Businessman who testified in Mueller probe indicted on child pornography charges
https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2019/07/19/george-nader-mueller-probe-child-pornography-1422642A wealthy Lebanese-American businessman and Middle East expert who was a witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s Trump-Russia investigation has been indicted on charges of importing child pornography and traveling with a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity.
George Nader, 60, entered a not guilty plea through his attorney Friday morning in federal court in Alexandria, Va., during a brief arraignment on the new indictment, which was returned July 3 and unsealed Friday.
Nader was involved in various meetings and discussions related to the Trump presidential transition that drew the attention of Mueller investigators, including a meeting that Erik Prince, the founder of private military contractor Blackwater, held with a Russian ally of President Vladimir Putin in the Seychelles in January 2017.
Robert Mueller used George Nader in the Trump-Russia investigation. He is in big trouble.
He has a lengthy rap sheet.
Nader received a six-month sentence and a $2,000 fine from a federal judge in Northern Virginia in 1991 on a felony charge of transporting sexually explicit materials in foreign commerce, according to the records POLITICO obtained last year.
U.S. District Court Judge Claude Hilton also imposed a $2,000 fine on Nader, the records show.
Details of the Virginia case have not been previously reported, but it was known that Nader faced a similar charge in federal court in Washington in 1985 involving allegations of importing from the Netherlands magazines depicting nude boys. A judge later dismissed those charges.
The Associated Press reported that Nader was convicted in the Czech Republic in 2002 of 10 cases of sexually abusing minors. He received a one-year prison sentence in that case, a court spokeswoman said, according to the news-wire service.
