Federal prosecutors have indicted a convicted sex offender on charges of funnelling millions of dollars in illegal contributions to groups that backed Hilllary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
The 64-page indictment of Lebanese businessman George Nader was unsealed yesterday. Nader, a key witness in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, was convicted on child-porn charges in 1991, and was indicted again on similar charges in July.
That indictment includes a child-molestation charge and, in 2002, he was convicted of molesting boys in the Czech Republic.
The Latest Charges
The latest indictment, the Justice Department’s news release says, charges Nader and seven others with “conspiring to make and conceal conduit and excessive campaign contributions, and related offenses, during the U.S. presidential election in 2016 and thereafter.”
A federal grand jury indicted the men on November 7. Among them is Admad Khawaja, the chief executive officer of Allied Wallet, the online payment processing company he founded.
“The 53 count indictment charges Khawaja with two counts of conspiracy, three counts of making conduit contributions, three counts of causing excessive contributions, 13 counts of making false statements, 13 counts of causing false records to be filed, and one count of obstruction of a federal grand jury investigation,” the department reported.
Nader and the others, federal prosecutors allege, conspired with Khawaja on the contributions.
“From March 2016 through January 2017,” the indictment alleges, “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.”
That candidate was Hillary Clinton, and Nader and Khawaja, prosecutors allege, hoped to “gain influence with high-level political figures, including the candidate,” whom the men called “Big Lady.”
“The indictment … does not name Mrs. Clinton as the candidate who received the donations,” as the New York Times reported, but it does mention “a female candidate and donor records indicate Mr. Khawaja gave Democrats and a political action committee supporting Mrs. Clinton millions of dollars.”
Amazingly, despite that truth and a lead paragraph that ties the child molester to Clinton, the Times illustrated its story with a photo of Nader and President Trump.
Khawaja met with Trump in the Oval Office, the Times reported, and the indictment says the businessman sent $1 million to Trump’s inaugural committee.
Convicted Pervert
Nader’s records of sex crimes is a long one.
He skated on a child-porn charge in 1985 because a judge found that the search warrant for his home was invalid, Politico reported, and he was convicted on child-porn charges in Northern Virginia in 1991.
In 2003, the Associated Press reported, a court in the Czech Republic convicted him of molesting boys.
In July, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicted the pervert on two counts of possessing child porn and one count of molesting a boy in February 2000 after transporting him into the country through Dulles Airport.
Prosecutors filed the child-porn charges last year after federal agents working for Mueller stopped him at Dulles Airport and asked him about his contacts with foreign officials on behalf of President Trump, the Times and Politico reported.
Despite that record, he was a key witness in the Mueller probe of the Russia collusion hoax. Mueller, the Times reported, gave Nader partial immunity to testify.
Ties to Bush 41, Clinton
Nader isn’t just tied to Trump and Hillary Clinton, CNN reported when he testified for Mueller.
On the hostage negotiations for the first Bush administration, “Nader acted as a middle man between the US and Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, a Shiite cleric in Lebanon whose work inspired the founders of Hezbollah.”
That work helped lighten Nader’s sentence on the kiddie-porn charges in 1991, Politico reported.
And “during the Clinton administration,” CNN reported, “Nader was involved in another ‘shadow diplomatic effort,’ this time to attempt to strike an Israeli-Syrian peace deal.”
He worked alongside Ronald Lauder, a cosmetics heir who has been heavily involved in Jewish philanthropic causes, on the off-the-books effort. Nader was brought in, at least in part, because he spoke Arabic and had a relationship with Walid Muallem, at the time the Syrian ambassador to the United States who went on to become Syria’s foreign minister.
“He had stunningly authentic contacts,” a Middle East expert told CNN. “He had tremendous contacts in the Middle East in places that normal people — at least back then, and to this day — don’t go.”
Screenshot from 1998 video of George Nader: AP Images
R. Cort Kirkwood is a long-time contributor to The New American and a former newspaper editor.
