Date: 09-20-2018

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Case Number: 1:18-cr-20522-CMA

Judge: Cecilia M. Altonaga

Court: United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida (Miami-Dade County)

Plaintiff's Attorney: Mona Sedky

Defendant's Attorney: Raymond D'Arsey Houlihan, III

Description: Miami, FL - Florida Man Pleads Guilty to Surreptitiously Producing and Distributing Pornographic Audio and Video Recordings of Himself Engaged in Sexual Activity with At Least 80

A Homestead, Florida man who was charged with surreptitiously producing and distributing pornographic audio and video recordings of himself engaging in sexual activity with multiple men, pleaded guilty on September 20, 2018 in federal court in Miami.

Bryan Deneumostier, 32, also known by the screen name “susanleon33326,” pleaded guilty to two counts of illegal interception of oral communications.

U.S. Attorney Ariana Fajardo Orshan for the Southern District of Florida, Assistant Attorney General Brian A. Benczkowski of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and Special Agent in Charge Mark Selby of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Miami Field Office, made the announcement today. Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga scheduled the sentencing hearing for Nov. 29. Deneumostier was arrested in July 2018 and has been held in custody since then.

According to the indictment to which Deneumostier pleaded guilty and to other facts he admitted in his plea agreement, Deneumostier assisted in the operation of a subscription-based pornography website. The site offered for streaming approximately 619 “hook up” videos that depicted sexual activity between Deneumostier and other men. The defendant had surreptitiously made audio and video recordings of the sexual encounters, without the victims’ knowledge or consent. He later sold the “hook up” videos to a third party located overseas and caused them to be posted onto the website. The indictment and plea agreement refer to three known victims whose identities are being withheld to protect their privacy. Deneumostier admitted that he recorded himself engaging in sexual activity with approximately 150 men that were featured on his website and that approximately 80 of those did not know that he was recording them.

The investigation was conducted by HSI. Assistant U.S. Attorney Cary Aronovitz of the Southern District of Florida and Senior Trial Attorney Mona Sedky of the Criminal Division’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section and are prosecuting the case.

Related court documents and information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida at www.flsd.uscourts.gov or on http://pacer.flsd.uscourts.gov.

Charges:

18:2511 Unlawful Recordings of Individuals
(1-2)
18:2257 and 2 Failure to Maintain Records of those Engaged in Commercial Sexual Acts
(3-5)

Outcome: 09/19/2018 21 PAPERLESS NOTICE OF HEARING as to Bryan Deneumostier: Change of Plea Hearing set for 9/20/2018 09:00 AM in Miami Division before Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga. (ps1) (Entered: 09/19/2018)
09/19/2018 Terminate Moot Deadlines and Hearings as to Bryan Deneumostier (ps1) (Entered: 09/19/2018)
09/19/2018 22 PAPERLESS Minute Entry - ENTERED IN WRONG CASE (ps1) Modified on 9/19/2018 (ps1). (Entered: 09/19/2018)
09/19/2018 23 Clerks Notice of Docket Correction re 22 Status Conference, set Hearing. Document Filed in Wrong Case; Document restricted and docket text modified. Document refiled in correct case. (ps1) (Entered: 09/19/2018)
09/19/2018 Set/Reset Hearings as to Bryan Deneumostier: Change of Plea Hearing set for 9/20/2018 09:00 AM in Miami Division before Judge Cecilia M. Altonaga. (ps1) (Entered: 09/19/2018)

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