Case of David Goldstein
(David Bart Goldstein, David B. Goldstein)
Former Attorney - Daneker, McIntire, Schumm, Prince, Goldstein, Manning and Widmann, Baltimore, MD
Pikesville, MD
Windsor Mill, MD
Gwynn Oak, MD
Hanover, PA
Former Law Student - University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Former Grad Student - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Former Student - Reed College, Portland, OR
Johnson City, Tennessee
Pikesville, MD
Windsor Mill, MD
Gwynn Oak, MD
Hanover, PA
Former Law Student - University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
Former Grad Student - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Former Student - Reed College, Portland, OR
Johnson City, Tennessee
Convicted on charges related to distribution and manufacturing of child pornography, along with charges related to the distribution of narcotics and possession of marijuana.
David Goldstein was originally arrested on November 3, 2010. At the time of his arrest he was an attorney and a partner in the law firm of Daneker, McIntire, Schumm, Prince, Goldstein, Manning and Widmann.
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Table of Contents:
2008
- David B. Goldstein - FindLaw (08/13/2008)
2010
- An undercover FBI agent in Newark, New Jersey saw that Goldstein was logged into a publicly available file-sharing program and was sharing approximately 1,476 files. The undercover agent downloaded 22 images and six videos from Goldstein’s shared files. (06/25/2010)
- Daneker, McIntire, Schumm, Prince, Goldstein, Manning &Widmann, P.C (11/20/2010)
2011
- Disbarment From Practicing Law in Maryland (05/03/2011)
- Two area attorneys charged in unrelated child pornography cases (03/31/2011)
- FBI: Attorney Pleads Guilty to Distributing Child Pornography (04/28/2011)
- Baltimore attorney enters guilty plea in child pornography case (04/28/2011)
- Baltimore lawyer pleads guilty to distributing child pornography (04/29/2011)
- Baltimore Attorney Gets 5 Years in Child Porn Case (07/29/2011)
- Md. Attorney gets 5 years in prison for distributing child pornography (07/29/2011)
- Maryland Sex Offender Registry (08/01/2011)
David B. Goldstein - FindLaw
FindLaw - August 13, 2008
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Daneker, McIntire, Schumm, Prince, Goldstein, Manning &Widmann, P.C
DANMCLaw.com - November 30, 2010
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Two area attorneys charged in unrelated child pornography cases
By Justin Fenton
Baltimore Sun - March 31, 2011
Two area attorneys were charged in federal court this week in unrelated child pornography cases, according to records.
David Bart Goldstein, a former partner with the firm of Daneker, McIntire, Schumm, Prince, Goldstein, Manning and Widmann, was charged in a criminal complaint with distributing an image of child pornography. An attorney with the firm said Goldstein resigned earlier in March for "personal reasons" and his information had been removed from the company website.
FBI: Attorney Pleads Guilty to Distributing Child Pornography
FBI - April 28, 2011
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Baltimore attorney enters guilty plea in child pornography case
ABC News - April 28, 2011
BALTIMORE - A Baltimore attorney pleaded guilty today to distributing child pornography.
According to U.S. States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod Rosenstein, 55-year-old David Bart Goldstein faces a minimum sentence of five years and a maximum of 20 years.
Goldstein's plea agreement includes information about how he was caught.
According to the plea, an undercover FBI agent in New Jersey saw that Goldstein had logged in to a publicly available file sharing program and shared almost 1,500 files.
The agent downloaded more than a dozen images and six videos that contained child pornography.
Goldstein will also have to register as a sex offender as part of the deal.
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International Business Times - April 29, 2011
David Bart Goldstein, a Baltimore lawyer, has pleaded guilty to distributing child pornography.
The guilty plea was announced by United States Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J. Rosenstein; Special Agent in Charge Richard A. McFeely of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III; and Baltimore City State's Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein.
According to Goldstein's plea agreement, on June 25, 2010, an undercover FBI agent in Newark, New Jersey, launched a publicly available file sharing program, and saw that Goldstein was logged in and was sharing approximately 1,476 files. The undercover agent downloaded 22 images and six videos from Goldstein's shared files. All of the downloaded images contained visual depictions of actual minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Further investigation revealed that in May 2010, Goldstein had paid $29.95 for access to the file sharing program.
As part of his plea agreement, Goldstein must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
Goldstein faces a minimum mandatory sentence of five years and a maximum of 20 years in prison, followed by up to lifetime of supervised release. U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander, has scheduled sentencing for July 27, 2011 at 11:00 a.m.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice. Led by United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state and local resources to better locate, apprehend and prosecute individuals who exploit children via the Internet, as well as to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.projectsafechildhood.gov. Details about Maryland's program are available at www.justice.gov/usao/md/Safe-Childhood/index.html.
United States Attorney Rod J. Rosenstein commended the FBI, Baltimore Police Department and Baltimore City State's Attorney's Office for their work in the investigation. Mr. Rosenstein thanked Assistant U.S. Attorneys Paul E. Budlow and Bonnie S. Greenberg, who prosecuted the case.
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Disbarment From Practicing Law in Maryland
Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland - May 2, 2011
Baltimore Attorney Gets 5 Years in Child Porn Case
Associated Press - July 29, 2011
Md. Attorney gets 5 years in prison for distributing child pornography
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Disbarment From Practicing Law in Maryland
Attorney Grievance Commission of Maryland - May 2, 2011
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Baltimore Attorney Gets 5 Years in Child Porn Case
Associated Press - July 29, 2011
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Md. Attorney gets 5 years in prison for distributing child pornography
By Richard Webster
Examiner - July 28, 2011
Baltimore) U.S. District Judge Ellen L. Hollander sentenced David Bart Goldstein, age 55, of Baltimore, Maryland, late yesterday to five years in prison followed by five years of supervised release for distributing child pornography. Judge Hollander also ordered that upon his release from prison, Goldstein must register as a sex offender in the place where he resides, where he is an employee, and where he is a student, under the Sex Offender Registration and Notification Act (SORNA).
On June 25, 2010, an undercover FBI agent in Newark, New Jersey saw that Goldstein was logged into a publicly available file-sharing program and was sharing approximately 1,476 files. The undercover agent downloaded 22 images and six videos from Goldstein’s shared files. All of the downloaded images contained visual depictions of actual minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct. Further investigation revealed that in May 2010, Goldstein had paid $29.95 for access to the file sharingprogram.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse launched in May 2006 by the Department of Justice.
Maryland Sex Offender Registry
August 1, 2011
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By Vicki Polin, MA, LCPC, NCC
The Awareness Center's Daily Newsletter - June 21, 2010
I have a cousin who is deaf who got involved with (the cult like group) Jews for Jesus when she was a teenager.
My cousin grew up in Oklahoma, and I grew up in Illinois. Because of the miles between us, I barely knew her as a child. As adults we developed a friendship do to the connection we made using the internet and AOL.
About 13 years ago I wanted to learn as much as I could about Judaism, to help my cousin.
During these early years of my own learning, I volunteered time on line as a counter-missionary in Jewish chat rooms on AOL and was also a JCOMM (in AOL's Jewish Community online). Doing this type of volunteer work is what eventually lead to me going to Neve Yerushalayim (a women's yeshiva in Jerusalem) and eventually lead me to creating The Awareness Center.
At one point a rabbi involved in the counter-missionary movement donated an Art Scroll Chumash to me to give to my cousin –– in hopes of helping her learn. At the time I was told that my cousin would most likely not take the book, without the approval of Martin (Moishe) Rosen –– who was a close friend of hers. Around that same time my cousin told me that Rosen was going to be in the Chicagoland area for a high school graduation of one of his granddaughters. She told me he wanted to meet me, and asked me if I would agree. So I did.
During the 2 1/2 hour meeting (at an upscale hotel in Skokie), Martin Rosen went on and on about how he started Jews for Jesus. He told me that it was originally an idea he had for a project for a marketing class he was taking back in the late 1950's. He told me that he had no idea that his idea would take off the way it did. When I asked him about the Chumash, he told me it was "treif", and did not want to encourage my cousin to read it. When I offered it to my cousin she took it.
As the months went on, my cousin began disclosing her own child abuse (over the years she's became public with her history, which can be found on the internet). As she began to disclose her past, I started to discontinue trying to persuade her to rethink her religious beliefs.
As survivors we all need to realize that we need to find things to help us heal. Though her views are different then mine, she deserves the right to choose what is helpful to her –– to make it through the day. She needed to find her own answers to make sense of the insanity she grew up with. I honor and respect my cousin for being able to survive and to grow into the beautiful person she has become.
What I do want to say is that it saddens me a great deal to know that one of the major things that pushed my cousin over the edge -- of not wanting to learn about "real" Judaism, came from the hands of a few Torah observant Jews in NYC. I say this because Martin Rosen was pretty smart. He set her up.
Martin Rosen knew that if his people would send her to various locations in both Manhattan and Brooklyn, that he could count on the fact that orthodox Jews would spit at her and use possible physical force against her, when they saw the literature she would handout regarding his organization. You have to understand, my cousin was in her late teens - early adulthood. She knew nothing about Judaism when she was sent by Jews for Jesus to New York to prothelytize. All she knew was how Rosen would demonize those from the Torah observant world. She was basically told that only "completed" Jews behaved civilly. Handing out his literature would prove his point. Besides being very young and deaf, my cousin is under five feet tall. Can you imagine how scared she must have been when her own people attacked her?
If only those who assaulted her back in the 1980's, knew her history, I'm sure they would have treated her differently, and perhaps she would have been more open minded in learning more about "real" Judaism.