The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services kept its acting cyber security director on the government payroll for an astonishing eight months while he was in federal custody with child pornography charges pending against him, MailOnline has learned.
Timothy DeFoggi was convicted Tuesday of engaging in a child exploitation enterprise, conspiring to advertise and distribute child pornography, and accessing a computer with the intent to view child pornography. He will be sentenced in November.
A federal grand jury indicted him on March 20, 2013. Eight months of pretrial motions followed before a trial date was set; court records show he was in federal custody by April 9 of last year [Read Full Article]