Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The Homeland Security Department helped bring down an international child exploitation ring involving as many as 27,000 people victimizing at least 251 children online, the New York Daily News reports. DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson called the bust “one of the largest-known online child exploitation operations in history.” Authorities alleges that a Louisiana…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com At a time when Iran is not a very popular nation around the world, the feds have indicted an Australian man and his company on charges of conspiring to export sensitive military technology from the U.S. to Iran. Fed authorities in D.C. on Wednesday indicted David Levick, 50, an Australian national,…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com If there’s any place on earth that takes the illegal distribution of movies seriously, it’s the Los Angeles area. Derek Hawthorne, 21, is learning that the hard way. Hawthorne pleaded guilty Monday before U.S. District Judge R. Gary Klausner in Los Angeles to two felony counts of illegally uploading copyrighted works….
