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Home Front: Politix

Mueller witness pleads guilty in illegal scheme to funnel UAE money to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign

2022-01-19

[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] George Nader, a key witness in former special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation and a convicted child sex predator, quietly pleaded guilty last year to involvement in an illegal campaign finance scheme funneling millions of dollars from the United Arab Emirates into Crooked Hillary Clinton
<q>Crooked Hillary</q> 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...
’s 2016 presidential campaign.Nader, a Lebanese American lobbyist, was sentenced to 10 years in prison in June 2020 after pleading guilty to bringing an underage teenage boy to the United States for sex and possessing child pornography. What was not publicly known until recently was that he also pleaded guilty to an illegal foreign donation scheme.

The Department of Justice revealed in a December sentencing memo that Nader had pleaded guilty to a single count on July 22, 2020. The court filing says Nader and Ahmad "Andy" Khawaja, a Los Angeles-based chief executive of Allied Wallet, "orchestrated a scheme to funnel over $3.5 million in foreign funds into the 2016 presidential election." The DOJ added that they "did so to gain direct access to unsuspecting high-level political figures to further their professional endeavors: in the defendant’s case, out of a desire to lobby on behalf and advance the interests of his client, the government of the United Arab Emirates; in Khawaja’s case, in the hopes of securing political appointment in the future."

Nader was indicted in December 2019 for what prosecutors said was his role in a scheme to conceal large sums of illegal campaign contributions to help Clinton in 2016. He was accused of conspiring with Khawaja to conceal the source of more than $3.5 million in campaign contributions to political committees associated with Clinton.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Protestors storm government agencies, ABL

2020-08-09

[EN.ANNAHAR] Protestors stormed a number of government agencies, while thousands gathered near parliament and clashed with police.

They entered the empty buildings of the Foreign Ministry and declared it the headquarters of their protest movement. Others fanned out to enter the Economy and Energy ministries, and some walked away with documents claiming they will reveal the extent of corruption that permeates the government. Some also entered the Environment Ministry. Meanwhile,
...back at the chili cook-off, Chuck reached for the green sauce...
dozens of protesters broke into the banking association headquarters.

Speaking from the Foreign Ministry, Retired General George Nader said parliament's police force fired live ammunition at protestors, injuring eight people.

The demonstrators are protesting over this week's massive explosion that devastated large parts of Beirut and killed more than 150 people.

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-Lurid Crime Tales-

Key witness in Mueller probe sentenced to 10 years in prison on child sex charges

2020-06-27

[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
<q>Crooked Hillary</q> Clinton

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Convicted Pedophile Used In Mueller Investigation Indicted For Funneling Millions In Illegal Contributions to Hillary

2019-12-06

[DAILYWIRE] George Nader, a convicted pedophile that special counsel Robert Mueller used in his Russia investigation, was indicted on Tuesday for allegedly concealing millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions to then-Democratic presidential candidate Crooked Hillary Clinton
<q>Crooked Hillary</q> 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...
"The Justice Department refers only to an unidentified 2016 presidential candidate, but campaign finance records make clear that the candidate was Clinton," Politico reported.

In a statement, the U.S. Department of Justice wrote:

According to the indictment, from March 2016 through January 2017, Khawaja conspired with Nader to conceal the source of more than $3.5 million in campaign contributions, directed to political committees associated with a candidate for President of the United States in the 2016 election. By design, these contributions appeared to be in the names of Khawaja, his wife, and his company. In reality, they allegedly were funded by Nader. Khawaja and Nader allegedly made these contributions in an effort to gain influence with high-level political figures, including the candidate. As Khawaja and Nader arranged these payments, Nader allegedly reported to an official from a foreign government about his efforts to gain influence.

"The indictment noted that political committees that received funding unwittingly submitted false disclosure reports and were presumably victims of the plot," The Washington Post reported. "Still, Clinton apparently attended numerous events, including small gatherings, with Nader, who on July 19, 2016, messaged the foreign official a photograph of him with Candidate 1’s spouse ‐ an apparent reference to Bill Clinton
...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is...
‐ at Khawaja’s home.”

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Home Front: Politix

Clinton Donors Charged in Massive Campaign-Finance Scheme

2019-12-04

[National Review] Eight people, including major Hillary Clinton donors and a witness in the Mueller investigation, have been charged in a massive campaign-finance scheme, the Justice Department announced on Tuesday.

The individuals conspired to “make and conceal conduit and excessive campaign contributions” valued around $3.5 million in the 2016 election campaign and beyond, according to the announcement. Although the indictment does not specifically name the recipient of the donations, it is clear that the contributions went to groups allied with Clinton’s presidential campaign.

One of those charged, George Nader, is a Lebanese American businessman who was a witness in the Mueller report. Nader was also caught in 2018 in possession of child pornography, but received partial immunity in exchange for testimony in the Mueller investigation. He faces between 15 to 40 years in prison if convicted on child-pornography charges.

Also indicted on campaign-finance charges was Ahmad “Andy” Khawaja, who hosted a fundraiser for Clinton in Los Angeles in 2016 and who conspired to conceal campaign donations from 2016 to 2018. Khawaja owns an online-payments company used by, among others, debt collectors, offshore gamblers, and pornographers. The company has made numerous campaign donations to both Democrats and Republicans.

Nader also gained access to the Trump administration, meeting with the president on several occasions. Nader has experience in international diplomacy, has served as a diplomatic conduit to the Middle East and Russia, and was an informal adviser to the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates.

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‘Evil’ babysitter gets 270 years for sexually abusing three sisters

2019-09-11

[NYPOST] An "evil" Oregon babysitter who sexually abused and tortured three sisters under his care has been sentenced to 270 years in prison after more than a decade of delays, federal prosecutors said.

Andrew Franklin Kowalczyk, 44, was sentenced Monday after the former Portland man was convicted on nine counts of producing child pornography in December by a jury that deliberated for just 20 minutes following his four-day trial, the US Attorney’s Office for the District of Oregon announced Monday.

Kowalczyk, who was originally indicted in February 2008, changed attorneys more than 12 times throughout the case and filed extensive motions to suppress evidence.

He also allegedly tried to have a fellow inmate kill Assistant US Attorney Scott Kerin.

"What this defendant did to these children is simply unexplainable," Kerin said in court on Monday, according to The Oregonian. "In terms of the sexual exploitation and abuse of children, this defendant is the worst this courthouse has ever seen."

Kowalczyk plied the girls ‐ an 8-year-old and a set of 2-year-old twins ‐ with toys, food, gifts and motel rooms in Portland, where the girls stayed with him in 2005 as their mother searched for an apartment or sold crack cocaine, the newspaper reports.

Kowalczyk, who had been a family friend, was arrested in 2007 on unrelated charges in Washington state. A subsequent search of his bags revealed roughly 650 images and videos of child porn, according to the newspaper.

Investigators published some of the non-pornographic images that appeared to be homemade in an attempt to track down the victims. The girls’ mother later told Sherlocks that she knew Kowalczyk as a friend of her brother whom she met in 2003 and that he had regular access to her children, federal prosecutors said.

The eldest of the three sisters said in court Monday that she’s still having nightmares and suffers from extreme guilt for not shielding her younger siblings from Kowalczyk’s sadistic abuse, according to The Oregonian.

"Andrew is evil itself," the woman, now 23, told a judge. "He deserves to rot in prison for the devilish things he’s done to me and my baby sisters."

The younger girls, meanwhile, do not remember the "horrific things" Kowalczyk did to them, but remain in state custody and struggle with anger toward their mother for leaving them in his care, their attorney said.

Kowalczyk, a 480-pound, wheelchair-bound man, flipped his middle finger at a judge as he was led out of court by four deputies, The Oregonian reports.

"You’re a corrupt piece of [expletive],’" Kowalczyk told the judge.

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Mueller Witness Indicted On Child Sex-Trafficking Charges

2019-07-21

[DAILYCALLER] George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman who was a key witness in the special counsel’s probe, was charged earlier in July with transporting a 14-year-old European boy to the U.S. for sex, according to an indictment unsealed Friday.

Nader was charged on three counts, including a charge for possessing child pornography and one for traveling with a minor to engage in illegal sexual activity. He is accused of transporting the teenage boy from Europe to his home in the U.S. in 2000.

The indictment, which was handed down July 3, comes on top of one unsealed in June against Nader, who was a longtime adviser to the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates. Nader played a key role in setting up a meeting in January 2017 between defense contractor Erik Prince and the head of Russia’s direct investment fund in the Seychelles.

Nader also met during the presidential transition period with Jared Kushner, and worked closely with Elliot Broidy, a former top Republican fundraiser who is reportedly under investigation for bribery and money laundering. In August 2016, Nader offered help to the Trump campaign during a meeting at Trump Tower with Donald Trump
...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States...
Jr. and Prince.

Nader, 60, was interviewed multiple times during the special counsel’s investigation, all but one time under a proffer agreement with prosecutors. Nader is mentioned approximately 120 times in the special counsel’s report, but there is no mention of his long history of alleged child sex crimes.

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Home Front: Politix

CNBC: Mueller witness George Nader charged with transporting boy for sex, child porn

2019-07-20

[APPLE/CNBC]

KEY POINTS
George Nader, who was a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, is charged in a new federal indictment with transporting a 14-year-old boy for sex, child pornography and carrying obscene materials.

Nader has been an advisor to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates.

Mueller’s report says Nader helped arrange a January 2017 meeting between Erik Prince and the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund, who reported directly to Vladimir Putin, as part of a purported Russian effort to build a link with President Donald Trump’s new administration.

George Nader, a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe, has been charged in a new federal indictment with transporting a 14-year-old boy for sex two decades ago, child pornography and carrying obscene materials into the United States.

The new charges against Nader, a 60-year-old Middle East power broker, were revealed Friday in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

A dual citizen of Lebanon and the United States, Nader is scheduled to go on trial on Sept. 30

Related: Politico - Businessman who testified in Mueller probe indicted on child pornography charges.

According to Politico, a near 30 year pattern. Strange no one noticed.

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Arabia

Report: UAE Paid Businessman to Spy on Trump Admin

2019-06-12

[AnNahar] A United Arab Emirates businessman linked to a probe of illegal donations to Donald Trump

...Perhaps no man has ever had as much fun being president of the US...
's political campaign was paid by his country's intelligence agency to spy on the US president's administration, The Intercept reported Monday.

Rashid al-Malik received tens of thousands of dollars a month for gleaning information on Trump administration policy toward the Middle East in 2017, the website said, citing a former US official and documents.

He reported back to the UAE's National Intelligence Service on topics of interest to the oil-producing Gulf state -- including US efforts to mediate a Gulf feud involving Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
-- as well as meetings between US officials and Soddy Arabia
...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face...
's powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
...Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia as of 2016....
, The Intercept said.

Late last year, The New York Times

...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
and Wall Street Journal reported that US federal prosecutors were investigating whether foreigners illegally funneled donations to Trump's inaugural committee and a pro-Trump fundraising super PAC.

Al-Malik, chairman of the investment firm Hayah Holdings, was interviewed by special counsel Robert Muller's office as part of the probe, according to the New York Times.

The Times cited people familiar with the inquiry as saying it focused on whether people from Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates used straw donors to make contributions in the hope of buying influence over US policy.

Given President Trump’s decisions around fracking, it seems a reasonable assumption that they did not succeed...

The report was denied by al-Malik's lawyer, who told The Intercept that his client was "not an intelligence operative."

"He has never been 'tasked' to deliver information about the inner workings of the Trump administration," Coffield wrote in an email to the website.

He has, however, "on numerous occasions, discussed various business ideas for UAE projects in the US," the lawyer was quoted as saying.

And have any of them come to fruition?

The Intercept report came after the Justice Department last week said George Nader, a well-connected Middle East fixer for the Trump campaign, was arrested for possessing child pornography.

Nader was a witness in special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian election meddling.

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Convicted sex offender George Nader, a key witness in Mueller's probe, charged with bringing child porn into US after found with 'explicit videos of little boys engaging in beastiality on his phone' at JFK Airport

2019-06-04

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

Lebanese-American businessman George Nader was arrested on Monday in New York and charged with bringing child pornography into the US for a second time

The 60-year-old was allegedly found in possession of a cell phone with 12 explicit videos when he flew into Washington, DC, in January 2018

An affidavit filed in federal court in Virginia describes the videos in vivid detail

They allegedly featured sexual acts with at least 12 young boys estimated to be between the ages of two and 14 years old

The charges were initially filed in April 2018 and were unsealed after his arrest

Nader pleaded guilty to an identical child porn charge in Virginia in 1991

He provided grand jury testimony in FBI Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian election meddling

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Government

Erik Prince: I ‘Cooperated' With Mueller

2018-06-20

[Daily Beast] Erik Prince, the founder of private security company Blackwater, has found himself embroiled in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of potential coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin.

During the campaign, Prince reportedly met at Trump Tower with Donald Trump Jr., operative George Nader, and social media specialist Joel Zamel to discuss a potential pro-Trump social media influence operation. He also met with Russian sovereign wealth fund manager Kirill Dmitriev during the transition period‐a meeting reportedly planned to set up a backchannel between the Trump administration and Russia. Those revelations raise questions about his relationship to the Trump administration‐questions Mueller is reportedly investigating.

Prince, a billionaire and the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, has also lobbied for a massive overhaul of the way the Afghanistan War is being prosecuted, pushing for increased reliance on private contractors to train Afghan troops to fight the Taliban. Prince was also recently the subject of an in-depth Washington Post report about the work his security company Frontier Services Group is doing in China. The report quoted critics saying Prince’s work runs counter to American interests in Asia.

This is Prince’s first on-the-record interview in months. It has been lightly edited for clarity.

There’s been a lot of reporting that Mueller’s interested in some of the meetings you had in the lead-up to the campaign and after the election and I was just wondering if you could tell me if you’ve heard from anyone on Mueller’s team?

I certainly understand the intense interest in the investigation and certainly some of the wild-eyed reporting in the media. I have spoken voluntarily to Congress and I also cooperated with the special counsel. I have plenty of opinions about the various investigations but there’s no question some people are taking it seriously and I think it’s best to keep my opinion on that to myself for now. All I will add is that much of the reporting about me in the media is inaccurate, and I am confident that when the investigators have finished their work, we will be able to put these distractions to the side.

As reported in Rantburg on 2018-06-01 ("Erik Prince's drive to build a private air force"), his current company, FSG (a private air force), has China not Russia as its main partner and investor! Mueller would be wise not to wander down the Russia Prince path. That is a dead end. The Rantburg article referenced this source article. Putin is involved with the Russian PMC's not the American or Chinese PMC's. To do otherwise would be a negative impact on Putin's internal political situation. Even more, why would Mueller want to get into the murky dangerous world of PMCs? If these organizations don't even respect the US military (think of the huge battle in Syria between US forces and a Russian PMC earlier this year that left lots of Russians dead), why would they respect the life of a US Special Prosecutor?

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is Prince's sister. Mueller's henchmen are not above going after family members of Trump or those of Trump administration personnel. They're desperately searching for anything they can find. Prince has long been on the outs with Foggy Bottom and the Foggy Bottom mother ship in Mclean.

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Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Nasrallah: US offered Hezbollah money to cede resistance

2018-04-10

[PRESSTV] His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah

The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
says the US offered money to Hezbollah to forgo resistance following the failure of several attempts to destroy the resistance movement.

Nasrallah said Sunday the United States, Israel and their regional allies have been conspiring against the resistance movement since the 2000 liberation of southern Leb from the Israeli occupation.

The Hezbollah chief made the remarks during an electoral rally in the town of Nabatiyeh, calling for a high turnout in Leb’s upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled to be held on May 6.

"Following the 2000 victory, the Israeli enemy, along with the US, had realized that Leb’s real power lies within its resistance, which has managed to force the Israeli occupation out of Leb without any condition," he said.

Former US Vice President Dick Cheney assigned the US-Lebanese journalist George Nader to offer Hezbollah anything at that time in return for stopping resistance, Nasrallah said.

"We were offered money and to be part of the authority in Leb on condition that we cede resistance," he said, noting that "My fault at that time was that I didn’t accept to take his paper, so that it would be a proof now."

Nasrallah stressed that the US offer was repeated after the withdrawal of Syrian troops from Leb in 2005. The Hezbollah chief said some European countries also made such offers.

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