Getting one last tour of the USA before getting jailed.
You're not far from the the truth. If you think about the roaring 20s and the upper echelons of wealth during depression and shortly afterward. By this time, people were engaging in all sorts of risque behavior behind closed doors. All in the name of being cosmopolitan and modern, of course.
Picture shows were already embedded in American life by that time, and we all know who was running the show there. Federal gov't was already infiltrated with education and banking under the control of people that didn't have this country's best interest in mind.
It's amazing we've lasted this long, to be completely honest.