A lobbyist who testified for then-special counsel Robert Mueller has pleaded guilty in a scheme to smuggle millions of dollars to Hillary Clinton’s campaign through the United Arab Emirates in 2016. According to the Washington Examiner, George Nader, a convicted child sex predator who testified for Mueller, quietly pleaded guilty last year to participating in an illegal campaign scheme that funneled money from the UAE to Clinton’s ultimately unsuccessful campaign against then-GOP nominee Donald Trump. After pleading guilty to transferring an underage adolescent boy to the United States for sex and possessing child pornography, Nader, a former lobbyist of Lebanese descent, was sentenced to ten years in prison in June 2020.
According to the publication, the Department of Justice said in a sentencing announcement that Nader had pled guilty to a single count on July 22, 2020. According to the court lawsuit, Nader and Ahmad “Andy” Khawaja, the CEO of Allied Wallet in Los Angeles, planned to invest more than $3.5 million in foreign funds in the 2016 presidential election. The DOJ went on to say that they did so in order to acquire access to unsuspecting high-level people in order to enhance their efforts. With Khawaja’s instance, in the expectation of getting a future governmental post. He was charged with conspiring with Khawaja to conceal the source of over $3.5 million in campaign contributions to Clinton-affiliated political organizations.
Khawaja gave more than $1 million to Clinton’s campaign in 2016. He donated $1 million to President Donald Trump’s inauguration committee after the 2016 election. Prosecutors said Nader agreed on the sentencing guidelines, which would result in a jail sentence ranging from 78 to 97 months. According to the Washington Examiner, the DOJ sought that the sentence run concurrently with the child sex crime term. In 2020, the criminal charges against Nader were filed in secret. He was accused with conspiring and falsifying records. Nader, who was named more than 100 times in Mueller’s 448-page report on “Russian conspiracy,” was also a bit of an operator, organizing a meeting between Blackwater founder Erik Prince and a Russian official. Trump’s Education Secretary, Betsy DeVos, is Prince’s brother.
Despite convicting Trump allies such as former campaign manager Paul Manafort and National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, Mueller’s team found no evidence that Trump’s 2016 campaign colluded with Russia to defeat Clinton, despite the fact that she and several other Democrats continue to make those false claims. According to public records, Nader met at least 13 times with then-chief Trump campaign adviser Steve Bannon. “The FBI says it did not discover that his devices included child pornography until nearly a month after his contacts with the bureau,” the Examiner adds.
