from www.bizjournals.com – The president and co-director of a Florida corporation was sentenced Friday to 33 months in prison for money laundering related to his company’s distribution of child pornography, federal prosecutors announced.
Marc Evan Greenberg, 45, of Fort Lauderdale, pleaded guilty in the Northern District of Alabama on April 2 to one count of money laundering – the same day his Webe Web pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to produce child pornography and 16 counts of transporting child pornography, a press release from the U.S. Department of Justice stated.
U.S. District Court Judge C. Lynwood Smith also sentenced Greenberg to three years of supervised release to follow his prison term and ordered Greenberg to pay $900,000 in restitution to six victims.
According to court documents, Webe Web was the registered owner of a website that promoted models 7 through 16 years and their photographers. It contained hyperlinks to websites containing photographs that Greenberg and Webe admitted contained illegal images, the press release stated.
Greenberg and Webe Web admitted that the websites depicting 16 victims and generated approximately $1 million in revenue.
The vice president and co-director of Webe Web, Jeffrey Robert Libman, pleaded guilty on Sept. 15 to 16 counts of transporting child pornography and was sentenced on Dec. 17 to 108 months in prison.
Florida Division of Corporate records indicate Webe Web had a principal address at 6003 NW 31st Ave. in Fort Lauderdale and Greenberg had an address on Middle River Drive in Fort Lauderdale. Libman had an address on 22nd Court in Davie.
According to court documents, the photographs of the victims were taken by Jeff Pierson, a former photographer based in the Birmingham area. Pierson pleaded guilty in January 2007 to conspiracy to transport child pornography and transportation of child pornography.