A small paper in New York City wrote an article in which they claim to have obtained a letter that the head of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity section of the Justice Department sent to conservative organizations on August 7, the day the indictment against Extreme Associates was handed down.
The paper, lumping child pornography in with legal adult entertainment, claims that at least 49 makers and distributors of porn are under investigation, with indictments to be handed down over the next few months.
The deputy assistant attorney general for the criminal division, John Malcolm, told The New York Sun in an interview, that the Justice Department was returning to the prosecution tactics of pornography that were used during the Reagan and Bush Sr. administrations.
“The lack of federal enforcement over the previous eight years sent a message to those who produce and distribute this material that they would get a free pass and enabled this to proliferate,” Malcolm said.
“Absolutely we are doing more,” Malcolm told The New York Sun . “More charges will be brought in the future.” Over the past year, there have been 19 federal obscenity-related convictions, and indictments have been brought in eight more, he said.
The New York Sun doesn’t mention that most of those 19 convictions were child porn related. A few cases have involved defecation.
“One current case involves the owners of approximately 100 adult stores located in a number of states that pander ‘mainstream’ videos,” Andrew Oosterbaan, the head of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity section of the Justice Department purportedly wrote in a letter to leaders of conservative factions on August 7.
“Another target is one of the largest producers of sexually explicit videos in the world,” the letter allegedly goes on.
Other media outlets have referred to such a letter, but none have quoted or listed facts that appear in The New York Sun.
AVN.com has not been able to obtain the letter that is being referred to. Calls to the Justice Department to confirm such a letter exist have not been returned.
The New York Sun. is a new newspaper in New York with a publication of 26,263 that was launched last year. The paper is chaired by a former speechwriter for Ronald Reagan.
