[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.
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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.
[YNet] - New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Friday criticized states that reopened their economies before getting the novel coronavirus under control, saying there was "undeniable, irrefutable evidence" those states made a mistake.
Cuomo told a briefing that states that followed guidance from the White House are now seeing a spike in cases, arguing that New York was able to get the virus under control by taking a scientific, rather than a political, approach.
"What's going on in this country is now frightening and revealing at the same time," Cuomo said. "I say it is time to wake up, America, and look at the undeniable facts." First tryout of the Democrat 2020 elections strategy?
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Must be nice to be interviewed once a week on CNN and have your brother wash your balls about how freakin' wonderful you are as a governor who killed thousands in old-age homes.
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Geeesh, between Killer Cuomo and Wilhelm. Nueva York sure has a couple of real winners. Oh, AOC, too (funny how she doesn't mention Joey Biden's sexual assault allegations anymore now, does she?)
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I believe it was Powerline that had the recent statistics form the CDC, as of 24 JUN 20. They have figured by looking at nationwide antibody studies that the virus itself is vastly more widespread than thought, as in by a factor of 10.
Further that the death rate for those with only Wuhan virus was 7% of the total. Not a typo, 7% as in s-e-v-e-n, or 8,540. The remaining 93% had minimally 2.5 additional conditions. All is not as has been portrayed.
[NYPOST] Mayor Comrade Bill de Blasio ...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him... is threatening to pink-slip 22,000 city employees if the feds or state don’t send him cash soon, but the schnook can’t even blackmail properly.
De Blasio trotted out the L-word, layoffs, to stoke fear of a catastrophe. Yet even after letting that many workers go, the city headcount would still be higher, by nearly 7,000, than when Hizzoner took office in 2014.
The growth came with no noticeable improvement in services, so why expect layoffs to make them worse? Some might see a trimming as a necessary step, aid or not. So much for his threat.
Yes, layoffs are painful (especially if you’re getting the ax). But de Blasio spent years recklessly bloating the workforce when the economy was strong and revenue flush; that left the city at risk during the inevitable downturn.
Indeed, despite the pandemic, his April budget called for an even larger workforce by 2022. If he imposes layoffs now, he’d deserve the blame — not DC.
Massive job cuts, of course, aren’t likely. City Council Speaker Corey Johnson says it’s possible to make ends meet without them — and for good reason: There are countless better ways to close the $1 billion gap de Blasio says he’s suddenly facing.
Budget watchdogs, for starters, note 22,000 layoffs would save far more than $1 billion. The Citizens Budget Commission says losing 9,000 jobs over two years via a real job freeze alone could do the trick.
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[Washington Free Beacon] Evelyn Farkas, the former Obama administration official and advocate for Burisma Holdings, lost her Democratic House primary for New York’s 17th district, coming in fourth place on Tuesday.
Although Farkas outraised most of her opponents, bringing in $1.2 million, her campaign platform that focused on combating Russian election influence did not appear to persuade many voters in the district.
While ballots are still coming in from district residents who voted by mail, as of Wednesday morning Farkas had received 9 percent of the vote.
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Must be something about the name... same as the dim-witted Skyrim character....
[PJ] The Oregon county that issued an order that exempts people of color from having to wear a mask if they were "worried about racial profiling and harassment due to wearing face coverings in public" has changed its mind about the policy.
Lincoln County officials were inundated with phone calls and emails angry about the decision. Twitter blew up over the issue. Within 24 hours, the county had heard enough and rescinded the exemption.
The policy was incredibly stupid in the first place.
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The directive, passed on June 16, went viral after a New York Post story with the headline: "Oregon county issues face mask order that exempts non-white people."
By Wednesday, as the story spread and a small office in Newport was bombarded with thousands of angry emails and phone calls, the county revised the directive and eliminated the exception, saying that it "does more harm than good."
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It was never going to survive an equal protection challenge anyway.
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#1 It was never going to survive an equal protection challenge anyway.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...former first lady, former secretary of state, former presidential candidate, Conqueror of Benghazi, Heroine of Tuzla, formerly described by her supporters as 
...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
