Lebanese-American businessman, lobbyist and political fixer; founder/publisher of Middle East Insight magazine, adviser to UAE Crown Prince Mohamed bin Zayed, and consultant to Blackwater founder Erik Prince. A central figure in the Mueller investigation into foreign influence on the 2016 U.S. election, he met Donald Trump Jr., Erik Prince and Joel Zamel at Trump Tower (Aug 2016) and attended the January 2017 Seychelles meeting, testifying under immunity. He surfaces in the EFTA corpus through Jeffrey Epstein's own materials: Epstein's attorney Kathy Ruemmler represented Nader in connection with the Mueller probe, and Epstein tracked Nader's June 2019 child-pornography arrest in his iMessages.
Key Findings
- EFTA01681865: Epstein's financial records note that Kathy Ruemmler, Epstein's attorney and President Obama's former White House Counsel, then a partner at Latham & Watkins, 'has represented George Nader in connection with the Mueller probe.' The note appears alongside a $53,750 wire referencing Ruemmler, placing Nader inside Epstein's own legal circle.
- EFTA01617920: Epstein retained a June 2019 Bloomberg report headlined 'Mueller Witness George Nader Faces New Child Pornography Charges' among his materials.
- HOUSE OVERSIGHT 027626 (Estate 7th production iMessages): Epstein (jeeitunes@gmail.com) shared the CNN story on Nader's June 3, 2019 child-pornography arrest, commenting 'Not cool.' The same thread's March 28, 2019 line, Epstein: 'Your "boy George" won't be happy' - has been read as referring to Nader (a key Mueller witness whose lawyer, Ruemmler, is named earlier in the thread), but the corpus does not identify 'boy George' by surname, so the equation is inference, not proof.
- Convicted child sex offender across three jurisdictions: 1991 (child pornography from Germany, six months), 2003 Prague (sexual abuse of ten boys, one year), and a January 2020 U.S. guilty plea to transporting a 14-year-old for sexual activity and possessing child pornography (10 years, reduced to 5 for Mueller cooperation; released Feb 2025). (Biographical, external, not established by EFTA corpus.)
- As a UAE adviser and back-channel conduit he met Trump Jr., Erik Prince and Joel Zamel at Trump Tower (Aug 2016) and attended the January 2017 Seychelles meeting with UAE officials and RDIF head Kirill Dmitriev. (Biographical, external, not established by EFTA corpus.)
Apr 17, 2021 email, subject 'RE: United States v. Nader': a federal prosecutor thanks a colleague for 'speaking with me about the Nader case' — George Nader's Eastern District of Virginia prosecution, United States v. Nader, 19 Cr. 201 (LMB) — reports a favorable opinion, and attaches 'Maxwell_Opini...
Mueller Witness George Nader Faces New Child Pornography Charges — Bloomberg, 2019/06/03 (uae-adviser-george-nader-charged). Saved among Jeffrey Epstein's materials, tracking Nader's arrest as the Mueller-investigation witness and UAE adviser.
Ruemmler is President Barack Obama's former White House Counsel. She is currently a Partner at Latham & Watkins where she has represented George Nader in connection with the Mueller probe. Jeffrey Epstein did not pay Ruemmler directly. The wire was sent to 'JetSuite Air,' a private jet charter compa...