investigation and public disclosure.”

According to FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds, revealing the details of this program for the first time in a series of podcasts in the wake of the Hastert revelations, this illegal surveillance program — dubbed COINTELPRO II by the agents who were asked to implement it — dates back to the mid-1990s, when the Clinton White House was being rocked by a series of sex scandals.

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Livingston was replaced as Speaker by Dennis Hastert, a Congressman no stranger to scandal himself. In 2005 Vanity Fair drew on FBI insiders, FEC filings, sworn testimony and other documents to report on some of the information the Bureau dug up on Hastert. This included FBI wiretaps capturing Turkish agents boasting of tens of thousands of dollars in payments they had used to assure Hastert’s flip flop on the US Congress’ Armenian genocide resolution.

Hastert Spokesman: This is all nonsense. It’s not being reported by the mainstream press because there’s no factual evidence. The reporter does not have a transcript of any wiretap conversations that we know of, and even if he did it’s preposterous. The speaker does not have any connections to American Turkish interests.

[SOURCE: Kill The Messenger]

Shortly after leaving the House in 2007, Hastert registered as a foreign agent lobbying on the hill for the Turkish government.

But the dirt on Hastert and his associates went much deeper than this.

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Information on Hastert’s nefarious and illegal sexual activities between 1996 and 2002 is far more explosive than the activities “exposed” in the recent so-called revelations. Hastert’s sexual activities were videotaped and thoroughly recorded not only by two US government agencies, but also by a foreign network — a criminal foreign network — headquartered in Chicago and involved in NATO/CIA Gladio operations.

Between 1996 and 2002, Dennis Hastert engaged in illegal fundraising activities in Illinois. These activities included receiving and laundering foreign sourced cash funds, some of them drug money.

Several other high-level elected officials were also involved in these illegal activities. Representative Dan Burton was a key figure. The mayor of Chicago, the governor of Illinois, and at least three high-level staff members were involved as well.

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Since 1996 the FBI has had tons of information on Hastert which was gathered in Chicago by the FBI’s Chicago Field Office. The incriminating criminal evidence in those files range from bribery, extortion, fraud, money laundering and embezzlement, to sexual crimes against minors and participation in foreign-operated drug operations.

Since 1997 the FBI has had much hard evidence on Hastert gathered by the FBI’s Washington Field Office. The documented deeds range from espionage to foreign bribery.

But that’s not all. The FBI also has had hard data on Hastert’s sexual violations outside the United States. The involved countries include Vietnam, Thailand, Turkey and Morocco, among others. This also included sexual favors as means of foreign bribery. Interestingly, the CIA had been documenting those sexual activities for many years, and not only on Hastert but on many others; elected and appointed.

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As NSA whistleblower Russell Tice told The Corbett Report in 2013, he had first-hand knowledge of this surveillance, which included politicians, judges, military personnel, and even the future President of the United States.

In short, this scandal is too deep, too dark, and covers too many people from both sides of the political aisle for it to ever proceed in public. If it were to be exposed it would uncover a tale of surveillance, scandal, drug money, child prostitution and blackmail that could blow up all over Washington and make Watergate look like a minor footnote in the history of political scandal.

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It’s deep state lobbying via blackmail, done through covert and illegal means. Everyone’s wrong here. So, so wrong.

Also, it says that–since they are listening on everyone (illegally?)–either stay in the shadows and do wrong or don’t, but if you go public and become someone important, you have to have either integrity (no that’s too hard-DC’s full of underutilized money and hookers), or have magical leverage to outweigh what they have on you (blackmail insurance).

This all just makes me sad.

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AN INCONVENIENT PATRIOT

Love of country led Sibel Edmonds to become a translator for the F.B.I. following 9/11. But everything changed when she accused a colleague of covering up alleged illicit activity involving Turkish nationals. Fired after sounding the alarm, she’s now preparing a Supreme Court appeal—and threatening some very powerful people.

BY DAVID ROSE
OCTOBER 1, 2005 12:00 AM

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'IT'S DISTURBING': TBI DIRECTOR SAYS HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS A DEMAND-DRIVEN ISSUE

"It's in all of our neighborhoods. It's people that we go to school with, we go to church with, we work with because it's internet-driven for the most part, and it's a demand-driven issue," TBI Director Mark Gwyn said.

Author:
Madison Wade
Published:
10/24/17

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According to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, human trafficking is the second-fastest growing criminal industry in the state, just behind drug trafficking, and it's happening in every city and county in Tennessee.

"It's in all of our neighborhoods. It's people that we go to school with, we go to church with, we work with because it's internet-driven for the most part, and it's a demand-driven issue," TBI Director Mark Gwyn said.

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"It's disturbing. It's a part of our society that most people don't want to really believe that's out there, but it is and we can't ignore it," he said.

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“All of this operates in the shadows,” he said. “All this operates in secrecy. I’m sure there are guys that say, ‘I don’t go to underage because I know.’ You don’t know.”

The average age of trafficking victims is just 15 years old, according to Shared Hope International research study. The non-profit group works in the prevention of sex trafficking and the restoration of those who have been victimized through sex trafficking.

Jason said he purchased sex more than 25 times and never got caught.

“When I was in the midst of it, I never thought of sex trafficking,” he said. “I was paying to escape for 15 minutes, half an hour, an hour to escape.”

The Shared Hope International analysis also took a close look a who is purchasing girls for sex. They found the buyers are most often men around 40 years old.

“Typical American guy. Baseball, apple pie and mom. That’s me,” Jason agreed.

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According to Shared Hope International, nearly a quarter of buyers hold a position of authority or trust, such as an attorney or law enforcement. Approximately one in five buyers have a job working with children.

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Gaby believes the man who trafficked her—and several other girls—was a college professor.

“He would open his laptop and make me read reviews on me,” she said. “He wants to make sure that his clientele isn’t disappointed.”

Gaby’s buyers revealed personal details about their lives. They were women’s husbands and daughters’ fathers.

The husbands and fathers who purchased Gaby and thousands of girls others like her are the reason so many girls are exploited, manipulated and assaulted.

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