New Jersey deputy attorney general Brian Richard Fitzgerald was arrested on felony charges after investigators traced a Discord account that shared illicit images to his home. Authorities say a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children flagged a Discord user who posted sexualized images of minors created with AI; digital forensics and subscriber records tied the account and associated IP addresses to Fitzgerald. Officers executed a search and recovered AI prompts and scripts used to generate child sexual abuse material, plus Discord chat logs in which the user - posting as “thegentlemanpervert_2160_07833” - admitted creating and sharing multiple illicit images. Officials say he used photos of real minors from social media as source material and then produced and disseminated the AI-generated images.
The deputy attorney general, who had served in that role since 2016 working on insurance-fraud prosecutions, now faces charges including possession of CSAM, dissemination of CSAM, and criminal use of a communication facility. Prosecutors emphasize that AI-generated CSAM is treated as CSAM under existing law and point to prior enforcement actions against individuals and police officers who made AI sexualized images. New Jersey prosecutors say they will pursue the case aggressively, stressing that officials entrusted with upholding the law will be held accountable.
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