John Stagliano Off the Hook On Federal Obscenity Charges
Porn distributor John “Buttman” Stagliano is in the clear after U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon threw out the charges against him last Friday. Stagliano was facing serious fines and jail time over the obscenity charges and for the distribution of porn across state lines.
AVN’s Mark Kernes explains the verdict:
As to Counts One and Two, he said, although the government had certainly proved that John Stagliano, Inc. was a corporation under California law, it had failed to prove that the company had had anything to do with shipping the DVDs Milk Nymphos and Storm Squirters 2: Target Practice to the FBI’s undercover mailbox in the District of Columbia, nor “us[ing] an express company or other common carrier” to do so, as charged in Counts Four and Five, nor “knowingly possess[ing] with intent to distribute obscene motion picture films”–the aforementioned pair–as charged in Count Six.
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