I hope this has legs and that it tarnishes his version of things, but I feel this issue has been so normalized that people won't care. And the ones that do will dismiss it as political payback of some kind. But it is important for us to know since it pretty well confirms everything we've been preaching about.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/06/george-nader-arrested-on-child-pornography-charges.html
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In the grand web of the Mueller investigation, Lebanese-American businessman George Nader enters at a key point off the coast of East Africa. An adviser to Emirati crown prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Nader reportedly brokered a meeting in the Seychelles between a Russian surrogate close to Putin and Blackwater founder Erik Prince, who has denied that he represented the Trump administration in any capacity.
According to Nader’s testimony in the Mueller report, that claim is dubious at best: Prince once told lawmakers he didn’t “fly there to meet any Russian guy,” but Nader told the special counsel he informed Prince that Russia was “looking to build a link with the incoming Trump administration.” The businessman, long considered a liaison between Washington and Middle Eastern officials, was a major source of information for the special counsel: The redacted Mueller report released in April refers to Nader in almost four dozen footnotes.
Nader provided testimony on the alleged attempt to establish a back channel between Trump and Moscow in exchange for immunity on any related charges. But on Monday, Nader was arrested on child-pornography charges in New York when he arrived at JFK airport. Justice Department officials state that Nader was originally charged in January 2018, when he arrived in Washington, D.C., from Dubai with a phone containing pictures of minors engaging in sexual conduct.
An affidavit unsealed on Monday asserts that a search warrant approved for a “matter unrelated to child pornography” allowed federal agents to search items on Nader. Upon his arrival in D.C. in January 2018, the FBI interviewed him on “a matter unrelated to child pornography,” after which Nader was told of the warrant. Three of his phones were seized, and an agent found “multiple files” of child pornography, at which point a second search warrant was issued to search for similar files. According to the affidavit, 12 sexually explicit videos of minors were found on Nader’s phones. If convicted, the 60-year-old faces a minimum sentence of 15 years and a maximum of 40 years.
This is not a new legal issue for Nader: The businessman has faced charges of child pornography or underage sexual abuse every decade since the 1980s. In 1991, he served a six-month sentence after pleading guilty to the same charge after he flew from Germany to D.C. with two sexually explicit videotapes of 13- or 14-year-old boys. In 1985, he faced a similar charge for importing from the Netherlands magazines with depictions of naked children, a charge that was dismissed after a judge ruled the search warrant for Nader’s home was invalid. In 2003, he was convicted in the Czech Republic of sexually abusing 10 boys between 1999 and 2002, for which he served one year in prison.
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carmencita ago
Not surprising. Mueller was responsible for having the Franklin Case scuttled. I posted it quite a while but can't find it anymore. Scrubbed. Birds of a feather. If find it, I will post it.
theooeht ago
Really?
He's like a wet works cleanup guy. Everywhere there's a crime, he's there with the bleach bit.
carmencita ago
There was so much stuff on him. Zero Hedge
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-01/its-all-fraud-deceptive-edits-found-mueller-report?utm_source=DurdenDispatch&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=jun-03
theooeht ago
All this helps so much.
Thank you for posting. It will help a lot of people to get this out there.
carmencita ago
I hope so. He is another one that really has been flying under the radar. The whole Mueller Investigation was and is a Fiasco. He needs to be thrown in jail.
theooeht ago
Agree.
But the Linda Collins-Smith case has me wondering. I mean, if Sessions really was doing all that investigation ... and appointed Huber who has done an massive amount of work, could it be that Mueller really is working with Trump? It would be crazy, but why would she go on a Youtube channel that believed that?
I'll have to think this through again.
carmencita ago
With all that Mueller has done wrong, all his shady profitable deals and coverups, I doubt he is trying to do any good for anyone else but himself. Even if he has decided to turn over a new leaf for just this time, well, his past speaks volumes of his character. Unless of course he has been blackmailed.
theooeht ago
Oh, I hear you. I really do. I'm on the same page ... or was.
But I thought Sessions was a waste. I couldn't imagine where anyone would think he'd done anything, and KERPOW! Out of the blue, I find those links and the current Clinton Foundation investigation HINGED ON HIM! Without him, this would be an undergoing investigation. That's all I'm trying to say. Is that I had no intention of changing my mind about Sessions and look what happened? And if Mueller were working with Trump, he had better be convincing that he isn't! Otherwise, he'd probably end up just like Collins-Smith and Schaefer. And the dems did hinge their hopes on himj that he failed to deliver.
So I hear you, I understand, and I thought Mueller was scum. I might still decide to stick with that, but right now? I don't know what to think. I honestly don't.