National Aeronautics and Space Adiristration ofnce of Inspector General Office of vestigations O-KE-15-0122-0 Novernber25, 2015 CASE CLOSING: ‘This investigation was initiated based on information received from the ‘Brevard County Sheriff's Office (BCSO) that they were inyestigating| for possession of aeccconaty BMMIE was coroye fons NASA co MMB otc: we Kemmecy Spece Center (KSC) ond parttime as : Ses veda Del pep eager directed a number of its] ito turn “ir Computers and subsequently, in late September or early October 2014, fretuined the Dell sec inside a laptop computer bag. a discovered an external harddrive inside on fhe pockets of te plop computer tan to: AB toed in with his Del compute Toe wn found he ive seers discovered a arge nur of ieges thowing cle n provocative [foroasically analyzed the head drive and found thousands of images of ee ee ae pomography. Jchecked the pictures against the Department of Homeland Security's ‘National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) database to determine if they. ‘were confirmed child pornographic images; however, they were unable to match the gir] in pictures to known victims in that database. The girl in the pictures remains unidentified. Also on the hard drive was a 216 page document authored and last modified by containing short stories, most of which graphically describe an adult male exposing his genitals and/or masturbating in front of young girls between 10 and 16 years old in various situations. Additionaily,f | found spreadsheets containing lists of various websites, usernames and passwords. Several of the usemames in the lists conts ane, ¢-mail address or portions of his name. Several of the websites in the lists were previously identified as being associated with child pornography during other MMI child porography investigations. BEBE also found namnerous videos on the bard drive depicting situations. Among the videos were chat sessions conducted between] Janda female, whose name, ."! appears on the video chat screen. A former| | for| has a REPORT OF INVESTIGATION "Yn order te protest the (detty ofthis person only ber inials are being used, WARNING ‘This Bocuments the property ofthe NASA Or of spector Gener anion FOR OFFICIAL USEONLY | toate your gency. Contents ay tbe dadosed to eny party under | vestigation nor say this smsreat be ditrbined outside the rceving aponcy thew he spate plorauthocaaton of he Assit Itspetor Geeta for Investigations, CoRSRICKTIONwoe i ere Je-mail (foun 3A owned juter) included several exchanges between ‘nd inc raced rom a Irew her and ineaced wih het wile she wae anor Seve menages asking for pictures off at various times between I and IM. (Agent's Na aston deo he woe ch I cre ies aNASA a described below). The video chet files found on the hard dv ‘computer bag are dated between February and September 2008 and during that time Ig would have been fj orfff years old. During the video chat sessions with. exposed his. genitals on Several occasions via a web camera. also sent emails to fama with attached stil pictures of himself naked. Additionally, daring @ series of video chats he made ‘sexually explicit staterments and asked sexually explicit questions, which were similar in theme to many ofthe stories found inthe 216 page document described above. lj atemps to interview [vere unsuccessful Allof the content on the hard drive was dated during the 2007 08 timeframe. {IMM presented eclined to initially noifying NASA Protective Services that they were investigating NASA Protective Services notified NASA OIG the following day; thus NASA OIG had no opportunity making him aware that he was under investigation. NASA to investigate prior to 1G conta after their "enock and talk” with at his residence and received the information above. When confronted by I initially staed the extemal harddrive was not his. After it was pointed out that the drive contained pictures of him and documents. containing his name he admitted owning the drive, but denied having any knowledge of the two. chia hie images and requested Lega! counsel solicited MI resisnaion tsa and be resigned NASA.O1G Investigation After receiving the information above from il. NASA. OIG conducted a workplace search of KSC office. NASA immediately suspended upon learning, he was under Hee eionsnd vcore tad tomen o M cee oes sane ‘Numerous computer medi devices were scied in te search, Several of these items wet issued tof 29 NASA, one of which was a Lexac 512 megabyte flash drive. Review of tis drive revealed 122 images of two prepubescent girls, approximately 8 to 12 years old. The pictures showed the girls provocatively posed in bikinis, short skirts, shorts, and/or high heels and display aS CLE 01 LATED, “FAP” a aown slang term apparently mimicking the found that is sometanes made when men masturbete. Metadata associated with those image files indicate most were saved to the Lexa ive in February 2013 and were last accessed in June 2013. TLASSIFICRTTO T WARNING ‘ls doses inh post fhe NASA Off of npc eel ed ito ororriciaL use ony | atresia Cie | nar may ti cooovent eeitted oxide toe receiving ages) nou te | Seat prior authraaon of ie Asan iapectr Gener fr nsigtcus(BREE NASA issued computer revealed several law enforcement training documents on the eomputer's hard drive, some of which pertain to the investigatiot of sexual crimes against children, Examples included a 160 page manual for law enforcement officers from the National Center For Missing & Exploited Children, titled, “Chitd Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis." ‘Also found were a 40 page investigator's guide (o interviewing children ticked, “Building Trust Finding the Truth, * and a law enforcement training bulletin titled, “An Introduction to Pedo Bear = Jeon of the 21" Century Sexual Predator.” There were documents pertaining to computer crime investigations, including a 137 page document titled, "Investigations Involving the Anernet and Computer Networks," a 74 page document titled, “Electronic Crime Scene “Investigation,” and a 299 page document titled “Searching and Seleing Computers and Obtaining 2 Reviews of Government records associated with revealed a file maintained by the NASA 2 KSC peng US. Governmet Security ‘Clearance. This file contained a seven page document summarizing noteworthy information from background investigations o [conducted fom fi to HIRE during the ie i084 From approximately gal and for part ofthis time worked ss | The document indicated thet during this for, among other things, showing too much interest in young girls. The document contained accounts from several of co-workers, one of om sad te flowing “Sie MID nas his ofc mata praticaly rey day WIRE stared he wanted a girlfriend borween the ages of 12-16. also stated he woul rave das 2g} nove 18 ears Asis Source a was joking, but later he received at least te separate phone calls at his residence where requested Source attempt to find hin a 14-year-old wakd/gilfiend.” Witnesses also described incidents indict MMM wes in possession ofa video tape depicting nude cilren and may bave rade improper advances to ia ‘Additionally, vious ‘wiesses described (MI as “having enetional problems aaa being “Irctional™ “abusive”, “immature” and “Jacking selfconrol”. One witness described I as being “highly emotional and quick to anger’. Adéitionelly, the report contains informston indicating may have harassed a rape victim and mishandled his is report was in the possession of NASA Protective Services during was hired, In face KSC, endorsed the report on November 12, 2002, stating: “For sensitive positions it is determined that the employment, rerention ia emplaymen, andar the granting of a security clearance tothe ‘above-captioned indivitwal (QUEM) 's clearly consistent with the inerests of national security. * ‘SeaSSRTCRTTON a FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | iasicyor apn Cres ny tbe co ony pry oe cee ‘erm tis ment beatae ois Be ening gers stent ae | pss pts uaa a be Asian pea ena f vesgs.Several other media devices were removed from KSC office, which could not be identified as Government property. Subsequently, search warrants were obtained through the Middle District of Florida, Orlando, and executed on each media storage device. A review of the material on the devices disclosed 135 images of provocatively posed prepubescent girls, approximately 8 to 16 years old on three di . found. Review of the hard drive found and the items taken from| NASA, office did not reveal links berween child erotica and] residence; re, probable caise fore search of MIM residence cole not be ateustd. by were ‘The facts and circumstances ofthis investigation were briefed to Assistant United States Attomey (AUSA) ERM, Middle District of Florida, Orlando. AUSA| declined to pursue charges agaist bas Alt child erotica images were found on: no child pom: ‘there is likewise no direct evidence that he krowinaly possessed the images, retired from NASA effective| 2015, All criminal and administrative Invest gative effort is complete and this mvestigation is closed, Prepared by: Special Agent, Kennedy Space Center p DISTR: File CLASSIRIERTION, TT | This docanet is he propery ofthe NASA Office of niece Genel ad 00 FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY soap ysaragensy Contents may nat be dsleed ay pry unr exon "ary his Gacament be evades the ein agen wit | speci par autores of te Asssant nspecar Gere for iene