Date: 02-16-2024

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United States of America v. Gregory Kurzajczyk

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Judge: Mae A. D’Agostino

Court: The United States Court for the Northern District of New York

Plaintiff's Attorney: The United States Court for

Assistant United States Attorney Michael Barnett prosecuted this case as a part of Project Safe Childhood.

Michael Barnett

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Albany, New York Criminal Defense lawyer represented the Defendant charged with Possessing Child Pornography and Supervised Release Violations.

Gregory Kurzajczyk, age 76, of East Durham, New York, was sentenced today to a total of 175 months in prison following trial convictions for possessing child pornography – crimes he committed while on federal supervised release.

United States Attorney Carla B. Freedman and Craig L. Tremaroli, Special Agent in Charge of the Albany Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), made the announcement.

Kurzajczyk was convicted of four counts of child pornography possession following a 3-day jury trial in October 2023. Kurzajczyk had prior federal convictions for receiving and distributing child pornography, and was sentenced in January 2017 to 72 months in prison and a life term of supervised release. Kurzajczyk was released from prison in October 2021 and returned home to Greene County under the supervision of the United States Probation Office.

The trial evidence showed that during a routine home visit on February 16, 2022, a United States Probation Officer saw an unauthorized laptop computer in plain view in Kurzajczyk’s bedroom, which led to the discovery of two more unauthorized laptops, and dozens of other unauthorized computer devices, many of them hidden under the covers of Kurzajczyk’s bed. Two laptops and two USB drives each contained a large amount of child pornography, including image and video files depicting the sexual abuse of small children.

United States District Judge Mae A. D’Agostino sentenced Kurzajczyk to a total of 175 months in prison – 151 months for the trial convictions, to run consecutively to a time-served term of 24 months for Kurzajczyk’s violation of his conditions of supervised release. Judge D’Agostino also imposed a 15-year term of post-imprisonment supervision, ordered forfeiture of the devices on which Kurzajczyk possessed child pornography, and ordered Kurzajczyk to pay $39,000 to victims whose images of sexual abuse Kurzajczyk possessed. Kurzajczyk will also be required to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.

The United States Probation Office for the Northern District of New York initiated this investigation, and the case was also investigated by the FBI Albany’s Child Exploitation Task Force, which includes members of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies, including the Colonie Police Department and the New York State Police. Assistant United States Attorney Michael Barnett prosecuted this case as a part of Project Safe Childhood.

Launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice, Project Safe Childhood is led by United States Attorney’s Offices and the Criminal Division’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS). Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit https://www.justice.gov/psc.

Outcome:

Defendant was found guilty and sentenced to 175 months in prison – 151 months for the trial convictions, to run consecutively to a time-served term of 24 months for Kurzajczyk’s violation of his conditions of supervised release.

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