FORMER AIDE TO FORMER INDIANA ATTORNEY GENERAL INDICTED ON CHILD PORN

PFMLIT CHILD PORNOGRAPHY, FLORIDA, General, GOOD POLICING CATCHES SEX OFFENDERS AND OTHERS, INTERNET OFFENDER CASES

Dan Foley, submitted an order for five videotapes for a total price of $245 on February 24th, 1998.  The videotapes he received through the mail show sex between minors.  According to a search warrant, postal agents in Des Moines, Iowa, set up an Internet sting, offering on a message board to sell incest tapes.  In April, a package notice was place in his post office box, he was followed home with the package of tapes and arrested.  He has been indicted by a federal grand jury on child pornography charges.  A background check revealed no criminal history.  He was released on bond.  If he is convicted, he faces up to 15 years in prison and/or a fine of $250,000.  Foley was press secretary to former Indiana attorney general Linley Pearson from 1980-1992.