Press Release
MAN PLEADS GUILTY TO RECEIVING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
September 9, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jeffrey H. Sloman, Acting United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Enrique Gutierrez, Postal Inspector in Charge, U.S. Postal Inspection Service, John V. Gilles, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation and Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, Department of Justice, announced today that Jeffrey Robert Libman, 42, of Fort Lauderdale, pleaded guilty in Miami yesterday to one count of receiving child pornography.
Libman was indicted by a grand jury in Miami on April 28, 2009, for receiving, possessing and distributing child pornography. In his plea agreement, Libman admitted he received images that depict prepubescent children and children engaged in sadistic or masochistic conduct. At his sentencing, which is scheduled for Nov. 13, 2009, Libman faces a maximum term of 20 years in prison.
Libman was first identified by the U.S. Postal Inspection Service (USPIS) and the FBI during an investigation of Webe Web Corp., a Florida-based company. According to court documents, USPIS and FBI agents seized large volumes of computer media during the execution of a search warrant at Libman’s residence in Fort Lauderdale.
Libman, Marc Evan Greenberg and Webe Web Corporation were indicted in November 2006 in a separate case in the Northern District of Alabama for conspiracy to produce images of child pornography and transportation of images of child pornography. That case is still pending.
The case is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney A. Marie Villafaña, Assistant Deputy Chief Alexandra R. Gelber and Trial Attorney Elizabeth M. Yusi of the DOJ Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) and. The case is being investigated by USPIS, the FBI and CEOS’ High Tech Investigative Unit.
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