SAN JOSE — A San Jose man who labored for a number of California cities all through a prolonged profession within the public sector has been sentenced to 42 months in federal jail for possessing little one porn, court docket information present.
Gregory Borboa, 62, pleaded responsible final April to a depend of possessing little one pornography and was sentenced Dec. 15 by U.S. District Choose Edward Davila, court docket information present. Prosecutors say that in August 2019 authorities recovered greater than 1,600 photos and 39 movies containing little one pornography and sexual abuse materials from Borboa’s dwelling.
The investigation started with a tip about suspicious exercise on Borboa’s Kik messenger account, resulting in a search warrant that allowed federal brokers with Homeland Safety Investigations to grab his telephone and laptop. The information seized together with depictions of “horrific exploitation of minors – some as younger as infants and toddlers,” prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo.
Assistant public defender Dejan Gantar, who's representing Borboa, wrote in a sentencing memo that Borboa had a commendable document of public service, beginning with a stint within the U.S. Military the place he was promoted to sergeant, adopted by work in danger administration for the cities of Stockton and Manhattan Seaside, and as a human assets director for Kings County. The information website Silicon Valley Voice has reported that Borboa was the HR director for Santa Clara on the time of his arrest.
“Over the course of his profession, Mr. Borboa’s extremely specialised abilities, experience, and dedication to public service helped save California taxpayers tens of millions of dollars,” Gantar wrote, including later that due to his arrest, “Mr. Borboa misplaced his good standing in his neighborhood, his profession was abruptly ended, and with it any prospects of comparable future employment. So too, Mr. Borboa’s offense has resulted in appreciable stigma that he'll bear for the remainder of his life.”
Borboa has till March 2023 to report back to the Bureau of Prisons to start his sentence. He has been out of custody since his arrest final 12 months.