Accuser Becomes Accused: Top U.S. Official Investigated for Kiddie Porn
- Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:09pm by
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Anthony Mangione, a top federal agent in south Florida who has built his career fighting child pornography, is now under investigation for allegedly having kiddie porn stored on his computer. Mangione is the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s south Florida office.
According to the Miami Herald, “The agency has aggressively targeted child pornography, with Mangione frequently speaking out against ‘predators’ who illegally share images through their computers.”
As special agent in charge of ICE’s South Florida office, Mangione’s name often graced press releases lauding the agency’s efforts to fight child pornography, in both the cyber and real worlds. In statements, he talked about using technology to combat child pornography and his agency’s resolve to combat the crime.
“Too many children are victimized by predators that target the most vulnerable among us — our children,” Mangione said in a 2009 press release announcing that a 20-year-old Palm Beach County man was sentenced to more than 12 years in prison on child porn charges.
Mangione was planning to retire this summer. He has served his entire federal career with ICE and its predecessor, the U.S. Customs Service.
Federal officials, speaking anonymously because they were not authorized to comment on the record, expressed shock over the allegations.
FBI agents searched Mangione’s home and office this weekend for the alleged kiddie porn stored on his computer. No word yet on what they found.
Via a local CBS affiliate:
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Comments (105)
1956Danelectro
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:02pmInnocent until proven guilty.This case does stink,bad if he is being set up,worse if he is a pedophile. It is true though that unprotected servers and PCs can be remotely used by anyone with a decent set of hacking skills.Its a tragedy for all involved,except the producers of this kind of filth. Like the war on drugs,its a failure because only low level users are ever prosecuted and convicted to a high degree.
Report Post »As to why is ICE involved : because of human trafficking and international commerce.
It sure is a shame that you can go online and find every sex offender in your city but you can’t go online and find the producers of kiddie porn.
ED4237
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:41pmYou know why the producers and trafficers of kids are never prosecuted is simply because they pay more in bribes and give up low level people so the government can say they are protecting us from them. Ever wonder why they always during budget disputes on your local and state levels they threaten to or let out the pedophiles and murders and rapist and violent offenders to scare the general public into paying more money in taxes. They get on tv telling us that they must layoff all the cops and jailers and must let the worst out instead of nonviolent drug offenders because of mandetory sentences.
Report Post »yippyio
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:00pmThe Bruce Ritter syndrome.
Report Post »CarolinaGirl
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:50pmCould be a set-up by Eric Holder and Obama….Obama needs those illegal votes in 2012. So, they are trying to get rid of these immigration officials and other who might impede their chances of re-election. It’s a thought. Then again, it could be for real.
Report Post »loadingmyclips
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:45pmHell, it was probably evidence or something like that
Report Post »Salamander
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:42pmYou know, it amazes me that this stuff is provided by all the internet service providers (ISP’s), yet when there is an investigation, the focus is only on the end-user’s computer! There is some real crap out there, including snuff. If it’s against the law for the user, then it’s against the law for the pipe that put it there! (Magazine, CD, DVD, ISP, etc.) Maybe if they put ‘Ma Bell’ (or her modern equivalent) in jail, then there would be fewer end-users! On the other hand, as sick as it is, maybe it’s a 1st amendment issue and reflective of our corroded society! No wonder the Muslims hate us! (Although, they apparently surf for porn while sitting in their legislature!)
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:57pmI agree completely. I think the cops are putting child porn on the Internet themselves to sting as many as they can, just like fake hookers on the streets. Search for something like “mature gallery”. You‘ll see thumbnails of lots of sexy older women but when you click on the picture instead of seeing an older woman about 1 out of ten or twenty times you’ll see child porn. Why is this stuff not being taken off the net?
Report Post »BetterDays
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:05pmThat’s what spins my brain too, why the he// aren’t those sites shut down? It is not free speech to show sick images of kids for GODs sake!
Report Post »caprica
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:39pmone nation under God
Report Post »The Devil is working overtime, Christians should really be vigilant, the divil the deceiver is working overtime..
The Song “Alejandro”…. sung by Lady Gaga
Very subtle the devil sneeks into our lifes to get his dirty feet in the door to steal and destroy souls…
We don’t even realise it – and just by singing together with the lyrics of a seemingly ‘innocent’ song with a nice tune, we open the door wider for his evil spirit!!
‘Alejandro’ means: Mans defender and protector’ (GOD).
‘Fernando’ means: Ardent for peace (JESUS).
‘Roberto’ means: Bright or shiningly frame (HOLY SPIRIT).
‘Babe’ is the same as ‘Child’
“Don’t call my name, don’t call my name, Alejandro(GOD).
I’m not your child, i’m not your child, Fernando (JESUS)
Don’t call my name, don’t call my name, Roberto (HOLY SPIRIT)
Alejandro. Alejandro(GOD), Just let me go.”
-Lady Gaga-
People, please stop listening to Lady Gaga; real name “Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta”, Encourage especially your children and grand children not to listen to this woman’s music!
She sold her soul to the devil for fame and fortune..
8mil followers on twitter, top selling artist and the “icing on the cake” top winner at the Grammy’s: See herebelow
This is clearly the devil at work…
Herebelow, (with her inside the egg) carried on a cross, how DEMONIC!!,
Zer0
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:21pmWow. I can think of many reasons why not to listen to Lady Gaga, but the Devil wasn’t the first that came to my mind. What does your post have to do with a federal law enforcement officer being suspected of possessing child pornography? Wait. Nevermind. Sorry I asked.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:36pmNot enough info.
Report Post »urfree2b4now
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:35pmThey searched his home and office computers but haven’t said what they found.
If he’s the head of this division and it deals with this type of thing, wouldn’t he almost have to have sick crap like that stored on his work computer?
Report Post »Something doesn’t sound right about this.
The story is really ‘lean’.
There needs to be more information before you call him guilty of something so sick.
parlayer
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:32pmThe people who serve, are there own worst enemy. It’s no wonder nobody has any respect for any authority. I don’t, cop lied on the stand over a(supposed) open container which wasen’t in my car. typical of authority.
Report Post »GODBLESSOURCOUNTRY
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:29pmAs head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement in South Florida – apparently he has way too much time on his hands…
Report Post »Sjah
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:27pmSounds like he is ether one sick puppy OR He was working from home and he pissed some one off and is being fed to the wolves. One thing we dont think about is that some people have to analyze that garbage it requires looking at it to look for signs of who made it where it was made etc. Sound more like he broke protocol.
Report Post »UrsaMajor
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:26pmThat’s the worst part of catching kiddie-porn pervs… they actually have to view the kiddie-porn themselves in order to catch them.
Maybe it’s a set-up. Maybe it’s an accident. Maybe it’s a case of the guy working in the Jack Daniels distillery becoming an alchoholic.
Innocent ’til proven guilty.
Report Post »MicahEffinMaddox
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:26pmI’m guessing he peed in the wrong persons fruit loops. If he’s guilty, I say string him up.
Report Post »Ella
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:26pmI guess he’s just one of those hard workers who brings his work home with him.
Report Post »sodizzy
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:00pmExactly. He was just working overtime, right?
Report Post »SoCaLCapitalist
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:24pmeasy enough to prove if he didn’t do it. The computer stores a record of activity. if it all happened on one occasion or on occasions he couldn‘t of been around he’ll be proven innocent. However, if there is pattern and he was there for it, then I hope he is proven guilty.
Key Logger Programs on computers store all the information even if you think it’s gone. One of my friends specializes in forensic Data Recovery.
Report Post »God bless Texas
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:24pmThis stinks
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:22pmKiddie Porn? Well not if he’s a Democrat. Remember, rape of a 13 year old is fine to Democrats. They laugh and call it rape-rape if it’s a “wonderful liberal Hollywood director”. So I’m sure pictures are certainly no big thing to them.
Report Post »LadyIzShy
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:22pm“Anthony Mangione, a top federal agent in south Florida who has built his career fighting child pornography, is now under investigation for allegedly having kiddie porn stored on his computer. Mangione is the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s south Florida office.”
what does kiddie porn have to do with immagration and customs?
Report Post »Zer0
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:08pm@LadyIzShy,
“what does kiddie porn have to do with immagration and customs?” Customs if the child porn is coming into the country from a foreign source. Other than that, I’m with you in your confusion.
Report Post »swonga
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:00pmno wonder we can‘t and don’t enforce illegals…
Report Post »taebaggranny
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 2:18am@ LADYIZSHY Ever hear of the child sex trade? Little kids brought into the states for child prostitution reasons.. BIG business in some of the bigger cities in the U S A..They are sold to the highest bidder like cattle.!!
Report Post »blazingaway
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:22pmIf this is another Elloit SPITZER case it just goes to show why Americans should not trust the government to solve their problems without verifying who is in charge. We are better off without government and owning a gun than to be subject to corrupt government officials who we grant to them the power to lock us up and destroy us.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:28pmPerhaps this deviant in Florida can get a job hosting a show on CNN too.
Report Post »Ceefour
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:20pmKinko the clown loves you boys and girls…yes he really does
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:46pmI thought Kinkos did copies?
Report Post »Nobamazone
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:18pmI would say, lets wait and see, he is not proven guilty yet
Report Post »could be retaliation, could be work related (?)
could be a pervert
Cemoto78
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:24pmYour right.
Report Post »Hungry_i
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:49pmHe was doing research.
Report Post »riverwomansdaughter
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 3:31pmWhatever happened to “innocent until proven guilty”? Doesn’t the media have to hold to this standard anymore? or can they convict anyone they want to through insinuation?
Report Post »Cherynn
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:18pmSet up by the feds to get out of paying his pension. Its a new cost cutting measure.
Report Post »onejimharris
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:06pmIts Obama getting jobs for his people
Report Post »ZaphodsPlanet
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:20pmDidn’t he, or one of his commies say something like, “It’s time for people to step down from their higher positions and let someone else have a chance”….. is this how they’re going to be doing it?
This does smell a little bit funny…. Maybe he busted someone bringing Soros a new batch of girlfriends.
Report Post »Barb1954
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:17pmIs this for real or a set up?
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:16pmFBI agents searched Mangione’s home and office this weekend for the alleged kiddie porn stored on his computer. No word yet on what they found.
End of story…for now
Report Post »luvamerica
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:14pmSick!
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:33pmUgh!
Report Post »marine249
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:10pmdo as i say — not as i do
Report Post »Bluebonnet
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:53amHope it’s just a farce. However, do you notice how many people in authority seem to fall into the trap of becoming who they are chasing? Hardly a week goes by but a teacher has sex with a child, or gym teacher have an affair with a student, or those against child porn seem to gravitate toward it? Something on news in last few day showed a man in another country looking at child porn on his phone while congress was in session, and he was on committee to fight it? Who do you trust?
Report Post »riverwomansdaughter
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 3:32pmDon‘t convict the man before he’s even had a trial.
Report Post »Hickory
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:11pmIs this real or retalitation from someone?
Report Post »moonpeace
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:22pmRetaliation can still be very real.
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:23pmThat’s the first thing that came to my mind too. Either that or this guy is really sick.
Report Post »Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:35pmNot making an excuse for the guy, but there was a case where malware would make computers a server for file sharing, it would run in the background and in some cases, stuff was loaded onto computers without the owners knowledge. A govt worker had his computer infected and they proved what this program was doing, it included setting the computer up for a kiddie porn server. The guy and several others were cleared, so everytime you hear of these cases, sometimes, and it is very rare, they are not guilty. But it is easy to tell, has the file been accessed, when, how many times, where was it stored, etc.
Shoot, if he mad enough people mad, an administrator could upload anything to his computer.
But as I said, this Not Guilty is in very, very few cases.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:40pmTo have searched his computer there must have been sufficient evidence of some other crime to warrant the search. There is no indication in this story what precipitated the search.
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:44pmSomething sounds really wrong about this – I will be interested in seeing how this turns out!
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Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 8:55pmI wonder if PCMatic turned him in?
Report Post »Mee the People
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:38pmwhat happened to their code of kiddy porn
PrfctlyFrank
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:45pmNotice how many actual facts are presented, and actual accusations made.. This looks from the outset like a smear of some kind.. This dude must have cost someone a lot of money at some time in the past.. It’s utterly irresponsible to run a story like this with no more evidence than has been presented..
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:49pmSomething stank for me from the first word of this story. I want to “learn’ more, but this is just too….coincidental.
Report Post »But “we the people’ will never know the truth.
Anti_Spock
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 9:59pmI‘m wondering if our government hasn’t already perfected mind control through wireless networks. This country is undergoing an explosion of these-type of crimes. When you think about it… all that is required to send you to prison and be branded a sex criminal for your entire life is kiddie porn on your hard drive. Is our country this screwed up? Or is this a darker agenda to criminalize all of society, stripping them of gun rights and carte blanche.
Report Post »My Sacred Honor
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:13pmAnti_Spock
Report Post »Stripping America of her gun rights will entail an undertaking the entire world combined is not willing to uphold. Units would have to go house to house, casualties on the aggressor’s side would be massive, and the attrition rate would far be exceeded on the enemy’s side than on ours.
They can‘t HIRE that kind of merc to fully impliment that ’law”.
Never ever will it happen.
the_ancient
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:23pmThe most vocal people against something like this normally are that way due to guilt.
Report Post »Showtime
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 10:27pmQuestion: Is this “kiddie porn” stored on his computer as evidence?
Report Post »restorehope
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:13pmIf he is being set up, I hope there is a way of tracing who loaded the porn on his computer. Maybe he made some enemies doing his job and they want him removed with prejudice. Nothing surprises me anymore. It seems odd that someone with his credentials for successfully fighting child porn would be stupid enough to practice it himself. A very convenient a way to silence him, however.
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:29pmMY SACRED HONOR… this is a felony. All felons lose gun rights. My point wasn’t clear… but what if the gov’t is hacking computers and putting this crap on unsuspecting user hard drives? It just seems every day I hear about someone doing this. Is it really that high? Is this a precursor to a coming landslide… you know… get the public used to it before dropping the big axe?
SHOWTIME… I think it has to be page views. Computers store images of every site page you visit. I don’t think any “downloading” is required.
Report Post »mill
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:35pmwho got arrested becuase of him?…..retaliation
Report Post »Anti_Spock
Posted on April 12, 2011 at 11:36pmMY SACRED HONOR and SHOWTIME… forgot to state my confusion over this. Why isn’t our government blocking illegal websites? It’s easy to do. Viewing kiddieporn is a felony… so BLOCK IT. Like… duh?
Report Post »AWAKENEDAWARE
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 12:43amYeah i am wondering the same thing. these pervs have pretty decent computer skills. they might have been able to plant some evidence in his systems. computers suck.
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 5:52amThe government will probably promote this pervert to a top spot at TSA.
Report Post »KellyR
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 11:18amSeems like several of us had a similar reaction.
Report Post »taskmaster78
Posted on April 13, 2011 at 3:29pmI take it with a grain of salt. This administration will deflect and make up evidence to all who are against it. so I wont hold judgement until it becomes fact or until he spills the beans on what the Obama administration has been up to.
Not totally chocked, he was to retire this summer, under what circumstances, was he pushed out?
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