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A human trafficking lawsuit identified as one of the first of its kind — filed by a victim against a hotel owner or operator — recently settled out of court, NPR reports...

The lawsuit filed in Massachusetts involves a woman who accused The Shangri-La Hotel in Seekonk, Massachusetts, its operator and its on-site manager of ignoring clear signs she was in distress.

The case, identified by NPR as one of the first filed against a hotel operator under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2003, could serve as a bellwether for dozens of other cases filed across the U.S. against small and major hotel brands for allegedly allowing or failing to stop human trafficking on their premises. ..

“These are not cases where maybe somebody was raped or sexually assaulted in a room and there was no way for the hotel or business to know about it," McAdams told Bisnow last year.

“These are cases where there is undeniable evidence that these hotels facilitated this behavior and knew that it was going on — whether it was 40 people in one room throughout a two-day period or six girls who were recovered from one hotel in different rooms. We have a situation where a 14-year-old was moved freely from room to room. Situations where it was undeniable that there were signals something was going on.”

Annie McAdams filed the first groundbreaking sex trafficking cases in the United States against hotels, the trucking industry and giant technology companies...

REPRESENTATIVE CASES
CAUSE NO. 201804501; JANE DOE #1 vs. BACKPAGE.COM, LLC D/B/A BACKPAGE, CARL FERRER, MICHAEL LACEY, JAMES LARKIN, JOHN BRUNST, SCOTT SPEAR, MEDALIST HOLDINGS, LLC, LEEWARD HOLDINGS, LLC, CAMARILLO HOLDINGS, LLC, DARTMOOR HOLDINGS LLC, IC HOLDINGS, LLC, ATLANTISCHE BEDRIJVEN C.V., UGC TECH GROUP C.V., AMSTEL RIVER HOLDINGS, LLC, LUPINE HOLDINGS, LLC, KICKAPOO RIVER INVESTMENTS, LLC, CF HOLDINGS GP, LLC, CF ACQUISITIONS LLC, NEW TIMES MEDIA, LLC, CHOICE HOTELS INTERNATIONAL, INC. D/B/A QUALITY INN, RUTIK, LLC D/B/A PALACE INN, HYATT HOTELS CORPORATION D/B/A HYATT PLACE AND HYATT REGENCY, BALAJI HOTELS, INC. D/B/A SYMPHONY INN, PILOT TRAVEL CENTERS, LLC D/B/A FLYING J, FLYING J TRANSPORTATION, LLC, FINEFAIR, INC. D/B/A PORT AUTO TRUCK STOP, TRAVELCENTERS OF AMERICA, LLC D/B/A TA TRUCK STOP #017, TRAVEL CENTERS OF AMERICA HOLDING COMPANY, LLC, LOVES TRAVEL STOPS & COUNTRY STORES, INC. D/B/A LOVE’S TRUCK STOP #401 AND LOVES TRAVEL STOP 3940 N McCARTY, AND VISA U.S.A., INC. D/B/A VISA; In the 270th District Court of Harris County, Texas

Annie McAdams, as lead counsel, filed this ground breaking lawsuit filed on behalf of Jane Doe #1. This case is the first comprehensive sex trafficking lawsuit filed in the United States against Backpage, the hotel industry and trucking industry.

CAUSE NO. 201809781; JANE DOE #2 vs. BACKPAGE.COM, LLC D/B/A BACKPAGE, CARL FERRER, MICHAEL LACEY, JAMES LARKIN, JOHN BRUNST, SCOTT SPEAR, MEDALIST HOLDINGS, LLC, LEEWARD HOLDINGS, LLC, CAMARILLO HOLDINGS, LLC, DARTMOOR HOLDINGS LLC, IC HOLDINGS, LLC, ATLANTISCHE BEDRIJVEN C.V., UGC TECH GROUP C.V., AMSTEL RIVER HOLDINGS, LLC, LUPINE HOLDINGS, LLC, KICKAPOO RIVER INVESTMENTS, LLC, CF HOLDINGS GP, LLC, CF ACQUISITIONS LLC, RED LION HOTELS CORPORATION, GOLDEN SPRING ENTERPRISE, LLC D/B/A AMERICA’S BEST VALUE INN & SUITES, WOODLAND JOINT VENTURE, LLC, WYNDHAM HOTEL MANAGEMENT, INC., AND WYNDHAM WORLDWIDE CORPORATION; In the 129th District Court of Harris County, Texas

The Silvestri family which ran Casa de Campo resort are now in Plano TX. Links to an art gallery and Travel Centers of America and the hospitality ratlines https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/3977605

Claudio Silvestri and his wife had ties to the city and knew the Plano mayor as well as Jean Newman, founder of Plano Profile and John Longstreet now CEO of Quaker Steak & Lube restaurants ... TravelCenters of America (TA)..

Pizza Express Woking viewtopic.php?f=50&t=2503

Pizza Express was owned by the Gondola Group at the time of its sale in 2014. .... Gondola owned by Cinven...the company’s owner, is using bankers at Rothschild and Goldman Sachs to advise on an exit..company director: Hugh MacGillivray Langmuir....Imperial College London has announced a gift of £10 million ($13.1 million) from Hugh and Josseline Langmuir..

Cinven, CVC and Oakhill exit Avolon https://www.privateequityinternational. ... it-avolon/ ...sold to Chinese company Bohai, part of the HNA Group..Oak Hill Capital Partners is a private equity firm headquartered in New York City....investors Bill Gates and Nike founder Phil Knight...
Oak Hill Capital has invested in more than fifty significant private equity transactions, including: TravelCenters of America

Dublin, New York, Hong Kong & Shanghai, 20 May 2010 – Avolon, the aircraft leasing group, today announces it has successfully completed its initial capital raise of US$1.4 billion including an equity commitment of US$750 million from three of the world’s leading private equity firms.

Reddit hired (then unhired) so called 'pedo enabler' Aimee Knight, Subs go private by @kestrel9 viewtopic.php?f=16&p=8560#p8560

Aimee Knight > Children's Miracle Network Hospitals > Board member, Jenny Love Meyer, EVP & Chief Culture Officer, LOVE’S TRAVEL STOPS & COUNTRY STORES.. Pilot sold 20 Pilot Travel Centers locations and six Flying J locations to Love's Travel Stops & Country Stores on June 30, 2010.. In 2011, Pilot Flying J began a partnership with Truckers Against Trafficking..

In July 2010, Denny's presence in the United States saw a major expansion when Pilot Flying J started opening Denny's locations inside their Flying J-branded truck stop locations.[8] 123 Pilot Flying J conversions were eventually completed...Pilot Flying J's main restaurants include Arby's, Chester's Chicken, Dairy Queen, Denny's, McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Subway, Taco Bell, Wendy's, and Cinnabon. Recently they have also added Huddle House (full-service restaurants), Moe's Southwest Grill, and Dunkin Donuts.

On April 15, 2013, the headquarters of Pilot Flying J, located in Knoxville, Tennessee, was raided by FBI and IRS agents as part of an "ongoing investigation". On April 16, CEO Jimmy Haslam reported the investigation involved claims of failure to pay rebates to trucking customers...

.Denny's was founded by Harold Butler and Richard Jezak, who opened Danny's Donuts in Lakewood, California in 1953...In 1994, Denny's became the largest corporate sponsor of Save the Children

The Wings Club was born in New York City on May 15, 1942, in the early days of World War II, when a number of America’s aviation leaders decided to band together to find a suitable meeting place where they could gather to help chart the future course of aeronautics...

To establish the club’s leadership in civil and military aviation, a number of honorary members were elected, including:

General Hap Arnold, the commander of the U.S. Army Air Forces;
L. Welch Pogue, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board;
Dr. Jerome Hunsaker, chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and
Fiorello LaGuardia, the aviation-minded mayor of New York.

Initially using The Yale Club in midtown Manhattan as its headquarters, The Wings Club soon became a rallying place where aviation-minded people could discuss the latest aircraft and flying techniques.

..The Wings Club’s first Annual Dinner was held on March 22, 1944 at the famous Waldorf=Astoria Hotel. Noted military pilot and Eastern Air Lines executive Eddie Rickenbacker was the keynote speaker.

The hotel also was the site of a special meeting of The Wings Club in 1945, when a film showing the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was aired publicly for the first time during a Wings Club dinner honoring returning U.S. military aviators.

By April 1, 1946, The Wings Club had moved to the Biltmore Hotel, where it remained until relocating to 52 Vanderbilt Avenue on March 15, 1983.

Before serving as mayor, La Guardia represented Manhattan in Congress and on the New York City Board of Aldermen. As mayor, during the Great Depression and World War II, La Guardia unified the city's transit system; expanded construction of public housing, playgrounds, parks, and airports; reorganized the New York Police Department; and implemented federal New Deal programs within the city.

..La Guardia was also a major national political figure. His support for the New Deal and relationship with President Franklin D. Roosevelt crossed party lines, brought federal funds to New York City, and cut off patronage to La Guardia's enemies. La Guardia's WNYC radio program "Talk to the People," which aired from December 1941 until December 1945, expanded his public influence beyond the borders of the city.

..La Guardia was born in Greenwich Village, New York City on December 12, 1882. His father, Achille La Guardia, was a Catholic native of Cerignola, Italy.[5] His mother, Irene Luzzatto Coen, was a Jewish native of Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire; his maternal grandmother Fiorina (Luzzatto) Coen was a Luzzatto, a member of the prestigious Italian-Jewish family of scholars, kabbalists, and poets and had among her ancestors the famous rabbi Samuel David Luzzatto.[citation needed] La Guardia's parents met and married in Trieste..

He and Robert Moses built highways, bridges and tunnels, transforming the physical landscape of New York City. The West Side Highway, East River Drive, Brooklyn Battery Tunnel, Triborough Bridge, and two airports (LaGuardia Airport, and, later, Idlewild, now JFK Airport) were built during his mayoralty..

1939 was a busy year, as he opened the 1939 New York World's Fair at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park, Queens, opened New York Municipal Airport No. 2 in Queens (later renamed Fiorello H. LaGuardia Field), and had the city buy out the Interborough Rapid Transit Company and the Brooklyn–Manhattan Transit Corporation, thus completing the public takeover of the New York City Subway system. ..

In 1943, La Guardia saved the Mecca Temple on 55th Street from demolition. Together with New York City Council President Newbold Morris, La Guardia converted the building to the New York City Center of Music and Dance.

La Guardia was a Scottish Rite Freemason and was a member of Garibaldi Lodge #542 in New York City

New York City Center (previously known as the Mecca Temple, City Center of Music and Drama,[2] and the New York City Center 55th Street Theater[3]) is a 2,257-seat Moorish Revival theater at 131 West 55th Street..

originally called the Mecca Temple, by the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, more commonly known as Shriners.

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..While I was researching with Wolftrail7272 on St. Louis I had touched on Shriner's Hospital and am almost positive they are complicit. There is serious organ harvesting going on in St. Louis and if the Freemasons are involved you can bet that the Shriner's Hosp....

Coincidentally, Heather Podesta's sister Dr. Heidi Miller, works at the St. Louis Hospital: https://health.usnews.com/doctors/heidi-miller-222264

RE: The cleaning company at LaGuardia https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/8697

On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 7:47 PM, John Podesta <john.podestagmail.com>
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Has the unfortunate name ISS.

ISS A/S (International Service System) is a Facility Services company founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1901. ISS services include: cleaning services, support services, property services, catering services, security services and facility management services.

2011 British security company G4S announces it will acquire ISS in a deal worth £5.2 billion.

Chairman - Charles Allen, Baron Allen of Kensington ..He has been chairman of the British Red Cross....From 2006 to 2008, Allen was previously Chief Advisor to the British Home Office. He has also been a Senior Advisor to Goldman Sachs Private Equity, non-executive director of Endemol and Virgin Media and executive Chairman of EMI...

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..G4S was the security company working the bombing at that concert in England. (Ariana Grande,I believe)..

SANTA ANA, Calif., April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Allied Universal, a leading security and facility services company in North America, is pleased to announce the acquisition of G4S plc. This acquisition is now able to complete as Allied Universal has satisfied or waived all of the required offer conditions, including the required antitrust and regulatory approvals. At the offer price of 245p per G4S share, the acquisition value is £3.8bn.

In 1998, Andrew Hauptman and his wife, Ellen Bronfman, founded Andell Inc. (formerly known as Andell Ltd.), a private investment firm and family office formed in the UK and currently based in Los Angeles.[6][7] Andell manages assets that grew out of the Bronfman family's controlling position of The Seagram Co. Ltd. Andell invests directly in private and public companies and real estate, and acquires control and minority stakes.[5][8] Examples of past and current Andell portfolio companies include Allied Universal, Chicago Fire, AmWINS Group, Inc., BSN Sports, Universal Studios, MyEyeDr., NSC Minerals Ltd., Watco Companies, LLC, USI Insurance Services, Medforth Global Healthcare Education, Savage x Fenty, and University of St. Augustine.

Hauptman was born in 1969[1] to a Jewish family[2] and raised in Smithtown, New York.[3] His father was a pediatrician.[4] He graduated with a B.A. from Yale University[5] and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.[6] Early in his career, he worked at Alex. Brown & Sons in New York City and later, as an executive with Universal Studios in London, where he played a key role in the oversight of its international operations, focusing on the music and film entertainment groups...

Recipient of the Bodhisattva Initiation directly from the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, having greatly enjoyed adventures such as the pilgrimage to Mt. Kailash and Lake Manasarova with Sadhguru, and week-long journeys of intense initiation with both the Kogi in the mountains at Santa Marta, Columbia, and with the Pygmies in an equatorial rainforest in Gabon.

A firm believer that we need to rediscover our true relationships with the earth, the cosmos, each other, and ourselves.

Other work includes sitting on the executive committee of a multinational company; developing a sustainability manual with HRH Prince Charles; Chair a Global Agenda Council in Davos, and a UN Council on Green Cities.

Currently Secretary General of a UN Intergovernmental Organisation, and Chief Sustainability Officer to a hotel JV with the Universal Music Group.

Groups: Humanity Rising

Humanity Rising represents a global movement of people and organizations coming together to take counsel on how to start shaping the world beyond the pandemic.

Steve Sarowitz is Founder and Chairman of Paylocity, a leading U.S. provider of payroll and HR solutions. In addition, Steve also serves as CEO of Blue Marble, an international payroll provider, and as Director of Payescape, a UK payroll provider. He is also an international philanthropist with an interest in creating unity by promoting universal education and advocating for the elimination of racism, sexism, nationalism and religious prejudice. He also serves on the board of NCAT, an organization that builds state-of-the art training centers in urban areas.

In his second career as a filmmaker, Steve is now a partner with Justin Baldoni in Wayfarer Studios and executive producer of the Disney movie Clouds. Steve served as Executive Producer for the award-winning documentary Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise. Steve also produced a groundbreaking documentary called The Gate: Dawn of the Baha’i Faith, about the Bab, the Prophet Herald of the Baha’i Faith.

Learn more about Steve during his bi-weekly podcast: Humanity Rising VOICES Podcast Series – Creating World Peace Through Unity

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INSIDER TIP: The Royal Order of Jesters run pedophile blackmail rings https://searchvoat.co/v/pizzagate/1876200

The Royal Order of Jesters are a tax-exempt branch of Freemasons — specifically Shriners — that self-describe themselves as:
“a fun degree, with absolutely no serious intent. The motto, ‘Mirth is King,’ is sufficient to give voice to the purpose of the organization. The Royal Order of Jesters feel that there are times, after our hard work and dedication to family and mankind, when everyone should remember to laugh and appreciate the good work one has done.

More Jester members with Brazilian sex workers.

According to their tax returns, “brotherhood” and “friendship” are best experienced via regular $30,000 parties. There’s also no record of the organization donating any organizational money to charitable causes or anything outside of their parties...

But there’s a lot more to this.

On March 9th, 2008, Buffalo News broke a story involving New York Supreme Court Justice Ronald Tills, Erie County, NY Deputy Michael Lesinski, Lockport, NY Police Captain John Trowbridge and New York State Law Clerk Michael Stebick participating in a human trafficking operation that involved transporting undocumented immigrant sex workers from as far as Kentucky to New York and Canada.

Why?
They were transporting the young women to and from a private event held by The Royal Order of Jesters, of whom paid for the sex workers and quiet police transport....

These pictures I’ve been posting? They’re from another investigation in Brazil, of — you guessed it — The Royal Order of Jesters participating in sex, drug use, and other illicit acts with Brazilian girls as young as 13..

The Jesters were operating under the guise of a local fishing tour company called Wet-A-Line. The photos, as well as testimony of human trafficking, arose under a Defamation lawsuit in Texas that arose when a competing fishing-tour company discovered the operation.