NJ Legislator At Center Of Child Porn Investigation

From the Isn't It Ironic Dep’t of New Jersey Politics:

Democratic state Assemblyman Neil Cohen, sponsor of a bill that created a computer hotline to report child pornography and other internet crimes, is under investigation for, you guessed it: possessing child pornography. Cohen was reported by his colleagues, Democratic Senator Raymond Lesniak and Democratic Assemblyman Joseph Cryan.

Staffers first came upon the evidence on Cohen's work computer and informed Lesniak and Cryan who went to the Attorney General. Cohen’s computers were seized on Wednesday. He has not been charged.

"Both of us have known Neil Cohen for more than two decades," Lesniak and Cryan said in a prepared statement. "We know him as a compassionate individual, but if the allegations prove true, clearly there was a side to him neither of us knew."

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