Report: Adviser to Emirates with ties to Trump aides cooperating with Mueller
George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman with ties to current and former aides of President Trump, is cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller and testified in front of a grand jury last week, two people familiar with the matter told The New York Times.
Nader, an adviser to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan of the United Arab Emirates, has been questioned several times by investigators about meetings he attended in New York during the Trump transition and in the White House with Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, and former chief strategist Stephen Bannon. Mueller has asked other witnesses about the possibility that Nader illegally funneled money from the Emirates to Trump's campaign, the Times reports.
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