No charges were ever filed by South Dakota authorities against T. Denny Sanford, who has donated nearly $1 billion to San Diego institutions
Investigators in South Dakota found three dozen images of child pornography in 2019 in email accounts connected to billionaire philanthropist T. Denny Sanford, according to search warrant affidavits made public Thursday which detail the early stages of a probe that ultimately resulted in no charges being filed.
No charges were ever filed, and the South Dakota Attorney General’s Office said in May 2022 that there were “no prosecutable offenses” under state law and closed the probe there. The documents show that in August 2019 the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children notified South Dakota authorities of an AOL account that had images of child pornography and child erotica. There were 36 total images, with three unique images repeated several times depicting naked girls appearing to be between the ages of 8 and 15 years old.
To further verify the connection to Sanford, the agent found other emails that included his driver’s license photo, as well as a June 11, 2019, letter from the Dalai Lama thanking Sanford for one of his many philanthropic acts — a $100 million contribution to the UC San Diego T. Denny Sanford Institute for Empathy and Compassion.
In January 2022 lawyers for Sanford said in a court filing that Sanford’s email accounts had been hacked, triggering the investigation. At the time, his lawyer was Marty Jackley, who in November was elected attorney general of the state.
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