Willful interference with a person's right to travel was the statute relied upon by the Department of Justice, for example, in the 1994 prosecution of the killers of Yankel Rosenbaum, a Hasidic scholar stabbed in a religiously-motivated attack.
Travelled 900 statute miles.
The statutes most often used to prosecute public corruption are the Hobbs Act, Travel Act, RICO, the program bribery statute, and mail and wire fraud statutes.
The officials said that once they learned that such a prominent figure was involved in soliciting prostitutes, and had seemed to be arranging sex in violation of the statute that prohibits travel across state lines to engage in sex, they wanted to follow the evidence.
And if the host should misinterpret the law or be lax in applying it, a slew of other federal statutes, including the Travel Act, are still on the books, according to legal eagles.
The charges include not only violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act but also the Travel Act and the money laundering statute.
In 1971, Stern wrote that the Hobbs Act was "one of the major statutes under which the federal government can combat local political corruption where the state is either unable or unwilling to do so," citing the Travel Act as the "other major statute".
A 2008 federal anti-trafficking statute allows child migrants travelling without parents or legal guardians to make their case before an immigration judge, rather than face immediate deportation.
Senior administration officials clarified in a conference call this morning that the new regulations "are not meant to facilitate tourist travel to Cuba, as tourist travel remains prohibited by statute". In other words, headlines that have run rampant in recent weeks telling Americans that they can now travel to Cuba are overstated, or, at the very least, misleading.
