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TexasTowelie

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Sat Oct 15, 2016, 11:38 PM Oct 2016

Married GOP Politician Admits to Sexting Male Teen in Video Pleading for His Job



Last week we reported on Mike Yenni, a Republican politician representing Louisiana’s largest parish, who is being investigated by the FBI for allegedly having sexted a 17-year-old male.

Yenni is married with a three-year-old daughter. He reportedly met the teen at a function at the teen’s Catholic high school when he was mayor of Kenner, Louisiana in 2015. Yenni, 40, is a Louisiana Catholic high school alum though it’s unclear if he attended the same school as the boy with whom he began sexting.

Seventeen is the age of consent in Louisiana. According to the teen, Yenni was introduced to him by a mutual friend who was 19 at the time.

Yenni has since released a video admitting he sexted with the teen and pleading with the people of Jefferson Parish for his job.

Read more: http://www.towleroad.com/2016/10/mike-yenni-sexting/

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Married GOP Politician Admits to Sexting Male Teen in Video Pleading for His Job (Original Post) TexasTowelie Oct 2016 OP
On why the FBI is investigating (as 17 is Louisiana's age of consent) Bibliovore Oct 2016 #1

Bibliovore

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1. On why the FBI is investigating (as 17 is Louisiana's age of consent)
Sun Oct 16, 2016, 10:04 AM
Oct 2016

From the article:


The FBI is investigating Yenni’s behavior for reasons other than the age of the teen (as noted earlier, 17 is the age of consent).

According to one expert, the FBI may charge him with a federal law that aims to protect children under 18 from “obscenity.” This law prohibits “the transmission of any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication which is obscene or child pornography, knowing that the recipient of the communication is under 18 years of age, regardless of whether the maker of such communication placed the call or initiated the communication.”
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