The familiar MAGA figure added to the furor over the recent arrest.
Marjorie Taylor Greene has weighed in on the recent arrest of a high-level Israeli official over alleged involvement in child sex crimes, adding to the Trump administration’s headaches as it attempts to navigate the growing scandal.
Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a man who has been identified as a high-ranking member of Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, was arrested recently in a sting operation in Las Vegas. The sting operation, which was jointly run by the FBI and local police, targeted child sex predators.
New details about Alexandrovich’s arrest have been reported over the past day. CBS affiliate KLAS has reported that Alexandrovich was in Las Vegas for the cybersecurity conference Blackhat, and that, during that time, he is alleged to have chatted online with a “decoy”—an undercover cop posing as a 15-year-old girl—according to documents viewed by the news outlet. Using the dating app Pure, the two discussed meeting up for “sexual contact,” the outlet says. Police told KLAS: “The sexual contact included bringing a condom and taking the decoy to [a] ‘Cirque du Soleil’” show.
According to the report, Alexandrovich told police that he “believed the girl he was chatting with was 18.
