Latest OIG News- Sexual Predator Gets 90-year Sentence

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Newly released DHS Office of Inspector General press release is available on our website.    

 

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Week of 1.6.14

 

Press Release: Sexual Predator Gets 90-year Sentence

 

Michael J. McGowan, a former Federal Air Marshal and Border Patrol Agent, was sentenced to 90 years’ incarceration for three counts of Sexual Exploitation of Children. McGowan repeatedly sexually abused three boys over the course of four years between 2000 and 2004 and photographed the abuse. In 2005, McGowan was convicted in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York of one count of Attempting to Receive Child Pornography and sentenced to 20 years’ imprisonment. In 2008, while serving his sentence, McGowan sought from prison to have the photographs destroyed, which led to their discovery and his current prosecution for Sexual Exploitation of Children…

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