John's mother is Mary Kokoris b. 1918 (http://www.thenationalherald.com/11823/mother-of-chief-of-staff-to-bill-clinton-podesta-dies-at-89/))
her mother is May L Kalanze https://voatpic.me/ABE8392AD0
she came to America in 1910 under the name Thomais Kalantzi (https://voatpic.me/8B93D8E304))
Here is the passenger list for the Patris arriving in NY in 9 Oct 1910 at 16 years of agehttps://voatpic.me/80C2B7EF5E
second page says that her Father Reverend Theodozos Russiano paid for her voyage. This person does not exist in the US Census, nor does the address exist at this time period. The street name seems significant Broad St as in dames or broads. (https://voatpic.me/ED223CEEF4))
Probably involved in human trafficking from Greece. At this time period there was a law passed to stop the "White Slave Trade." The Mann Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mann_Act))
It seems like they were able to skirt through regulation by claiming it was a reverend that paid for their journey. Remember the scar mentioned on the naturalization application. An interesting story is mentioned in this book that details traffic of young girls written by Ernest Bell (https://archive.org/details/fightingtraffici00bell)) on pages 54-56 where an Italian girl is trying to escape.
"But she was not quick enough and the hand of the oppressor was upon her. IN the wild scene that followed she was slashed with a razor, one gash straight through her right eye, one across her cheek and another slitting her ear."
The book talks about trafficking in Chicago, and cities across the world. Nothing is new under the sun.
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Melitica ago
How does any of this link Mary Podesta to human trafficking in ?Greece?
pizzaphish ago
In 1910 Mary's mom immigrated from Greece. In the time period it was mentioned in the book on white slave trade for Americans to travel overseas and find the prettiest girls to enslave in brothels. They may offer them education for the girl In America. On the passenger manifest it shows us that she was a "scholar" at 16 and that she was likely a victim herself because she was traveling alone and paid for by a "Reverend" father. I've included Mary's birth certificate online record to show that this is in fact Podesta's grandmother