New Jersey Republican Committeeman Arrested in Child Porn Ring

Porn arrest shocks Sparta

Posted Saturday, January 29, 2005 by Webmaster

By BRENDAN BERLS
Herald Staff Writer

SPARTA — A well-known local attorney and Republican committeeman is among 39 people across New Jersey facing charges for allegedly downloading an Internet video showing the rape of a 5-year-old girl.
The charges filed Thursday against Jeffrey Patti, 36, spread disbelief and horror among the many people who know him in Sparta political circles and the Sussex County legal community — disbelief at the arrest of a seemingly upstanding family man, and horror at the sordidness of the allegations.

Patti, who is married and has two daughters — an infant and a 2-year-old — was charged with both possession and distribution of child pornography after being arrested at his home Thursday morning by investigators who also seized his personal computer.
If convicted of the distribution charge, a second-degree crime, he faces up to 10 years in state prison and would have to register for life as a sex offender.

When state officials announced the arrests, they singled out the most disturbing piece of evidence found on computers they seized — video clips depicting a Georgia man raping a 5-year-old girl. The rapist in the video, James Bidwell, was arrested after sending copies of the tape to Canada and England and is now servng a 45-year prison term for rape, molestation and distributing child pornography.
Patti is known in Sparta as a municipal chairman of the Sussex County Republican Committee — a position from which he resigned Friday — and in the county legal community as a criminal defense attorney. Among his clients have been a Vernon man accused of robbing five banks in Passaic County and Orange County, N.Y., and a Bayonne man involved in a bizarre baby formula shoplifting scheme. In 2003, he sued unsuccessfully to stop the Lake Mohawk Country Club from installing speed humps on the community’s roads.
He had been scheduled to appear Friday morning in state Superior Court in Newton for the baby formula client’s sentencing. The hearing was postponed.

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Link to above: http://www.njherald.com/news/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1107033375,60567,/

Link to police press release naming all in ring: http://www.njsp.org/news/pr012705.html#pdf

:wtf:

This is rape of a child! GODDAMN GOP!!!

:grr:

Everywhere. A 5 year old child, my god.

(And I wonder a little about all the shock and wonder.)

:grr:

of all the righteous, moral, upstanding members of the Republican party that have been busted for sex crimes since they established themselves as the party of "values". Then send it out to all the media and see if it gets any attention.
No wonder Bill O'Really is their spokesman.

Lala, please edit your article to four paragraphs.

its from 1/29

The paragraphs... I know it is a few days old, but it is not LISTED anywhere other than Randi Rhodes and the two links below. Sorry, just thought it should be seen. Shall I move it to another forum?


I fixed the paragraph length.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/city/denton/stories/020405dnmetshoot.725f3ca2.html


Teens arrested for air-pistol attack
Shots were fired outside a Denton County middle school Wednesday


Carrollton police arrested the 17-year-old son of Denton County's longtime district attorney and a district judge in connection with air-pistol shootings of three girls at a middle school, authorities said.

Police charged Creekview High School student Adam Paul Isaacks -- whose parents are District Attorney Bruce Isaacks and Denton County district judge Vicki Isaacks -- with three counts of injury to a child.

According to an affidavit, Mr. Isaacks shot a 12-year-old girl in the thigh with an air pistol about 5 p.m. Wednesday as Mr. Carrillo drove by Blalack Middle School in the 1700 block of East Peters Colony Road.

Mr. Isaacks was released Thursday after posting a $3,000 bond set by a colleague of his mother, state District Judge L. Dee Shipman. Though the shooting occurred in Denton County, having a district judge set bail is "unusual," though not improper, Sgt. Sponhour said. "Normally, our judge would set bonds."