A key witness who provided grand jury testimony to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on June 3 on federal child pornography charges.
If convicted, Nader faces a “mandatory minimum of 15 years in prison and a maximum of 40 years,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Virginia.
The director of communications for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Joshua Stueve, didn’t respond by press time to a request from The Epoch Times for more details surrounding the investigation into Nader.
The businessman’s testimony came after he reportedly attended a December 2016 meeting at New York’s Trump Tower with presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner, then-chief strategist Steve Bannon, and Mohammed bin Zayed, crown prince of Abu Dhabi. His name appeared more than 100 times in Mueller’s report that was first released to the public with limited redactions in April.
Mueller titled a section of his report “George Nader and Erik Prince Arrange Seychelles Meeting with Dmitriev.” According to the report, Nader had tried to arrange a meeting between purported Trump associate Erik Prince and Russian businessman Kirill Dmitriev.
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According to a copy of the affidavit, the search warrant was administered “for a matter not involving child pornography.”
Later in February, a case agent reviewed the iPhones and “uncovered multiple files which appeared to contain child pornography.” The affidavit includes a description of 12 videos involving minors that were found on an iPhone 7, one of the three devices seized. One of the minors was just 3 years old.
In 1991, Nader had already pleaded guilty to an identical charge in Virginia, according to the Department of Justice.
Calls to attorneys who represented Nader in connection with his grand jury testimony weren’t immediately returned, The Associated Press reported.