Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Trump administration shields Israeli official charged with child sex crime

 

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The US government is denying that it helped a senior Israeli official leave the country after his arrest on a serious child sex crime charge.

And on Monday, the Israeli-born top US federal prosecutor in Nevada confirmed that she is declining to prosecute the official, leaving the matter instead to local authorities – a sign the US is trying to downplay the matter and shield Israel and the accused pedophile from the consequences.

“The Department of State is aware that Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, an Israeli citizen, was arrested in Las Vegas and given a court date for charges related to soliciting sex electronically from a minor,” the US foreign ministry’s Near Eastern Affairs bureau posted on Twitter/X on Monday.

“He did not claim diplomatic immunity and was released by a state judge pending a court date. Any claims that the US government intervened are false,” the State Department added.

The denial is unlikely to quell concerns that Alexandrovich, executive director of the defense division of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, was given special treatment – especially amid ongoing controversy over US and Israeli government links to pedophile child-trafficking mastermind Jeffrey Epstein.  (more...)

Trump administration shields Israeli official charged with child sex crime




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