NEW YORK, Aug. 5 (UPI) -- A former New York newspaper publisher faces up to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty to having child pornography and then trying to destroy the evidence.
Former Newsday publisher Robert Johnson, 60, a married father of two grown children, admitted he downloaded at least two child-pornography movie files onto his computers in 2004 while president of a New York financial printing firm a decade after leaving Newsday, the New York Post said.
When Johnson learned agents from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement were investigating the use of his desktop and laptop computers at Bowne & Co., he tried to use a program known as Evidence Eliminator to purge files from his computers, he admitted in U.S. District Court Friday, the newspaper reported.
Johnson, who was also a member of the state Board of Regents, which overseas the New York's education system, faces up to 10 years on the possession charge and 20 years on the destruction charge when he is sentenced Oct. 27.
