According to a recently published press release, Aaron Campbell Brown, a 26-year-old Boston man, has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for money laundering and conspiracy to sell, transport, reproduce, distribute and receive child pornography. The report came today and was made by Assistant Attorney General Alice S. Fisher of the Criminal Division and U.S. Attorney John L. Brownlee of the Western District of Virginia announced today.
The man was sentenced today in the West District of Virginia in the city of Roanoke. A U.S. District Court Judge, Samuel G. Wilson, ordered that Brown pay a total of $128,300 and serve a total of five consecutive years of supervised and monitored release after his 10 year prison term.
Brown’s charges spanned over a period of over five years. He was involved in child pornography trade on several websites including mexicofriends.com and justinfriends.com. Both of these sites were created, developed, hosted, and operated by Brown and co-partners Gregory John Mitchel and Timothy Ryan Richards. His company was hosted on neova.net. At this site he provided internet hosting, technical assistance, and customer payment processing. The websites also contained tons of children pornography and gave members access to the porn for a small fee. The three men split the money from the subscription savings.
On May 14, Brown officially plead guilty in court to one count of conspiracy to sell, transport, reproduce, distribute and receive child pornography, and one count of money laundering.
Even though Brown now faces 10 years in prison, his former co-partners face harsh punishment as well. On July 14th, Mitchel was sentenced to 150 years in prison for child pornography offenses. Richards was convicted on children pornography offenses on October 26th of last year by the Middle District of Tennessee. He will be sentenced on August 20, 2007 and will face up to 15 years behind bars.
The entire child pornography case of Brown, Mitchel, and Richards was prosecuted by Trial Attorney Bonnie L. Kane, and former Deputy Chief Sherri A. Stephan of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, and Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph W. H. Mott of the Western District of Virginia. The case was also investigated by FBI Special Agent J. Brooke Donahue and the High Technology Investigative Unit of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section. More information will be available soon. Information about Richards’ case will be released after he is sentenced later this month on August 20th.
