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ANOTHER PORN INDICTMENT, THIS TIME IN L.A. - 07/25/07 10:28 PM
It's not just the sticks anymore. From INFOWORLD/IDG:
U.S. man faces online porn charges
Latest indictment marks the third time the DOJ has filed Internet obscenity charges against U.S. residents since mid-May
A U.S. grand jury in Los Angeles has charged a California man with operating an Internet-based obscenity distribution business and other offenses, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
The indictment, returned Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, charges Ira Isaacs, with four counts of using an interactive computer service to sell and distribute obscene films on DVD, two counts of using a common carrier to distribute obscene DVDs and two counts of failing to label sexually explicit DVDs with the name and location of the custodian of records containing age and identification information for performers in sexually explicit films.
Isaacs did business as Stolen Car Films and LA Media, the DOJ said.
The maximum penalty for each count is five years in prison.
The court will issue a summons to Isaacs, who is believed to live in the Hollywood Hills near Los Angeles, in court for arraignment in August. The indictment also seeks the forfeiture of all obscene materials produced and transported by Isaacs and any money from the sale of the materials.
This is the third time the DOJ has filed Internet obscenity charges against U.S. residents since mid-May. In May, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida, in Tampa, handed down a 10-count obscenity indictment against Paul F. Little, known as Max Hardcore, and MaxWorld Entertainment.
In mid-June, the DOJ filed one charge of selling obscene material against Sami R. Harb and Michael Harb, who operated the Internet business Movies by Mail. Those charges were filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Utah.
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The AP reports that Isaacs' titles "mentioned animals and euphemisms for sexual acts."
His attorney, Roger Jon Diamond said Isaacs was unfairly targeted by the government.
"There's no question the materials are disgusting to most people," Diamond said of the films. "The question is whether or not a free society should tolerate consenting adults seeing what they want to see no matter how disgusting the content may be."
He also contend none of the performers in the DVDs were underage.
"There might have been an inadvertent foul-up with respect to labeling," Diamond said. "They're all adults."
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The US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California notes that the case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Kenneth Whitted of the Justice Department’s Obscenity Prosecution Task Force and Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig H. Missakian of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. The Task Force was formed to focus on the prosecution of adult obscenity nationwide. The investigation was conducted by the FBI’s Adult Obscenity Squad, a national initiative of the FBI based in the Washington, D.C. Field Office, and agents from the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office. The Los Angeles Police Department assisted in the investigation.
U.S. man faces online porn charges
Latest indictment marks the third time the DOJ has filed Internet obscenity charges against U.S. residents since mid-May
A U.S. grand jury in Los Angeles has charged a California man with operating an Internet-based obscenity distribution business and other offenses, the U.S. Department of Justice announced Wednesday.
The indictment, returned Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, charges Ira Isaacs, with four counts of using an interactive computer service to sell and distribute obscene films on DVD, two counts of using a common carrier to distribute obscene DVDs and two counts of failing to label sexually explicit DVDs with the name and location of the custodian of records containing age and identification information for performers in sexually explicit films.
Isaacs did business as Stolen Car Films and LA Media, the DOJ said.
The maximum penalty for each count is five years in prison.
The court will issue a summons to Isaacs, who is believed to live in the Hollywood Hills near Los Angeles, in court for arraignment in August. The indictment also seeks the forfeiture of all obscene materials produced and transported by Isaacs and any money from the sale of the materials.
This is the third time the DOJ has filed Internet obscenity charges against U.S. residents since mid-May. In May, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Florida, in Tampa, handed down a 10-count obscenity indictment against Paul F. Little, known as Max Hardcore, and MaxWorld Entertainment.
In mid-June, the DOJ filed one charge of selling obscene material against Sami R. Harb and Michael Harb, who operated the Internet business Movies by Mail. Those charges were filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Utah.
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The AP reports that Isaacs' titles "mentioned animals and euphemisms for sexual acts."
His attorney, Roger Jon Diamond said Isaacs was unfairly targeted by the government.
"There's no question the materials are disgusting to most people," Diamond said of the films. "The question is whether or not a free society should tolerate consenting adults seeing what they want to see no matter how disgusting the content may be."
He also contend none of the performers in the DVDs were underage.
"There might have been an inadvertent foul-up with respect to labeling," Diamond said. "They're all adults."
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The US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California notes that the case is being prosecuted by Trial Attorney Kenneth Whitted of the Justice Department’s Obscenity Prosecution Task Force and Assistant U.S. Attorney Craig H. Missakian of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Los Angeles. The Task Force was formed to focus on the prosecution of adult obscenity nationwide. The investigation was conducted by the FBI’s Adult Obscenity Squad, a national initiative of the FBI based in the Washington, D.C. Field Office, and agents from the FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office. The Los Angeles Police Department assisted in the investigation.
