7/19/19: George Nader’s legal problems grow. Already locked in the can, with bail denied, the former Trump adviser is charged with sex-trafficking of an underage minor, a 14-year-old boy.
As the Associated Press notes (and even Fox News picks up the story):
Nader’s name shows up more than 100 times
in [Special Counsel Robert] Mueller’s report. It details his efforts to serve
as liaison between a Russian banker close to Russian President Vladimir Putin
and members of President Donald Trump’s transition team.
Nader also served as an adviser to the United Arab Emirates, a close Saudi ally, and in April 2017 wired $2.5 million to a top Trump fundraiser, Elliott Broidy, through a company in Canada….The goal was to persuade the U.S. to take a hard line against Qatar, a longtime American ally but now an adversary of the UAE.
Diplomacy
for sale.
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Good pals! |
BLOGGER’S NOTE (1/16/22): Nader is eventually convicted of
sex-trafficking, and then convicted again, for illegally
funneling foreign money into U.S. political campaigns, first, Hillary Clinton,
second, to Donald J. Trump’s inauguration committee.
Broidy also gets indicted and pleads guilty in June 2020 – and then, lo and
behold, he doth receive a golden pardon from on high!
With only hours left in office, President Trump granted
Broidy an undeserved pardon, just before he slinked away to Mar-a-Lago in a sulk.
Broidy, by the way, had admitted to taking millions of dollars from foreign interests in return for his fine efforts to lobby the Department of Justice to, how shall we say it, turn a blind eye to criminality.
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