• Re: Ex-ABC/Disney News reporter James Gordon Meek facing minimum 5 year

    From Mark Weeder@21:1/5 to All on Mon Aug 7 09:00:01 2023
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    On 21 Nov 2021, David Hartung <d_hartung@hotmail.corn> posted some news:42DmJ.47316$lz3.18599@fx34.iad:

    Rudy Canoza has pictures of this pervert next to his bed. He puts on a
    dress and sticks things up his butthole.

    Disgraced former ABC News reporter James Gordon Meek is facing at least
    five years in prison after pleading guilty to child pornography in a
    Virginia federal court Friday.

    Meek, 53, admitted to transporting and possessing child sexual abuse
    material, which carries jail time ranging from 5-20 years.

    Under federal sentencing guidelines that come with his guilty plea, Meek
    is likely to face far less than the max at his Sept. 29 sentencing.

    Meek, a once-acclaimed national security journalist, was hit with the
    federal charges in February roughly 10 months after the FBI raided his Arlington, Va., home April 27, 2022, seizing his electronics.

    Meek resigned from ABC News and went off the grid immediately after the
    raid.

    On his phone, the feds say they found three conversations in which Meek allegedly expressed a desire to sexually abuse children — and they found
    he had both received and sent photos and videos of child pornography.

    In one troubling message, Meek allegedly asked someone on a chat app,
    “Have you ever raped a toddler girl? It’s amazing.” And in another
    message he shared a perverted fantasy of “abducting, drugging, and
    raping” a 12-year-old girl.

    The shamed journalist also kept child porn images and videos on his
    other devices that showed he’d chatted with minors on the internet,
    prosecutors allege.

    The probe was launched after Dropbox alerted officials that Meek had
    child porn on his account.

    Meek was hired by the network in 2013 after working for the New York
    Daily News — where he broke a story in 2006 that Al-Qaeda was foiled in
    its plan to bomb the New York City tunnels.

    Meek investigated and produced Hulu’s acclaimed 2021 documentary “3212 Un-redacted” about a US Special Forces mission in Niger that left four
    soldiers dead in 2017. He also won an Emmy in 2017 for breaking news
    coverage of the Pulse nightclub shooting.

    Meek served as a senior counterterrorism advisor and investigator for
    the US House Committee on Homeland Security starting in 2011.

    His lawyer didn’t immediately return a request for comment Friday.

    Phil N
    21 July, 2023

    Will soon get out for good behavior, after serving less than 10% of his sentence.

    Then, get hired by news media outlets.

    In today's world, where the billionaire and his paid-for attorneys and
    judges see to it that very few people go to jail, this news reporter
    didn't have the good fortune of having the billionaire support him.

    Daphne Evadne
    21 July, 2023

    Wait a second......wait a second.....I thought his lawyer said when he
    was originally arrested that he didn't do this - it was all a set up -
    and that he the lawyer was going to prove his innocence.

    https://nypost.com/2023/07/21/ex-abc-news-reporter-james-gordon-meek-face s-minimum-5-years-in-child-porn-case/

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