Steven Fabrizio had pleaded responsible final summer time and was fired by the MPAA shortly after his 2019 arrest.
The previous basic counsel for the Movement Image Affiliation on Friday was sentenced to 12 months in jail for sexually abusing and blackmailing a girl he met via a courting website.
Steven Fabrizio was fired by the MPAA in August 2019 shortly after being arrested. On July 30, 2021 he pleaded responsible to blackmail and third-degree sexual abuse costs. D.C. Choose Marisa J. Demeo sentenced him to 30 months of incarceration — nonetheless, all however 12 months of the sentence can be suspended if he efficiently completes three years of supervised probation. Fabrizio can even should register as a intercourse offender for the ten years following his launch, based on a joint press launch from U.S. Lawyer Matthew M. Graves Metropolitan Police Division chief Robert J. Contee III.
Based on that press launch, Fabrizio and the girl “had consensual intercourse, and Fabrizio gave her $400 in money, as agreed upon beforehand.” Afterward, he tried to arrange one other assembly however she declined. Then Fabrizio despatched “a collection of texts to her, warning that the girl’s employer, mother and father, and landlord could be informed about their sex-for-cash association until she continued to undergo his calls for for additional sexual encounters.” Throughout a second encounter, Fabrizio sexually abused her and he or she contacted the MPD after receiving additional harassing texts.
On the time of Fabrizio’s arrest, an MPAA supply mentioned it had no prior data of the habits and described it as “stunning and insupportable to the Affiliation.”