Posted on 03/26/2014 12:34:24 PM PDT by servo1969
Reports that federal agents were looking for evidence of child pornography when they seized computers from the Elgin district office of former state Rep. Keith Farnham shocked local officials who said the lawmaker was well-liked and active in the community.
"I couldn't even fathom it. I was stunned," said former Elgin Mayor Ed Schock, adding that Farnham always worked on the city's behalf.
Farnham has not been accused of any crime.
Federal agents were searching for documents "pertaining to the possession, receipt or distribution of child pornography" as well as computer files, copies and negatives of child pornography or any documents that depicted minors "engaged in sexually explicit conduct," according to a search warrant released Friday.
Farnham, 66, a Navy veteran who ran a painting business in Elgin before running for office, announced his resignation Wednesday, saying he had been "battling serious health issues for a number of years." He won the Democratic primary the day before, running unopposed.
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Yeah, a burnt DVD or a bunch of kiddie-porn contacts would definitely seal the prosecutorial deal.
You’re right. BTW is that your daughter on your homepage?
Not me. I am well known for my modesty and propriety.
But the dumb women, they get the viruses from beauty product ads.
You’d need to speed it up some or break it up into 90, one minute vids. I suspect that you could do a series and come out with a one minute video every work day. 250 videos or just one a day until election time.
You’re male? Boy, I am losing my touch and all this time I thought you were the cutest, sassiest chick on FR. I am so sorry, man. Those electron flowers and digital chocolates were an accident. Forgive me, please.
I thought all the “Laz would hit it” were due to simple jealousy. You know, like a lady will get her dander up about another biddie. I am so 19th century. This interwebs is very confusing. I’m going to bed...alone!
I’m 7.5 yrs older than her. (Note the decimel point)
I went to high school with his(Fast Eddie’s) son Pete, seemed like a good family to me. More reason to believe that only the good guys that lose there nerve gets themselves pinched. Looks like he was set to serve a slap on the wrist 10 month sentence from this article but who knows how long he served of it, if at all.
Welcome to Chicago politics;)
I noted it. Must be all that clean living. ;-]
Great story. I thought he beat that rap. He’s worth tens of millions, at least back when I knew him. He owned hundreds of acres of tax properties in southwestern Michigan and had a hand in all kinds of government schemes, legal cases, and businesses.
That story is a great intro to Chicago politics. A casual note to secure a $750K loan collateralized against a building but given directly to a car dealer. What a story.
Every morning in Chicago, as in many cities around the world, Good and Evil wake up get dressed and go to battle. The forces are pretty well balance and one person can tip the scales on any given day.
Which Republican will run in Farnham’s district? No Republican is running there, yet.
Someone's intent, but not necessarily the owner of the computer. It's a perfect way to utterly destroy somebody, though. Get remote control, or just a few seconds of access to the machine... Plant some directories with a few hundred images... and they'll never prove their innocence. And this is a case people are assumed to be guilty and have to prove they are innocent, which they'll never be able to do.
This is 100% not true.
12+ years ago when newsgroups were much more popular than they are now I ran across this stuff.
It was some innocuous sounding thing like Hard to Find Recipes, Crocheting Images or something so benign I couldn’t understand why looking at the group name it had 1,000’s of entries. Once you opened up the group you found out why.
You won’t accidently run across it on a publicly accessible website, that’s for sure. It wouldn’t last an hour.
What scares me at this point is that, and don’t tell me this isn’t possible, is an iPod shuffle, the size of a quarter, could be filled with images and transferred to anyones computer left alone for 5 minutes. I suspect that if any government agency wanted someone framed, discredited or wiped off the map from a political/social point of view they could dump kiddie porn images/files on any of our computers.
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