- There’s one more porn scandal in Washington, DC.
- An FEC worker was caught storing 125 gigabytes of porn on his government-issued laptop computer.
- A few of these pictures had been even deemed “doubtlessly illegal.” The worker has since resigned.
An worker of the Federal Election Fee resigned final yr after being caught storing a quite great amount of pornography on government-issued units.
In line with a little-noticed report launched final week by the Workplace of the Inspector Normal on the FEC, investigators started wanting into the matter in January 2022 after high workers flagged a number of movies of a nude individual on a shared drive.
Altogether, the ensuing investigation dug up the next:
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5 video clips of a “nude feminine performing varied sexually suggestive acts” on the shared drive.
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22 recordsdata containing “inappropriate materials” on a laptop computer issued by the company in 2021.
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687 pornographic movies on a laptop computer issued by the company in 2017.
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8,166 sexually specific or suggestive pictures on the 2017 laptop computer.
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Grownup tourism guides and prostitution maps for Costa Rica, Italy, Mexico, Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Investigators mentioned {that a} complete of 125 gigabytes of “doubtlessly inappropriate materials” had been found on the 2017 laptop computer through a forensic evaluation — regardless of the worker denying its existence.
The worker admitted to importing the photographs and movies from his private cellphone to the shared drive and the 2021 laptop computer, which was issued throughout an agency-wide migration that yr.
The report additionally steered that the worker “used his 2017 laptop computer completely for inappropriate and unofficial functions after he acquired his 2021 laptop computer.”
Investigators additionally mentioned they discovered “doubtlessly illegal” sexually specific pictures and referred the matter to exterior legislation enforcement authorities, who in the end closed the case because of inadequate proof.
The worker — whose identification was not disclosed — resigned on June 30, 2022, and the investigation in the end decided that he had violated company insurance policies.
It is an uncommon scandal to rock the FEC, an in any other case low-profile federal company tasked with implementing federal marketing campaign finance legal guidelines and sustaining public knowledge on political contributions.
However the launch of the report comes on the heels of two scandals that rocked Capitol Hill in current weeks, together with a Democratic staffer allegedly filming himself having intercourse in a Senate committee room earlier this month and the revelation {that a} Republican staffer allegedly filmed intercourse acts in a Home workplace in 2022.
