{"id":2766,"date":"2025-07-29T17:46:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2025-07-29T17:46:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T17:46:38","slug":"kash-patel-pam-bondi-announce-chilling-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/?p=2766","title":{"rendered":"Kash Patel, Pam Bondi Announce Chilling Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Justice Dept. Shuts Down Major Child Exploitation Networks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Justice Department and FBI have dismantled four dark web platforms hosting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) through&nbsp;<strong>Operation Grayskull<\/strong>, resulting in 18 convictions and severe prison sentences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One key figure,&nbsp;<strong>Thomas Katsampes<\/strong>, received over 20 years in prison for distributing CSAM and acting as a moderator. He had \u201cactively promoted and distributed CSAM\u2014including material involving prepubescent children,\u201d according to DOJ records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese offenders thought that they could act without consequences, but they were wrong,\u201d said Acting Assistant Attorney General Matthew R. Galeotti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The sites were among the most \u201c<strong>egregious<\/strong>\u201d ever found, with graphic content, encrypted communication, and over 120,000 users. FBI Director Kash Patel said, \u201c<strong>You cannot hide behind anonymity to harm children.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In Florida alone,&nbsp;<strong>eight men<\/strong>&nbsp;received sentences of up to life in prison. Arrests were also made in several countries. \u201c<strong>We will relentlessly pursue and prosecute anyone<\/strong>,\u201d said U.S. Attorney Hayden P. O\u2019Byrne.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Justice Dept. Shuts Down Major Child Exploitation Networks The Justice Department and FBI have dismantled four dark web platforms hosting child sexual abuse material (CSAM) through&nbsp;Operation Grayskull, resulting in 18 convictions and severe prison sentences. One key figure,&nbsp;Thomas Katsampes, received over 20 years in prison for distributing CSAM and acting as a moderator. He had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2768,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2766\/revisions\/2768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horizonvibe.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}