U.S. Immigration boss pleads to child porn

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

U.S. Immigration boss pleads to child porn

*Update Jan. 29, 2013*
Miami -
The former top cop in south Florida for the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) has entered a guilty plea to possession of child pornography. Anthony Mangione, 51, was placed under investigation and suspended in April 2011 after internet service provider AOL alerted officials to suspicious activity on his account. MGRR reported on this case Sept. 27, 2011, the day he was arrested in his office in the federal courthouse here. Federal ICE chief in Miami arrested on child porn charges.

Mangione appeared in U.S. District Court in West Palm Beach July 20. He admitted to receiving and transmitting more than 10 images of children between three and 15 years old, all of whom were photographed with genitals exposed or in sexually provocative situations. Mangione faces between five and 20 years in prison. Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 5. He remains in custody without bond.

Mangione spent his entire 27 year federal career with Immigration and Customs Enforcement or its predecessor agencies. He was appointed Florida regional head of the department in 2007. A rising star in ICE, Mangione was a a fierce public advocate for severe penalties against those involved in child pornography, promising to "prosecute them tirelessly."

Jan. 29, 2013 - A late update is better than no update. MGRR neglected to report on Mangione's sentencing in November. A federal judge gave him 70 months. With credit for the 18 months he'd already served, Mangione will be out in four years. Here's an interesting article which appeared in Britain's Daily Mail last fall: The double life of the law man who led the fight against child pornography.

1 comment:

Stewart MJuly 24, 2012 at 1:29 PM
You have to love it when someone who was "a fierce public advocate for severe penalties against those involved in child pornography", especially when he was a law enforcement officer, pleads guilty to, wait for it, possession of child pornography. It's almost as good as when one of those rabid anti-gay Christian ministers gets caught getting a blow job in his car from a male hooker.

Seriously though, it is good to see this guy off the streets and away from small children...
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