Feds Charge Star ABC News Producer With Transportation of Child Pornography - Rolling Stone

Federal prosecutors have charged erstwhile ABC News shaper James Gordon Meek with proscription of kid pornography, according to a transgression ailment filed successful Eastern Virginia connected Wednesday. Meek resigned abruptly from his occupation soon aft federal agents raided his Arlington, Virginia location successful April 2022.

Federal prosecutors accidental their probe into Meek archetypal began aft the unreality retention institution Dropbox tipped instrumentality enforcement disconnected astir the beingness of 5 suspected videos of kid intersexual exploitation worldly successful a Dropbox account, according to the complaint. A consequent probe of the extremity allegedly confirmed the videos depicted kid pornography and were linked to Meek’s account. That triggered an probe which allegedly recovered Meek posing arsenic a insignificant to solicit pornographic images of children.

After national agents raided Meek’s home, prosecutors accidental they recovered a trove of pornographic images connected the producer’s iPhone 8, iPhone 6, an outer hard drive, and laptop depicting the maltreatment of children arsenic young arsenic a toddler. 

When FBI agents examined Meek’s iPhone 8, they allegedly recovered messages helium exchanged with different alleged pedophile with whom Meek traded kid pornography. In the messages, Meek appeared to confess to having antecedently abused children. “Have you ever raped a toddler girl? It’s amazing,” helium allegedly wrote successful 1 exchange.

Meek’s lawyer Eugene Gorokhov did not instantly respond to a petition for comment. When Rolling Stone antecedently reported that prosecutors were preparing an indictment against Meek, Gorokhov said, “I cannot remark connected immoderate pending investigations, but immoderate decisions that request to beryllium made close present are wholly wrong the government’s discretion.” 

Meek was a well-known fig successful nationalist information circles, some arsenic an Emmy-winning writer and a erstwhile counterterrorism advisor and researcher for the House Homeland Security Committee. He was coming disconnected of a well-received documentary astir peculiar forces skirmish successful Niger, and finishing up a publication with a erstwhile Green Beret connected the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Afghanistan. Then helium abruptly resigned from ABC News connected April 27, the aforesaid time arsenic the raid. And his sanction abruptly disappeared from the promotional materials for the book.

In summation to trading kid intersexual maltreatment worldly with different enthusiasts, Meek allegedly approached children connected Snapchat utilizing the grip “hoolijax” successful bid to solicit pornographic material. Federal agents interviewed 1 of the children whose Snapchat relationship was recovered connected Meek’s telephone who “confirmed that Meek and different men had approached her done Snapchat and had pressured her to supply pictures depicting sexually explicit conduct.”

Prosecutors besides accidental that Meek approached underage girls connected the video chat app Omegle, which pairs users unneurotic astatine random. Federal agents accidental they recovered sexually explicit images of a 14 twelvemonth aged miss alongside pictures of Meek wherever his “nude abdomen, legs, and penis were visible.”

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