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Executive Sentenced in Child Pornography Case

A Reuters newswire article, via The New York Times, reports that:

A former chief executive of a financial printing company was sentenced yesterday to 15 months in prison for possessing child pornography and erasing thousands of seedy computer files when he learned he was under investigation.

The executive, Robert M. Johnson, 61, downloaded the pornography onto a company computer while chief executive of Browne & Company. He pleaded guilty to possessing at least two child pornography images in August.

Mr. Johnson, who had been publisher of Newsday, in Melville, N.Y., from 1986 to 1994, resigned from Browne and gave up his seat on New York’s state education board in July 2004 when learning of the investigation.

Mr. Johnson, who also admitted using a program to try to erase the files on the computer, made a tearful plea to Judge Richard J. Holwell of the Federal District Court in Manhattan, saying the pressure of being Browne’s chief executive made him severely depressed.

posted by Fergie @ 12/15/2006 09:50:00 PM