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Dan Herbeck of the Buffalo News reported today that a former Erie County Sheriff’s deputy has been charged with conspiring to violate the Mann Act after allegedly arranging for the transportation of about a dozen prostitutes to a national meeting of the Royal Order of Jesters in Canada.
He wrote:
“Michael Lesinski, who retired from police work in November 2008, is the latest person charged in a government probe into human-trafficking activities involving the Royal Order of Jesters. Lesinski made arrangements for a limousine to transport at least a dozen prostitutes from Buffalo Niagara International Airport in Cheektowaga to a hotel in Niagara Falls, Ont., in April 2005, according to charges filed by the U.S. attorney's office.”
Coverage from WSYR TV Syracuse can be found here.
WGRZ Channel 2 TV reports:
“Michael Lesinski is accused of arranging for limousines to carry at least a dozen prostitutes from the Buffalo Niagara Airport to a hotel in Niagara Falls, Ontario where a Jesters' convention was taking place in April of 2005. Lesinski's attorney Rodney Personius says he was somewhat surprised that the Federal Government went through with the criminal complaint given the amount of time that has passed.”
The judge overseeing this case gave both parties until the end of July to come up with an agreement before moving forward to indict Lesinski and taking the case to trial.
The full text of the "Whte Slave Traffic Act" or the Mann Act can be read here. It was approved by the 61st Congress on June 25, 1910 to prohibit the transportation of women and girls for immoral and other purposes.
This latest news is the result of a two-year long federal investigation into the Jesters for prostitution, sex trafficking and child sex tourism after three Jesters pleaded guilty to violating or conspiring to violate the Mann Act for taking an illegal alien prostitute from Buffalo to a Jester weekend party in Kentucky. Former NY State Supreme Court Judge Ronald Tills admitted in his plea agreement to working with national Jester officers to make arrangements to transport the prostitutes from Buffalo to Ontario for a national Jester meeting.
Herbeck also reported today that an FBI agent wrote "Tills delegated that duty to Michael Lesinski, a member of the [Jesters] and then an active deputy sheriff with the Erie County Sheriff's Department."
Tills was sentenced in August, 2009 to a year and a half in federal prison for either transporting or arranging for the transportation of prostitutes to Jester meetings in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Florida, New York and Canada. He’s currently incarcerated at federal facilities in Lexington, Kentucky.
Tills and two other Jesters were caught in March, 2008 by the FBI in a human trafficking sting that targeted four massage parlors that were fronts for the prostitution of illegal alien Asian women.
As a result, Tills and retired police captain John Trowbridge pleaded guilty to violating the Mann Act. Tills' law clerk, Michael Stebick, admitted to driving the motor home that transported an illegal alien prostitute from Buffalo, NY to a Jester meeting in Kentucky, and pleaded guilty to what Lesinski has been charged with, conspiring to violate the Mann Act.
Members of the Royal Order of Jesters are secretly invited Shriners, best known for their red fezzes and operating a network of 21 hospitals that provide free medical care to burned and crippled children. One must first be Master Mason before joining groups like the Scottish Rite, the Knights Templar and the Shriners.
More information about the Royal Order of Jesters's can be found here.
Next: A case study of how the Royal Order of Jesters organize thier weekend parties using their professional positions.
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