arrest of Jacob Schwartz, 29, computer programmer analyst

https://archive.is/N711O#selection-1131.1-1131.248

• is the president of the Manhattan Young Democrats

• works for the city Department of Design and Construction, where he heads the agency’s “Build It Back” Hurricane Sandy recovery and resiliency program, according to his online biography

• Detectives from the NYPD Computer Crimes division began investigating Schwartz about two months ago

• The Greenwich Village native is also the founder and executive director of climate education nonprofit Common Climate

• helped found the New Democratic Alliance

-worked for the Obama presidential campaign in 2012 as a field organizer in Lehigh Valley.

• surrendered to authorities on Thursday to face charges of possession of a sexual performance by a child and promoting a sexual performance by a child.

• In late March, Schwartz surrendered his laptop, where authorities found more than 3,000 images and 89 videos depicting young girls as young as 6 months old performing sex acts on adult men.

From this article:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/may/26/bill-de-blasio-staffer-arrested-on-child-pornograp/

• His father, a labor lawyer, served as New York counsel to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ failed 2016 presidential campaign

from this:

http://nypost.com/2017/05/26/de-blasio-staffer-arrested-for-child-pornography/

-Schwartz’s father — labor lawyer and Democratic insider Arthur Schwartz

-Jacob Schwartz is the president of the Manhattan Young Democrats and the downstate region vice president of the New York State Young Democrats.

-A photo posted last year on Twitter shows him posing with Robby Mook, then the campaign manager for Hillary Clinton’s disastrous presidential campaign.

• got involved in politics at a young age, helping his father campaign for Democratic district leader in Greenwich Village

• Father, Arthur Schwartz, also had his own brush with the law in 2015, when he was busted for removing hidden surveillance cameras trained on the front door of a $700-a-month, rent-stabilized apartment occupied by a 93-year-old client battling her landlord

-Jacob Schwartz attended Lehigh University,

--where he was a member of the “On Tap” a capella singing group, which later scored a gig on the Celebrity Infinity cruise ship. The all-male quartet scored high marks on the “Cruise Critic” website, where a member from Denmark wrote in 2013, “we really enjoyed the On Tap boys on our Infinity cruise to Alaska