A former White Plains businessman has apparently resumed his side gig — distributing child pornography — from a federal prison cell.
Fred Mastroianni and his sister, Doreen Mastroianni, were accused of cyberstalking and extortion in a criminal complaint unsealed on Dec 5 in White Plains federal court.
“I have 2 friends in the adult entertainment business,” Fred Mastroianni stated in a Nov. 3 email to his sister in which he asks her to forward the message to Victim-1. The message states: “One is the owner of [a company] which is the largest male porn management company in the country, and the other is the owner of [a] lounge in NYC.
“Both had a lot of connections and are helping me shop my library of 3,000 videos and 200,000++ photos. … I can sell them my ENTIRE library or I can have certain files left out. Or I don’t have to sell anything if someone that I would do anything for would HELP me.”
Mastroianni, 54, had operated several businesses, including Frederick Decor, Cleaning by Fredericks and The Greener Dry Cleaner. He and his sister, Doreen, 69, of Yorktown Heights, also sold real estate.
On August 15, Fred Mastroianni was sentenced to 35 years in prison for exploitation of a child and for possession and distribution of child sex abuse material.
He had begun sexually abusing a boy when he was 10. He broke the child’s “will and spirit to resist the abuse through a combination of threats and promises of gifts,” according to a statement released by prosecutors.
When the boy turned 18, Mastroianni began paying him to have sex with himself and other men.
He recorded many of the sexual activities and amassed a collection of child sex materials that he shared with others online, including videos of rape and incest.
The new charges are based on recorded prison phone calls and emails issued from another inmate’s account to which Mastroianni had gained access. He allegedly enlisted his sister to extort two people he had previously victimized by threatening to release sexually explicit images and videos.
The goal, according to the complaint, was to get the victims to contribute money to his prison commissary account, and to fund an insurance policy on Doreen’s life, for his benefit.
Mastroianni had surrendered his computers and electronic storage devices, in the original case. This past October, according to the new allegations, he urged his sister to get back cassettes that the government had seized, so that he could “give them to [Victim-2] in exchange for what I want.”
But Doreen already had a cache of pornography. She had told her son to copy Mastroianni’s entire computer to a Dropbox cloud-based storage account. Her son, according to a recorded phone conversation, “saw things [he] never wanted to see.”
Mastroianni alternately threatened and pleaded for help, in emails his sister forwarded to the victims. A Nov. 3 email to Victim-1 states, for instance, “I would never do anything to embarrass you or cause you discomfort on purpose unless I was pushed to the breaking point (which is where I currently am.)”
Then he allegedly threatened to sell his entire library, or leave out certain files.
Doreen messaged her brother on Nov. 16 that Victim-1 had rejected the proposal. “He called and said he was sorry that things were so bad that you would sink so low to write that,” she told her brother, “and he wishes you the best but he’s out.”
