Jeffrey Feldman, Receipt of Child Pornography, Wisconsin 2015

A Milwaukee man has pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography, according to a plea agreement announced today by James L. Santelle, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

The defendant, Jeffrey Feldman, 48, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, pled guilty to one count of receipt of child pornography.

According to the plea agreement, in January 2013, Federal Bureau of Investigation special agents detected Feldman sharing files containing child pornography over the Internet via a peer-2-peer network.

Based in part on this information, law enforcement agents obtained a search warrant for Feldman’s residence, where they recovered numerous encrypted computers and electronic storage devices.

Subsequent decryption and forensic analysis of those devices revealed that Feldman had knowingly received thousands of child pornography image and video files via the Internet, including the files charged in the indictment.

Sentencing is scheduled for July 10, 2015, before United States District Court Judge Lynn S. Adelman of the Eastern District of Wisconsin.

At the conclusion of today’s hearing, the defendant was remanded into federal custody.

In announcing today’s plea, United States Attorney Santelle stated: The plea entered today by Jeffrey Feldman is a reflection not only of his acknowledgment of guilt for his receipt of substantial amounts of child pornography but also of the focused and effective work of investigators and prosecutors in bringing him to justice.

The case was investigated by the FBI and prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Karine Moreno-Taxman of the Eastern District of Wisconsin and Trial Attorney Jeffrey Zeeman of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section.

This criminal prosecution is a part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the United States Department of Justice.

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