Legislation enforcement arrested a Washington Publish journalist accused of possessing baby pornography at his house within the District this week.
The U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the District of Columbia mentioned in a launch that FBI brokers searched the house of Thomas Pham LeGro, 48, Thursday and seized a number of digital gadgets.
The legal professional’s workplace alleged {that a} folder on a piece laptop computer present in Mr. LeGro’s house contained 11 movies of kid sexual abuse materials. Fragments of a tough drive have been additionally present in a hallway exterior the room the place brokers discovered the laptop computer, federal prosecutors mentioned.
Mr. LeGro was taken into custody following the execution of the search warrant.
Investigators additionally linked Mr. LeGro to an account on the web digital forex platform E-Gold used for fee by a number of baby pornography web sites, in accordance with a redacted affidavit.
A profile on the Publish’s web site says that Mr. LeGro labored because the paper’s deputy director of video, and mentioned that he was a part of a group of journalists on the paper that received a 2018 Pulitzer Prize for his or her work masking U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore.
The Washington Publish mentioned in a press release that it “understands the severity of those allegations, and the worker has been positioned on go away.”
