CHILD PORN SENTENCE HANDED DOWN

Newsday/Robert Kessler

Matthias von Wrede, a 34 year old owner of international real estate firm Engel and Volker’sin Southampton, was accused in March 2007 of possessing child pornography and was hit with federalcharges of keeping hundreds of images on his laptop computer of children having sex.  VonWrede pleaded not guilty to possessing and receiving child pornography.  He was held withoutbail.  The federal allegations mirror similar charges filed in Suffolk County on March 5, 2007,when investigators arrested him after finding the images on his laptop.  He was released fromSuffolk jail on