NEW--George Nader hit with superseding indictment on charges of sex trafficking, child porn, obscenit

[MelissaB]

NEW—George Nader hit with superseding indictment on charges of sex trafficking, child porn, obscenity, @ErinBanco reports

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George Nader, Witness in Mueller Probe, Hit With New Charges of Sex Trafficking

The key cooperator faces additional child-porn charges in a new indictment to be unsealed Friday.

George Nader, who was a key witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, has been hit with new federal charges of child pornography, sex trafficking, and obscenity, according to a person familiar with the case.

The charges come on top of separate child-porn charges leveled by the same prosecutors last month. The new indictment is set to be unsealed Friday morning in the Eastern District of Virginia, according to the person.

The Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Nader’s attorneys declined to comment. Nader is expected to enter a plea on the charges this morning.

Nader, a 60-year-old Lebanese-American businessman with deep political and financial ties to the United Arab Emirates, was a key cooperator in Mueller’s probe of foreign influence in the 2016 election. Nader met several times with individuals associated with the Trump campaign throughout the election and into the early days of the administration. He spoke with officials and advisers on matters ranging from a pitch by a foreign firm for the campaign to use social-media manipulation to regime-change in Iran. (He met with Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign advisors about the plan, which included a proposal to use fake avatars to garner support for Trump, but Trump officials deny they ever considered it.)

More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-nader-witness-in-mueller-probe-hit-with-new-charges-of-sex-trafficking/

[MelissaB]

1. A little more:

He also helped broker a key meeting between Erik Prince, the former Blackwater CEO, and Kirill Dmitriev, the head of one of Russia’s sovereign wealth funds, in the Seychelles in January 2017. That meeting came under intense scrutiny by Mueller’s team and was described in its report as one of the ways the Russians tried to influence the incoming Trump administration.

Federal prosecutors in Virginia argued last month in court that Nader should be held in jail before trial, based in part on his prior criminal history. That history includes a 2003 conviction in the Czech Republic on charges of abusing minors, including a charge of transporting of a minor boy to the U.S. for sexual purposes. Federal prosecutors said Nader has had “hands-on contact with more than a dozen minor boys.” Nader’s lawyers called the U.S. government’s argument weak because he was later acquitted of the Czech sex-trafficking charge.

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Last month, prosecutors told a court that FBI agents found dozens of child-porn videos on one of Nader’s phones, with some depicting children as young as 3 years old.

[Pachamama]

2. Sounds like Nader was to minor boys what Epstein was to minor girls....

[Clash City Rocker]

3. Wow, this really hasn't been a good month for pedophiles. Good.

[mcar]

4. Only the best people

[Sanity Claws]

5. I wonder if Nader and Epstein were parts of the same larger criminal syndicate.

[Leghorn21]

6. Thank you, MelissaB!! I googled his name last week trying to see if he was still in jail, and could

find nothing - at any rate, this is !!!GREAT NEWS!!! although, let’s face it, keeping up with all these sex traffickers is exhausting - no joke

Justice is comin for y’all

Whassuppp, ms. Maxwell

[triron]

12. Hope Trump can join them.

[marble falls]

7. Pigs can't stay out of the mud. Bury him in prison.

[MontanaMama]

8. Nader is a pedophile and should be locked up.

These people can’t be rehabilitated and are a danger to society. I hear that pedophiles are not treated well in prison...this would not hurt my feelings a bit.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. is he rich and white enough for Barr to rescue?

Can he tell us what Kushner has been selling and to whom?

[oasis]

10. Hit him. Hit him hard on all counts. nt

[Leghorn21]

11. Hey, "George Nader" is trending nationally at #8 - GOOD

He was a 14-year-old boy. George Nader did not
"have sex with" him he raped him. Language matters
for survivors, perpetrator accountability, and access to justice.

UPDATE: George Nader has been charged with having sex
with a 14-year-old boy he allegedly transported to the U.S. from Europe

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Tons of people are making corrections to the Beast article’s language

Shit’s gettin real

FINALLY