In San Antonio today, 40-year-old former Homeland Security
Investigations agent Richard Nikolai Gratkowski was sentenced to 70 months in
federal prison on child pornography charges, announced U.S. Attorney John F.
Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge Christopher Combs, San Antonio Division.
In addition to the prison term, Senior U.S. District Judge
David A. Ezra ordered that Gratkowski pay $35,000 restitution to seven victims,
pay a $10,000 assessment under the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act and
be placed under supervised release for a period of ten years after completing
his prison term.
On January 4, 2018, federal authorities arrested
Gratkowski. The investigation showed
that Gratkowski, after purchasing access to multiple child pornography websites
using cryptocurrency, had received hundreds of videos of pre-pubescent children
engaged in a variety of sexual acts. On
December 19, 2018, Gratkowski pleaded guilty to the charges of receiving child
pornography and accessing with intent to view child pornography.
The FBI San Antonio’s Child Exploitation Human Trafficking
Task Force investigated this case along with special agents with the Department
of Homeland Security—Office of Inspector General. Assistant U.S. Attorney Tracy Thompson
prosecuted this case on behalf of the Government.
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