Alexandria, Va. • A Lebanese-American businessman who worked to advance Saudi Arabia’s agenda to the Trump administration and who later provided grand jury testimony to special counsel Robert Mueller about his efforts to connect a Russian banker to members of Trump’s transition team has been arrested on charges of transporting a dozen images of child pornography and bestiality.
Nader’s name shows up more than 100 times in Mueller’s recently released report. The report describes efforts by and Kirill Dmitriev, a Russian banker close to President Vladimir Putin, to have Nader serve as a conduit between him and members of Trump’s transition team.