Anthony Mark Bianchi, a North Wildwood multimillionaire sex tourist, graded young boys he raped, molested or attempted to seduce in Eastern Europe, according to a notebook seized by authorities.
Bianchi, 46, even marked the ones who got away, writing "no" in his notebook, after his translator and pimp, Ion Gusin, procured only the poorest children of Romania and Moldova, where Gusin is serving 20 years.
Yesterday, during a 4 1/2 hour sentencing in federal court, Bianchi received the federal equivalent of his own grade when he was sentenced to 25 years in prison for being a sexual predator of boys.
U.S. District Judge Bruce Kauffman said that he would request that Bianchi - once treated for impotence - serve the time in a facility that treats sexual offenders.
In August 2007, a jury found Bianchi guilty of traveling to Moldova and Romania for sex with boys. Of the 10 victims who came to testify in the U.S., two were raped, three were sexually assaulted, two were molested and two were contacted by phone to set up a sexual encounter.
"We want to assure people abroad that we will hold our citizens accountable for sex crimes abroad," said John Kelleghan, special agent-in-charge of Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
ICE was tipped off to Bianchi's sex activities before he reentered the United States in 2006.
Seeking a five-to-seven-year sentence, Bianchi's attorney, Pat Harris, of the celebrity Los Angeles law firm Geragos & Geragos, argued that looking at child pornography of toddlers is "far worse than what he did."
"Far worse than rape?" asked an incredulous Kauffman.
Harris argued that treatment of children in Moldova culture is different from that in the United States.
"Holding a 15-year-old down and performing anal rape is not acceptable in anybody's culture," newly named interim U.S. Attorney Michael Levy said outside the court.
"This was the worst case I've handled in terms of callousness and number of victims," said Levy.
The judge could have given Bianchi 30 years, the top of the sentencing range.
Kauffman also ordered Bianchi to a lifetime of supervised release, fined him $50,000 and ordered him to pay restitution of $47,950.20, which would go toward two years of therapy for his sex-abuse victims.
The judge also allowed investigators to look into Bianchi's finances, once tallied at $2.6 million, after he claimed that he was destitute.
The judge ruled that the Bureau of Prisons could place monitoring devices on computers he might use.
Once Bianchi is released, the judge ordered that he have one year of house arrest, wear an electronic monitoring device and maintain a phone accessible to the probation office.
The judge also placed other restrictions on him:
* No contact with anyone under 18 years-old;
* No volunteer work with minors;
* No access to the Internet;
* Provide authorities with his DNA;
* Register with the state sexual-offender registry.
In 2000, Bianchi received a three-year sentence in Russia for having illicit sex with boys age 10 to 13. The U.S. Embassy persuaded Russia to release him after three months due to prison conditions. *
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