Jeff Rosato, a senior staffer for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA), has been fired after he was charged by authorities late last week with distributing and receiving child pornography.
Roll Call reports (subscription required):
He was arrested after he sent more than 600 images and movies of child pornography to an undercover FBI agent he believed was a 13-year-old boy, according to an FBI affidavit.The online chats occurred from Jan. 2 to Jan. 23 over Google Hello, a photo-sharing program that was shut down in June. To identify Rosato, the FBI subpoenaed Google and Comcast.
In a Nov. 7 search of Rosato’s Alexandria home, FBI agents found a computer with “approximately 200 images of child pornography and child erotica, and several movies containing child pornography and child erotica.” Many of the images showed prepubescent boys engaged in sexual acts, according to the affidavit.
Rosato, who had served as senior policy advisor and counsel on the Environment and Public Works Committee, which Boxer chairs, had worked for the California senator since 2005.