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2020-06-27 -Lurid Crime Tales-
Key witness in Mueller probe sentenced to 10 years in prison on child sex charges
[WASHINGTONTIMES] A key witness in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation was sentenced to 10 years in prison Friday for bringing a teenage boy to the United States for sex and possessing child pornography.

George Nader, a lobbyist whose name appears more than 100 times in Mr. Mueller’s report on Russian election interference, pleaded guilty in January to both charges. He was sentenced to 10 years on each charge, but a federal judge said the sentences could be served concurrently.

Search warrants unsealed last year revealed the FBI discovered at least a dozen child pornography videos on the phone of Nader, 61. Some of the images involved animals and boys as young as 2 years old.

Nader was also accused of bringing a 14-year-old boy from the Czech Republic to his D.C. home in 2000, and using him for sex. In 2003, Czech authorities convicted Nader of molesting underage boys between 1999 and 2002.

When U.S. authorities learned of the 14-year-old Czech boy, Nader fled the country.

In addition to the prison sentence, Nader was also ordered to pay $150,000 in restitution to the Czech boy. That boy called into Nader’s sentencing hearing which was held in an Alexandria, Virginia, federal court and his statement was translated into English by a translator.

This is not the first time Nader had pleaded guilty to a federal pornography charge. In 1991, he was sentenced to six months in prison after two reels of videotape hidden in candy tins were discovered in his luggage when he arrived at a D.C. airport.

Nader met with U.S. officials and close associates of President Trump along with Russian and Middle Eastern officials in 2016 and 2017. He arranged a January 2017 meeting in Seychelles between Blackwater founder Erik Prince, a Trump associate, and a Russian official with close ties to Vladimir Putin
...President-for-Life of Russia. He gets along well with other presidents for life. He is credited with bringing political stability and re-establishing something like the rule of law, which occasionally results in somebody dropping dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substance. Under Putin, a new group of business magnates controlling significant swathes of Russia's economy has emerged, all of whom have close personal ties to him. The old bunch, without close personal ties to Putin, are in jail or in exile or dead from poisoning by polonium or other interesting substances...
Mr. Mueller’s team questioned Nader about alleged attempts by the United Arab Emirates to influence members of Trump’s campaign.

Nader was separately indicted by prosecutors in late 2019 for allegedly conspiring to conceal illegal campaign donations to the campaign of Crooked Hillary Clinton
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as the smartest woman in the world, usually described by the rest of us as The Thing That Wouldn't Go Away. Politix is not one of her talents, but it's something she keeps trying to do...
ahead of the 2016 election.

Prosecutors say Nader and Ahmad "Andy" Khawaja, a Los Angeles-based executive, schemed to conceal more than $3.5 million in contributions from political committees to gain influence.

A 53-count indictment unsealed was unsealed in November. Nader has pleaded not guilty
"Wudn't me."
in the case.
Posted by Fred 2020-06-27 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top

#1 "wretched hive of scum and villainy"
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-06-27 07:42||   2020-06-27 07:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Hmmm...nice rap sheet and only sentenced to ten years. F'in vermin. Let's hope he survives each & every day of those ten years.
Posted by Clem 2020-06-27 08:00||   2020-06-27 08:00|| Front Page Top

#3 No Clem, each and every day of those 10 yrs. minus 1.
Posted by AlanC 2020-06-27 08:17||   2020-06-27 08:17|| Front Page Top

#4 /\ Well put, AlanC.
Posted by Clem 2020-06-27 08:20||   2020-06-27 08:20|| Front Page Top

#5 Under the special "protection" of his cell mate Bubba. I heard the prison pop does not react well to pedophiles.
Posted by Warthog 2020-06-27 08:39||   2020-06-27 08:39|| Front Page Top

#6 They are considered a shiv-worthy cohort.
Posted by Alaska Paul 2020-06-27 13:59||   2020-06-27 13:59|| Front Page Top

#7 This witness was symptomatic of the Mueller $40 mil boondoggle, a part of Obamagate, the attempt to take down a duly elected POTUS. A stain on American politics.
Posted by JohnQC 2020-06-27 19:38||   2020-06-27 19:38|| Front Page Top

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