A senior coverage advisor in former president Barack Obama’s administration is going through potential jail time for crimes involving youngsters.
The Every day Mail reported Sunday that 46-year-old Rahamim Shy was arrested by British police in Bedfordshire in late February. Courtroom paperwork obtained by the Mail reveal Shy is accused of arranging the fee of a kid intercourse offense.
Shy has additionally been charged with possession of two class C indecent pictures of kids and possessing a prohibited picture of a kid.
The Mail reviews he appeared at Luton Crown Courtroom by way of video on Friday carrying a gray prison-issue tracksuit.
Shy is an American citizen who lives in New Jersey. He labored for the White Home underneath Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Whereas working within the White Home, Shy was answerable for directing the US authorities’s technique to fight Islamist terrorists similar to Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Shy particularly labored in a senior position on the US Treasury Division from 2008 to 2014, advising officers on countering the financing of terrorism and aiding international governments to impose sanctions on hostile regimes. This in all probability explains why he was introduced into contact with Clinton for the reason that State Division imposes sanctions on international powers.
He additionally supplied strategic coverage evaluation to chiefs of employees on the Division of Protection (DOD)in response to to the Mail.
As a part of his work with the DOD, he went to Afghanistan to supply “experience” to the Worldwide Safety Help Power (ISAF), a NATO-led group answerable for sustaining stability following America’s invasion greater than twenty years in the past.
After leaving the White Home, Shy went to work for Citi Financial institution, the place he held quite a lot of high govt positions in accordance to his Linkedin web page. A spokesman on the financial institution informed the Every day Mail that Shy is now not employed there.
Like a typical woke leftist, Shy’s pronouns are proudly displayed in his LinkedIn bio, as one can see under.

The Mail reveals Shy has not entered a plea presently and is at the moment in police custody forward of listening to in June. He’s scheduled to go on trial in August.
