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Date: 04-08-2022

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United States of America v. Eric Matthew Lipman

Case Number: 4:21-cr-00030-MW-MAF

Judge: Mark E. Walker

Court: United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida (Leon County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: United States Attorney’s Office

Defendant's Attorney: Richard Smith

Description: Tallahassee, Florida criminal defense lawyer represented defendant charged with conspiring to distribute, receive, and possess material constituting child pornography, and distributing material constituting child pornography.

Between February 8, 2021, and February 11, 2021, Eric Matthew Lipman, age 60, from Tallahassee, Florida, along with others, was a participant in Mega.NZ chat groups that distributed, received, possessed, and discussed child pornography images and videos. Mega.NZ was an Internet cloud storage and file hosting service based in New Zealand. Lipman conspired with the members of the chat groups to distribute, receive, and possess material constituting child pornography, and posted child pornography material within Mega.NZ chat groups for the benefit of other like-minded participants. The pornographic material that Lipman distributed, and that was found on Lipman’s electronic devices, involved prepubescent minors as well as minors under the age of 12.


“This child predator was part of a conspiracy to sexually exploit young children,” said HSI Tampa Special Agent in Charge John Condon. “Because of the investigative work of HSI and our law enforcement partners at the Leon County Sheriff’s Office, he will no longer be able to harm our most vulnerable.”

“LCSO applauds the work of investigators and the collaborative efforts by all entities involved in seeing justice carried out in this case,” said Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil. “We must continue to do our due diligence in protecting our most vulnerable and precious members of our community.”

This case was investigated by the Homeland Security Investigations and the Leon County Sheriff’s Office. Assistant United States Attorney Justin M. Keen prosecuted the case.

ACTIVITIES RE MATERIAL CONSTITUTING/CONTAINING CHILD PORNO
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Outcome: Defendant was sentenced to 72 months in prison, followed by 9 years of supervised release. He will also be required to register as a sex offender and will be subject to sex offender conditions.

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