GEORGE NADER
Miller said Nader had entree with an impressive range of people.
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“George has popped up under most every administration I”ve been associated with,” said Aaron David Miller, a longtime State Department Mideast negotiator now with the Woodrow Wilson Center. “I dealt with him from the Reagan administration on. … I consider George pretty reliable and pretty authentic, but he disappeared for long blocks of time, presumably in the region.”
Nader also attempted to arrange an Israel-Syria peace deal during the Clinton administration, the newspaper reported.
“At the beginning of the Obama era, Mr. Nader tried to parlay his ties to the Syrian government into access to senior members of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy team, while also seeking to advance business deals with former advisers to President George W. Bush,” according to the Times.
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1985
-Nader faced a charge in federal court in WASHINGTON in 1985 involving allegations of importing from the NETHERLANDS magazines depicting nude boys. A judge dismissed those charges after ruling that the search warrant issued for Nader’s home was invalid.
The 1985 case stemmed from a shipment Nader received of film and various magazines that authorities said depicted “pre and post pubescent boys” engaged in sexual acts. Some of the magazine titles listed in court papers are so blunt as to leave little doubt they involved underage children. A search warrant also produced evidence that Nader had “corresponded with several young boys and saved their letters,” prosecutors wrote.
The newly released records provide new details about the activity that brought Nader to the attention of federal prosecutors and about the highly secretive work that led him to get a relatively lenient sentence three decades ago: his role in negotiating for the release of U.S. hostages held in Lebanon.
1991
Pled guilty to a federal child pornography charge in 1991. Received a six-month sentence from a federal court in NORTHERN VIRGINIA in 1991 on a felony charge of transporting sexually explicit materials in foreign commerce U.S. District Court Judge Claude Hilton also imposed a $2,000 fine
The 1991 indictment came after customs inspectors at Dulles International Airport found two sexually explicit videotapes in Nader’s luggage as he arrived on a Lufthansa flight from Germany. A pediatrician consulted by the government said the boys in the videos were about 13 or 14 years old.
While the charges were pending, Nader made at least five trips overseas with court permission: four to Beirut and one to Moscow. Prosecutors also agreed with the defense to put the entire case under seal “due to the extremely sensitive nature of Mr. Nader’s work in the Middle East,” court records show.
Trips and delays in the case were due to Nader’s involvement in negotiations to free U.S. hostages being held in Lebanon.
Prison records indicate that Nader served his six-month sentence on the 1991 charge in a halfway house in Baltimore and completed it in June 1992. A video aired on C-SPAN in March 1992 shows him hosting a discussion in his capacity as editor of a newsletter called Middle East Insight.