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 bail of $250,000 bond.
Von Wrede pleaded guilty on January 11, 2008, in federal court to receiving childpornography.  He could face 50 to 20 years in prison.  He remains in federal custody inthe Nassau County Correctional Center in East Meadow.
Von Wrede was sentenced to 6 years in federal prison on June 27, 2008.
(New York)