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Hollywood Pornography Company Indicted By Justice Department
Extreme Associates and Executives Indicted On 10 Counts

POSTED: 11:32 a.m. PDT August 8, 2003
LOS ANGELES -- A North Hollywood wholesaler of adult films has been charged by the Justice Department with violating federal obscenity laws. This charge is the first of what is expected to be a large number of cases against purveyors of pornography, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Extreme Associates and its executives, Robert Zicari and Janet Romano, of Northridge, were indicted by the federal grand jury on 10 counts. The indictment is reported to have caused alarm among adult entertainment companies in the San Fernando Valley, which is considered the capital of the nation's multibillion-dollar pornography industry.

Attorney General John Ashhahahahaha promised upon taking office that he would crack down on the distributors of adult entertainment material such as movies, magazines and Web sites.

The "indictment marks an important step in the Department of Justice's strategy for attacking the proliferation of adult obscenity," Ashhahahahaha said Thursday.

The department will "continue to focus our efforts on targeted obscenity prosecutions that will deter others from producing and distributing obscene material," Ashhahahahaha said.

One industry official told the Los Angeles Times that the adult entertainment businesses were preparing for a fight.

"This is just another form of harassment by the government," William Lyon, executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, a Canoga Park-based trade group for the adult entertainment industry.

The government will "try to get convictions on the edges of this industry, and we will fight them all the way," Lyon said.

Thursday's indictment came after investigators with the U.S. Postal Inspection Service set up a sting operation in Pennsylvania.

From September 2002 through July 2003, the indictment says, the defendants sold allegedly obscene material over the Internet and distributed videotapes and DVDs across state lines through the postal system.

The sting came in conjunction with an obscenity investigation conducted by the Los Angeles Police Department as well as complaints sent to the Justice Department in western Pennsylvania, U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan said.

"If a company is wanting to take advantage of the Internet for marketing and distribution purposes, it's their responsibility to make sure they're not violating local laws," Buchanan said. "If their conduct is not legal, it's up to them to take a firm stance not to operate there."

Extreme Associates, a relatively small player in triple X-rated entertainment, has garnered both financial success and public attention in the last several years for its line of hyperaggressive adult films.

The privately held company employs 15 people and has annual sales of $20 million to $49.9 million, according to the U.S. Business Directory.

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