Key Mueller witness George Nader sentenced to 10 years in prison for child sex charges

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia ⁠— George Nader, a key witness in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation, was sentenced to 10 years in prison for bringing a teenage boy to the United States for sex and possessing child pornography. Nader, a 61-year-old Lebanese American lobbyist, pleaded guilty in January and received 10 years for each charge on Friday. Judge Leonie Brinkema of the Eastern District of Virginia said they could be served concurrently. The hearing took place in a socially-distanced federal courtroom with yellow X’s on the courtroom benches keeping the scattering of people in the audience spaced out from one another in the mostly empty room. Search warrants unsealed last year revealed the FBI found child pornography in Nader’s possession during the Russia investigation. The warrants alleged that at least a dozen videos containing child pornography were found on his phones — some involving animals and boys as young as 2 years old. Nader was also accused of taking a 14-year-old boy from the Czech Republic to his Washington, D.C., home in 2000 and using him for sex. Two years later, Czech authorities arrested Nader amid allegations that he had sex with underage boys in the Czech Republic between 1999 and 2002. He was convicted in May 2003 of molesting children, according to the search warrants. When law enforcement in the U.S. learned of the 14-year-old boy in 2002, Nader had left the country. Brinkema ruled Friday that Nader must now pay $150,000 in restitution to the victim, who called in to the proceedings and read a statement in Czech, which was repeated in English by a translator. Nader also pleaded guilty to a federal pornography charge in 1991 and was sentenced to six months in prison after he was found with two reels of videotape hidden in candy tins when he arrived at the Washington-Dulles International Airport. Both the Justice Department and Nader’s defense team had worked out a plea agreement in which Nader would be sentenced to 10 years for each charge, while allowing the sentences to be served at the same time.

Jay Prabhu, an assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia and the chief of its cybercrime unit, told the judge that Nader has “worked with presidents and princes” and with “the powerful and the infamous.” He talked briefly about Nader’s longtime experience in Middle Eastern politics, but said “that wasn’t his only passion” as he pointed to Nader’s history of possessing child pornography and of abusing underage teenagers. Prabhu said Nader was “persistent and dangerous” and that he had a history of “exploiting troubled teen boys.” The DOJ lawyer said to “make no mistake — Mr. Nader is a repeat, hands-on sexual offender.”

Jonathan Jeffress, Nader’s defense attorney, claimed the child pornography in question was “not sexual” and that it amounted to little more than “dirty jokes” sent to Nader on WhatsApp by his friends in the Middle East. Jeffress also said the judge should look at Nader “as he stands here today” and said his client’s chances of recidivism were “non-existent.”

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“Minor Victim 1” — who was 14 years old when Nader brought him from the Czech Republic to the United States, where the victim says Nader repeatedly sexually abused him — told the court through a translator that “it was hell for me” as he explained the physical and mental anguish Nader had caused him. Now an adult who is married with a wife and children, he said that the abuse by Nader still has an effect. “I hated myself and was ashamed of myself," he said, adding that Nader “has destroyed practically my entire life, which I am trying to put back together piece by piece.” The Lebanese American businessman met with officials and associates of President Trump’s circle and Russian and Middle Eastern officials in 2016 and 2017. He helped set up a January 2017 meeting in the Seychelles between Trump associate and Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian official with close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Nader was mentioned more than 100 times in Mueller’s 448-page report on the Russia investigation, and he was interviewed by the special counsel team multiple times, including about possible efforts from the United Arab Emirates to influence members of Trump's campaign. As reported by the Washington Examiner, records indicate Nader visited the White House at least 13 times to meet with Trump’s chief strategist at the time, Steve Bannon.

The FBI says it did not discover until nearly a month after his interviews that his devices contained child pornography. He was charged in April 2018 but wasn’t arrested until June 2019, upon his return to the U.S. Nader, balding with gray hair and glasses, was clad in a green-gray colored, short-sleeved prison shirt and matching pants on Friday. Sitting at a table by himself, his defense attorney sat at a different table. Other members of the defense team were fanned out in the courtroom benches typically used by reporters and observers. The convicted child sex offender spoke briefly near the end of the hearing. He said he was “sincerely and deeply sorry for the pain I have caused.” The judge said she was “satisfied” that 10 years behind bars “is sufficient but not greater than necessary” for Nader. She also imposed a life-term of supervised release, including requiring him to register as a sex offender when he is released and instructing him to stay away from minors, although she said he would be free to leave the country at the end of his term. She also imposed a $25,000 fine. Nader was separately indicted by prosecutors in late 2019 for his alleged role in a scheme to conceal large sums of illegal campaign contributions to help Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Nader is accused of conspiring with Ahmad “Andy” Khawaja, the Los Angeles-based 48-year-old chief executive of Allied Wallet, to conceal the source of more than $3.5 million in campaign contributions to political committees associated with a presidential candidate to gain influence during and after the 2016 campaign. Nader has pleaded not guilty in that case. Nader and Khawaja were charged in November as part of a 53-count indictment dealt by a federal grand jury in the District of Columbia.

Khawaja gave more than $4 million to Clinton's campaign and other Democrats during the 2016 cycle but later donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural committee after Clinton lost. As he shifted his focus to Republicans after the 2016 election, the Lebanese-born Khawaja met with Trump at a Manhattan fundraiser and got a photo with the president in the Oval Office. The Justice Department announced last year that Khawaja allegedly conspired with Nader to make $3.5 million in straw donations to boost a presidential candidate from March 2016 to January 2017. No candidate is mentioned by name, but the indictment and campaign finance records make it clear that the money was directed towards helping Clinton during the 2016 campaign. Records from the Federal Election Commission show Nader reported giving $595 in donations to Trump’s presidential campaign committee in 2016, as well as $100 to Ben Carson's campaign, but not to any Democrats that election cycle.

Nader was a business associate of Elliott Broidy, a top Republican fundraiser and deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee who resigned from that position in April 2018 after reports that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen negotiated a $1.6 million settlement in 2017 between Broidy and a former Playboy model who said Broidy impregnated her. Nader and Broidy worked to influence U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East prior to Broidy's resignation and Nader's arrest last summer.

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EPA chief urges defunding of NPR, 'sacred cow that needs to be slaughtered'

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler Friday bolstered the Trump administration’s bid to defund NPR after an NPR reporter editorialized against him and said it was “unsettling” to interview President Trump’s environment chief. “It reinforces in my mind that NPR should not be publicly financed. It’s just ridiculous,” Wheeler said after listening to how his 45-minute interview with Nora Saks of Montana Public Radio on Superfund cleanup efforts turned into an attack on the agency. “So many reporters have blurred the line between reporting and editorializing. And she was editorializing and I thought it was supposed to be an actual news piece. I didn’t realize it was just an editorial,” he said of her podcast, Richest Hill Episode 08: The Art Of The Superfund Deal. During the 48-minute podcast she criticized the “reign” of Trump and questioned agendas of his appointees. Wheeler, for example, is often referred to in media reports as a former coal industry lobbyist, but his prior work in Washington on environmental issues his first job was as director of EPA’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics is typically ignored.

After airing some of Wheeler’s quotes, Saks said, “Having a chance to speak directly with Administrator Wheeler was unsettling. He comes off as a decent enough guy who can’t wait to visit Glacier National Park and isn’t out to get the planet. His neighborly Midwestern demeanor temporarily distracted me from the fact that he’s now in charge of regulating the polluting industries he’s staunchly defended.” Wheeler was dumbfounded. “She interviewed me for 45 minutes, and she ran 12 minutes of the interview, apparently. And she said I made ‘unsubstantiated claims,’ but she didn’t say what the claims were. She said that it was ‘unsettling’ to talk to me. I don’t care if she was unsettled to talk to me or not. It was unsettling to talk to an NPR reporter,” said Wheeler. He also criticized the reporter for not telling her audience that a critic she included was a former EPA contractor dumped by the agency. “Wouldn’t you think if you were a real journalist, wouldn’t you have to disclose the fact that this person she’s interviewing has a bone to pick against the EPA for no longer being hired,” he said. Saks said, “We think our work speaks for itself and we encourage you to listen to the entire season of our podcast for context, which is all available here: https://buttepodcast.org/.” Several top administration officials have warred with NPR and PBS, agencies the president has tried but failed to defund. Trump has battled with PBS reporter Yamiche Alcindor, the latest recipient of a White House Correspondents’ Association award, and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has feuded with NPR reporter Mary Louise Kelly. Wheeler said that it’s time to again move to take away public funding for the outlets, which have strong support in liberal media and political worlds. “They certainly are a sacred cow that needs to be slaughtered,” said Wheeler.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/epa-chief-urges-defunding-of-npr-sacred-cow-that-needs-to-be-slaughtered

Biden: I'd use 'federal leverage' to require mask-wearing in public

Joe Biden said that he would use executive power to try to mandate the wearing of face masks in public if elected president. "I would insist that everybody in public be wearing that mask," Biden told local Pittsburgh CBS news station KDKA after giving an address on the Affordable Care Act in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. "Anyone to reopen, it would have to make sure that they walked into a business that had masks.” Asked whether Biden "federal leverage" to mandate mask-wearing, Biden said, "Yes, I would from an executive standpoint. Yes, I would." "I would do everything possible to make it required the people had to wear masks in public,” said the former vice president and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.

The pledge came as Biden listed actions he would take as president to combat the spread of the coronavirus. “I would go back to making sure that everybody had masks, that you had PPE lined up, making sure we stockpile all the things that we need and we don’t have now," Biden said. At least a dozen states and the District of Columbia require mask-wearing in public places, with varying levels of strictness and enforcement. Biden has donned a face covering in public since he started conducting small public outings and events. His first public appearance since the coronavirus lockdowns started was on Memorial Day, when he and his wife Jill Biden placed a wreath at Veteran's Memorial Park in Newcastle, Delaware.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/biden-id-use-federal-leverage-to-require-mask-wearing-in-public

>>9757153

Baker not to self nom..but this guy figures prominently in the lives of the Clintons..before during and after 2016 election, was also on Epstein's Island with Bill Clinton..

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Key Mueller witness George Nader sentenced to 10 years in prison for child sex charges

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Hmm, where?

>>9757221

Which means what exactly?

>>9757207

>in da dough yo

What is in the dough?

>>9757244

Really, you mean this post? Interesting but no details and yours clearly points to the wrong notable.. >>9755298 (pb)

The information lacking in most article titles is that he received 10 yrs for each charge to be served consecutively.

>>9757241

Any sauce for this anon.

>"Therefore, the U.S. citizens residing in one of the states of the union, are classified as property and franchises of the federal government as an "individual entity"", Wheeling Steel Corp. v. Fox, 298 U.S. 193, 80 L.Ed. 1143, 56 S.Ct. 773

When was this ruled?

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>>9757323

No salt anon, details matter, as the devil is always in them.