Lawyer Arrested at Office in Federal Child Porn Sting Gets 24 Months
Arrested last year at his law office in a federal child porn sting, a Dayton, Ohio, attorney who allegedly transmitted sexually explicit material from his office and home computers over the Internet to two undercover law enforcement officers posing as minors has pleaded guilty and was sentenced today to 24 months.
Marc Norman Greenberg, who is in his mid-thirties, has also forfeited computer equipment and will be on supervised release for at least five years after he completes his term, according to the Dayton Daily News and a plea agreement provided by Scribd.
He declined to make any statement, the newspaper reports. But he was lectured by U.S. District Judge Thomas Rose, who noted Greenberg is educated and had a good home life: “You have taken your life and thrown it up in the air. You understood it was wrong, and you went ahead and did it.”
Greenberg pleaded guilty in August to a felony count of knowingly using the Internet to attempt to send obscene material to an individual under age 16 and a felony count of possessing computer equipment containing depictions of a minor involved in sexually explicit conduct.
Greenberg graduated with honors in 2003 from the University of Dayton School of Law, according to a biography posted online by a Kettering law firm for which he worked as an associate.
Additional and related coverage:
ABAJournal.com: “Prominent Kansas Lawyer Charged in Child Pornography Case”
ABAJournal.com: “Former Arnold & Porter Associate Charged with 10 More Child Porn Counts”
Dayton Daily News (May 2009): “CJ girls basketball coach caught in sex sting”
WLWT-TV (May 2009): “Dayton-Area Coach Charged In Federal Sex Sting”
