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

[Mrs. Overall]

Source: The Daily Beast

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.)

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

[zooks]

1. The endless stream of sleaze is nauseating. The news is becoming unbearable. nt

[bdamomma]

3. watch that POS (tRump)

say he doesn't know him or had a few dealings with him. Sooner or later the head of the beast will fall off.

[cannabis_flower]

6. Wouldn't it be great....

If he started lying and was hit by lightning!!

[FiveGoodMen]

4. We have to elect people who care enough about this to do something.

[in2herbs]

2. It's hard to believe anything will come of this cuz they're federal charges making it under the

control of Barr and Nader has a close connection to Trump. Charges may have been filed but probably only to make Barr look non-prejudicial.

[Princess Turandot]

5. They released the indictment. He's now been charged with actually transporting a 14 year old boy...

from Europe to the US for the purposes of sex.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6207171-Nader-Indictment-New.html

(Transportation of a Minor With Intent To Engage in Criminal Sexual Activity)
THE GRAND JURY FURTHER CHARGES THAT:

In or about February 2000, GEORGE AREF NADER, knowingly transported a 14year old boy BOY who had not attained the age of 18 years, in interstate or foreign commerce, or in any commonwealth, territory or possession of the United States, with the intent that the boy engage in prostitution, or in any sexual activity for which any person can be charged with a criminal offense, or attempted to do so; to wit, NADER transported MINOR BOY 1 from Europe to WashingtonDulles International Airport, located in the Eastern District of Virginia, by means of commercial airplane, and NADER engaged in a sexual acts with MINOR BOY 1 after NADER transported MINOR BOY 1 from the Eastern District of Virginia to residence in Washington, DC.

[Yavin4]

7. For someone who began his campaign warning about Mexican rapists...

he sure does have a lot of non-Mexican rapists floating in his orbit.

[BigmanPigman]

8. Rachel is opening her show with this.

Should be interesting. I didn't know he sexually abused boys as well as girls. Rachel calls him "unsettling".

[ck4829]

9. K&R

[LTG]

10. No wat Trump lifts a finger for this guy.

As a key witness for Mueller he will now have zero credibility as a witness against anyone in the administration. It seems much more likely Barr pushes this to totally destroy this man, and his credibility as a federal witness as much as possible.