The general counsel for the Florida elections commission was arrested for possession of child porn Wednesday, according to The Tallahassee Democrat.

Courts records indicate that Eric M. Lipman was charged with 11 counts of possession of child pornography and was taken into custody at the Leon County Detention Facility, the Democrat reported.

The Leon County Sheriff's Office announced the arrest on Wednesday, but did not mention Lipman was general counsel at the state elections commission.

Lipman's arrest and charges came after the Sheriff's Office of Internet Crimes Against Children got a tip in February from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children about possible child porn downloaded by a local individual.

Detectives identified Lipman as the primary suspect after a six-week investigation.

The Sheriff's office along with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement and Homeland Security Investigations then executed a search warrant at his home.

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Lipman, 59, is a Boston native and began working for the Florida Elections Commission in 2001 as assistant general counsel. Lipman also served as senior attorney for the Florida Department of Children and Families, according to the newspaper.

According to Florida corporate filings, the Democrat reported, Lipman served as an officer for the Capital Soccer Association, a nonprofit soccer league for children ages 4 to 17.

Lipman was placed on pretrial release and has his first court appearance Thursday, according to the news source.

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The 21-year-old son of cyclist Lance Armstrong was charged with sexual assault of a minor last week over an incident that allegedly occurred in 2018.

The Austin Statesman reported Wednesday that Luke Armstrong was arrested and charged after his alleged victim, who was 16 at the time, detailed a nonconsensual sexual encounter at his father's house.

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According to the Statesman, the unnamed girl told police she called the younger Armstrong after becoming intoxicated at a party and asked for a ride home; she then fell asleep, and woke up at a home owned by Lance Armstrong where she says his son sexually assaulted her before driving her home without a word.

In a statement to the newspaper, an attorney for Armstrong characterized the encounter as a consensual sexual act between two high school students in a relationship.

"A complete review of the facts will confirm what has been alleged absolutely did not occur and a proper and thorough legal process will exonerate Luke," Randy Leavitt told the Statesman.

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"What occurred three years ago in high school was not a crime and not a sexual assault. What it was was a consensual relationship then and it continued to be consensual between the two young people with both ultimately going their separate ways. These charges should never have been filed and certainly not three years later," he continued.

In affidavits obtained by the Statesman, police say that the unnamed girl provided police with a recorded call from December in which Armstrong admits to having sex with the girl but claims that he remembered the encounter as consensual. The girl also said she told six people about the assault after it occurred, four of whom police said described the girl's account as describing a sexual assault, according to the affidavits.

If convicted of the second-degree felony of sexual assault of a child, Armstrong could face up to 20 years in prison.

As of February 28, 2021, the OIG had not closed 1,003 recommendations, which the OIG associated with the following statuses at that time: Resolved (867 recommendations), On Hold/Pending with OIG (134 recommendations), Response Not Yet Due (1 recommendation), and Unresolved (1 recommendation).

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An Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring by

OAG

07/28/2008

1

Unresolved

Clarify its policies regarding the use of political or ideological affiliations to select career attorney candidates for temporary details within the Department.

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A Review of the FBI's Use of Section 215 Orders for Business Records in 2012-2014

FBI

09/29/2016

1

Response Not Yet Due

Continue to pursue ways to make the business records process more efficient, particularly for applications related to cyber cases

The OIG believes that the FBI’s continued support and development of the source validation process, combined with the relative ease of access field supervisors now have to source information, will further the FBI’s efforts to ensure that the circumstances that allowed James Smith to evade management oversight and enabled Katrina Leung to compromise U.S. intelligence interests regarding China will not be repeated.

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