PITTSBURGH — Federal prosecutors filed documents Thursday at U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh, charging that Adult DVD Empire, under the corporate name Right Ascension, which operates AdultDVDEmpire.com, mailed four DVDs containing obscene material to an Erie post office box in May 2007.

The four DVDs are identified as “A Bounty of Pain,” “Shattering Krystal” both from Dan Hawke Productions, “Extreme Tit Torture 18” from Galaxy Productions and “Pussy Torture 8” also from Galaxy and directed by Rick Savage. More than a year ago, FBI agents raided the company’s warehouses in Warrendale, Pa. and likely seized copies of those DVDs.

Adult DVD Empire will plead guilty to a single charge of obscenity and as part of the deal, Adult DVD Empire will be on a three-year probation and pay a $75,000 fine.

In an interview with www.xbiz.com attorney Lawrence Walters [pictured] said that this appears to be a pre-arranged, pre-packaged deal where all the parties involved came to an agreement in advance.

According to Walters, the deal was structured in a way where the corporation was charged, not an individual, so no one will be doing time in jail.

Walters says the charges seems to have been initiated by Mary Beth Buchanan, the former U.S. District Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania but now that Buchan’s gone, the government wanted to get rid of the case where no one would go to jail.

“It was an easy way for the government to save face without a big trial,” said Walters who cautioned that with a plea deal the obscenity charges against the movies will move forward, and the case will result in a conviction.