George Aref Nader (Arabic: جورج نادر, born May 15, 1959) is a Lebanese-American consultant, lobbyist, political adviser, and repeat sex offender.
In January 2018, special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators questioned Nader in connection to suspicions that the UAE had been involved with President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
[18] Nader attended a December 2016 meeting in New York between the United Arab Emirates officials and president-elect Donald Trump's associates Jared Kushner, Michael Flynn, and Steve Bannon.
[13] Working with Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy in 2017, Nader funded a conference criticizing Qatar that was hosted by the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
[19] At the time Nader and Broidy were pushing the White House to remove Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, whom the Saudis and Emiratis saw as insufficiently tough on Iran and Qatar.
[10] In January 2018, Nader was served a grand jury subpoena,[20] and special counsel Robert Mueller's investigators questioned him to elicit if the UAE had tried to influence members of Trump's campaign.
[5] The prosecutors alleged that, using banking industry executive Andy Khawaja as a front to obscure the source, Nader sent over $3.5 million to organizations supporting Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign for president, in an attempt to cultivate ties with the candidate.
A 1985 charge of receiving films and magazines from the Netherlands depicting pre- and post-pubescent boys engaged in sexual acts was dismissed due to an invalid search warrant.
[9] Nader reached a plea deal with prosecutors in January 2020: he pleaded guilty to charges of possession of child pornography and transportation of a minor,[29] and in June 2020, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison.