The general counsel for the Florida elections commission was arrested for possession of child porn Wednesday, according to The Tallahassee Democrat.
Courts records indicate that Eric M. Lipman was charged with 11 counts of possession of child pornography and was taken into custody at the Leon County Detention Facility, the Democrat reported.
The Leon County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest on Wednesday, but did not mention Lipman was general counsel at the state elections commission.
Lipman, 59, is a Boston native and began working for the Florida Elections Commission in 2001 as assistant general counsel. Lipman also served as senior attorney for the Florida Department of Children and Families, according to the newspaper.
According to Florida corporate filings, the Democrat reported, Lipman served as an officer for the Capital Soccer Association, a nonprofit soccer league for children ages 4 to 17.
[FAC COMMENT: It can be anyone… even a senior attorney for DCF, the agency charged with protecting children!]
I was just amazed when i read the story posted on THE HILL, the story posted pretty much just shared the facts. Little more. There are about 500 comments attached to the story. NOT ONE was positive and all were political or just hatred sharing, many based on sharing regurgitated lies. To me that was more enlightening than another SOB finds the system or the system finds them.
FWhat is the name of the attorney who specializes in Sting cases that was on the Dr. Phil show? Thank You so much.
FAC Legal, the sting lawyer on the FAC call was amazing— strongly recommend he be on the attorney referral page of the FAC site if he’s not there already (I, too, cannot remember his name).
1) Conviction charges. 2) Punishment. 3) The Registry. More than likely, he will be treated differently in some or all of these categories. I’d bet #3. Somehow, the same registry rules won’t apply to him (I.e. Epstein). Or maybe #1. The charges will be downgraded to non-registrable offense. Or maybe #2. Little to no jail time etc.
It seems he already has been treated preferentially. How many here charged with CP possession were released pretrial?
Veritas.
I was RORed. And I’m neither rich nor powerful.
Glad to hear guys. My experience was with the feds, who seem to really like pretrial confinement.
Ed C., I was prosecuted by the feds too. And I still got RORed. Not sure what happened in your case but on the day I self-surrendered there were five inherent guys hit with the same charge. Everyone got RORed if there were no prior convictions.
I was released on personal recognizance, but ordered to stay off the internet.
I wasn’t in for cp but my public pretender told me he refuses to ask for anything to do with bail. Would have been nice to have a chance to fight from the outside and still be a dad instead of staying inside.
Anonymous, you use Epstein as an example of the registry not applying to a person of influence. However, Epstein was registered in New York. He moved to another state (I believe Arizona) that did not require him to register. I’d do the exact same thing and so have others who are not influential any any way.
Epstein remains registered in Florida.
I vaguely recall reading a deceased RC is “eligible” for removal from the FL registry one year after death. Of course that means someone must come forth to request the removal. Perhaps nobody has bothered to speak up for the late Mr. Epstein. And since Ms. Maxwell is a little busy with other things right now, she probably won’t be the one anytime soon…
His ranch was in New Mexico. He was not required to register because his Florida conviction was not equivalent to a registerable offense in New Mexico.
It all depends upon the wording of the law and its interpretation by the courts. For example, there are two nearly identical federal statutes. One uses the phrase “one or more” and the other uses the word “any” to describe the child pornography. The former (18 USC 2252(a)(4)) allows only a single unit of prosecution, i.e. charge, whereas the latter (18 USC 2252A(a)(5)) allows multiple charges for the same stuff. Go figure!
Veritas.
FAC….Please shed light on the fact that Eric Lipman can hide his info
Here is a Quote from a Tallahassee News Reporter:
“Lipman’s photo and other information were withheld from the arrest report by Florida Statute 119.071(4) (d). Under the statute, current or former State Attorneys, Assistant State Attorneys, State Prosecutors, and Assistant State Prosecutors, active or former Law Enforcement Personnel, etc. may keep arrest information private.”
So, therefore, These IDIOTS can HIDE THEIR INFORMATION FROM THE PUBLIC?….SO THEY ARE GIVEN SPECIAL PRIVILEDGES?
WTF!
WHEN YOU GO TO THE LEON COUNTY JAIL WEBSITE THEIR IS NO RECORD OF ERIC LIPMAN…….
THIS IS COMPLETE BULLSHIT!
Eric Lipman’s arrest and charge are public. How else would you know about it?
They can only hide the information if they are not convicted. Once the court enters a conviction their information will be on the registry just like other former public officials on the registry.
That is BS for sure. Kind of like when you speak to the legislature you have to promise to tell the truth, but the elected officials never has to do that.
(Hopefully) It’s just like the Benny Mardones’ song where Benny sings, “It’s like having a dream where nobody has a heart!”
I hope you FEEL that down deep in your soul right now, Mr. Lipman, as you rot in jail!!
FEEL it! … FEEL it!!!! (Like a knife in your self-serving, sanctimonious ribs!)
I HOPE you do!!
Oh, and did I mention….??
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!! …. F You!!!
Looks like another guy Lauren Book, the self professed child safety expert, failed to notice. I’m starting to think maybe she’s not REALLY an expert at this.
Right there with ya. Her beloved registry failed again!!
Lauren Book is no more a child safety expert than she is a brain surgeon. Her only expertise is in using her victim status and father’s money as political hammers to to get her way. She is and always will be a clueless, spoiled brat. To be completely honest, I think that if an actual, cognizable thought ever entered her mind, her head would explode.
Her self-proclaimed status as a child safety advocate should have been (and was, in my mind) demolished by her stone silence in the wake of the Parkland HS shooting, in her own district no less. Such events usually have scumbag politicians racing to the mikes to claim outrage, but (apparently) she had to wait for Big Daddy Ron to tell her what her opinions were due to his being the registered lobbyist for the NRA in Florida.
I still find it a crying shame that the mainstream press didn’t pick up on that, nor did FAC. I’d presume that was a strategic position on FAC’s part, which I wholeheartedly disagree with.
I suspect the reason Book is looking to become FL’s CFO is twofold:
The Parkland victims got betrayed by Book and called her out publicly, so they’ll likely have an opponent lined up, and if there’s one group of folks that can out-victim Lauren Book, it is the Parkland shooting victims.
The CFO heads the Florida Department of Financial Services and is responsible for overseeing the state’s finances, collecting revenue, paying state bills, auditing state agencies, regulating cemeteries and funerals, and handling fires and arsons. In addition, the CFO has administrative oversight over the offices which handles banking and insurance regulation. The CFO is a member of the Cabinet is third (behind the lieutenant governor and attorney general, respectively) in the line of succession to the office of Governor of Florida. She can divert even more taxpayer dollars to her personal charity as CFO.
I bet Big Daddy Ron is salivating over the possibility that his airhead daughter could get that position. It pretty much gives him unfettered access to Florida’s checkbook.
These are the kinds of things I was always wondering about regarding the Books – what they’re doing quietly while screaming so loud about registrants.
Anyone and everyone can get pinched for CP. There is so much of it out there and in far too many cases it is our own government involved in the proliferation. Of all the horrors I never thought could happen to me, a conviction for possessing CP was on the top of the list…especially since the prosecutor never produced any evidence of actual minors.
One more case to show the registry has been completely useless todo what it was created for. As if we needed any more proof.
“Chris Latvala, a former GOP colleague in the Florida legislature, suggests that while there, Gaetz went too far. On Friday, Latvala revived a 2020 tweet in which he accused Gaetz of creating a ‘game where members of the FL House got ‘points’ for sleeping with aides, interns, lobbyists, and married legislators.'”
“The game was also described by two other Florida Republicans, who spoke on condition of anonymity to reveal what was a private matter. Gaetz has denied knowing about it.”
If this is true, these are the people who file and pass punitive, barbaric, unneeded bills each year that have turned the registry into an instrument of extreme punishment, while they frolic in their sexual misconduct.
https://www.fox61.com/article/news/politics/national-politics/gaetz-sex-probe-suddenly-threatens-a-speedy-washington-rise/507-bf82c6ca-6e92-4e0f-bd7d-e2fc06948ca9
What needs to be done is for people like Gaetz to acknowledge to there constituents that they have created a monster. The Books mostly are responsible for stirring up the public by throwing up sex in everyone’s face . Getting them all stirred up , turning everyone against every one else, looking to find dirt on them. Instead of working for the good of people it only causes strife and further problems. They can’t even take care of important business because there so infatuated with sex.
The original laws that were on the books for decades and even hundreds of years. Worked for a long time if they had been enforced.
The problem was they weren’t being enforced. They never needed new laws to begin with.
I wonder how many “staff members” they will find this time abusing children at border facilities? The last report was strangely silenced…
https://thepoliticalinsider.com/texas-launches-investigation-into-sexual-abuse-and-neglect-at-border-facility/?utm_campaign=TPI04092021AMWUC&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_medium=email&utm_content=cf9d6e99442b25f36257084d9aa8c35b&source=TPICI
All right, we all know that any illegal image even if it’s an image of one underage person in a group, rings up a charge so if you have one picture with five kids in it it’s five charges. So what kind of investigation did they conduct to find 11 pictures? I wonder if they were looking for something else and just stumbled on to stuff on his computer, possibly deleted. Wouldn’t be the first time that happened
“So what kind of investigation did they conduct to find 11 pictures?”
I’d bet that they sent it to him with the software they use in normal CP stings.
They always charge for just over 10 illegal images because anything over 10 bumps it from a third degree to a second degree felony. You go from five year for every image to 10 years each if the judge wants to run them consecutively. Gives them incredible plea bargaining power…Who ever said feds only give 5 years max for child porn is wrong, a while back.
Latest update said that one of the watchdog groups may have a learned law-enforcement because this guy may have SENT 19 files.