Man serving 19 years in prison for having child porn in Jefferson County gets extra time for perjury

pWATERTOWN — A Geneva man serving a nearly 19-year federal prison sentence for transporting child pornography through Jefferson County in 2009 has been sentenced to an additional 1½ years in prison for lying about his finances while seeking a court-appointed attorney to defend him in the matter./ppJoseph V. Jenkins, 46, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court, Syracuse, after being found guilty at trial April 1 of perjury. Prosecutors said the conviction stemmed from an October 2011 court appearance in which Mr. Jenkins completed a financial affidavit seeking a court-appointed attorney at no cost to him./ppIn the application, which was completed under penalty of perjury, Mr. Jenkins failed to disclose his ownership of investments and bank accounts worth over $200,000 and concealed his ownership of boats and recreational vehicles. He was assigned a lawyer paid for by the court and used the attorney’s services for about a year before prosecutors learned of his assets. In addition to the extra time in prison, he was ordered to reimburse the government $8,049 in attorneys’ fees./ppMr. Jenkins was sentenced in federal court in November 2014 to 225 months in prison and fined $40,000 after being found guilty at trial in February 2014 of transportation of child pornography and possession of child pornography. He also was ordered to pay $3,000 restitution to each of the four victims whom authorities identified, for a total of $12,000. He also was ordered to undergo 25 years of supervised release after his prison term is served. /ppAccording to court documents, Mr. Jenkins was trying to enter Canada from the United States on May 24, 2009, after passing over the Thousand Islands Bridge and encountering Canada Border Services agents at Lansdowne, Ontario. He was directed to a secondary inspection, during which agents found a laptop computer on his vehicle’s back seat. Agents also recovered thumb drives containing pornographic videos involving children. /ppMr. Jenkins was charged by Canadian authorities with possessing child pornography, but he never appeared for trial. A bench warrant was issued for his arrest by the Ontario Court of Justice, and agents with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security took over the case after a referral from Ontario Provincial Police, under the theory Mr. Jenkins had possessed and transported the child pornography in Jefferson County before entering Canada. /p