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Date: 09-02-2021
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Case Number: 3:20-cr-30151-SPM
Judge: Stephen P. McGlynn
Court: United States District Court for the District of Illinois (St. Clair County)
Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office
Defendant's Attorney:
Description: East St. Louis, IL: Knowingly receiving child sexual abuse material over the Internet criminal defense lawyer represented Defendant, Kory R. Schulein, age 37.
Defendant of Sparta, pleaded guilty to knowingly receiving child pornography over the internet. Schulein first came to the attention to law enforcement in 2018 during an FBI investigation of child pornography on the dark web. Agents were able to track his internet protocol address and executed a federal search warrant at his home. Schulein served as a moderator of a dark web site dedicated to child exploitation and had been an active participant on other sites. Schulein had posted 13,733 messages, many of which included links to child exploitation images and videos. Schulein also collected and stored over 9,000 images and videos of child sexual abuse material on an encrypted hard driveThe FBI’s Springfield Field Office investigated the case, with valuable assistance provided by the U.S. Marshals Service.
Trial Attorneys Jessica Urban and Alicia A. Bove of the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS) and Assistant U.S. Attorney Nathan D. Stump of the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of Illinois prosecuted the case.
Outcome: 09/01/2021 51 Minute Entry for proceedings held before Judge Stephen P. McGlynn:Sentencing held on 9/1/2021 for Kory R. Schulein (1), Count(s) 1. Defendant is sentenced to 151 months in the Bureau of Prisons. Upon release Defendant to serve 10 years of Supervised Release as to Count I. Defendant shall pay a special assessment of $100.00; and an assessment of $5,000.00 to the Child Pornography Victim Assistance Act. (Court Reporter Hannah Jagler.) (jsm2) (Entered: 09/01/2021)
09/01/2021 52 FULL WAIVER OF READING OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF SUPERVISION IN OPEN COURT AT SENTENCING by Kory R. Schulein. (jsm2) (Entered: 09/01/2021)
09/01/2021 54 JUDGMENT as to Kory R. Schulein. Signed by Judge Stephen P. McGlynn on 9/1/2021. (jsm2) (Entered: 09/01/2021)
09/01/2021 55 SEALED STATEMENT OF REASONS to 54 Judgment as to Kory R. Schulein. Signed by Judge Stephen P. McGlynn on 9/1/2021. (jsm2) (Entered: 09/01/2021)
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