- Rahamim ‘Rami’ Shy, 46, coordinated the US strategy to combat terrorists.
A former senior political adviser to the Obama administration has appeared in court in Britain accused of sex crimes against children.
Rahamim ‘Rami’ Shy, 46, who coordinated the US government’s strategy to combat Al Qaeda terrorists and the Taliban, is accused of organizing the commission of a child sex crime, court documents reveal.
He is also charged with possession of two category C indecent images of children and possession of a prohibited image of a child.
Shy, a US citizen who lives in New Jersey and worked in the White House under President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, was arrested in late February by Bedfordshire police. He was charged the following day and appeared at Luton Crown Court via video link from HMP Bedford on Friday wearing a gray prison tracksuit.
He was not asked to plead guilty to any of the charges and remained in custody before a hearing in June.
Rahamim ‘Rami’ Shy (pictured) is accused of organizing the commission of a child sex crime, court documents reveal
Former US President Barack Obama in 2014. Shy worked for the White House during Barack Obama’s presidency. Bedfordshire Police arrested Shy in February and she has since been charged with child sex offences.
Luton Crown Court where Shy appeared via video link from HMP Bedford on Friday wearing a gray prison tracksuit
Shy, a U.S. citizen who lives in New Jersey, worked for Hillary Clinton when she was Secretary of State.
Obama and his cabinet witnessed the assassination of Osama Bin Laden in 2011. Shy coordinated the US government’s strategy to combat Al Qaeda terrorists and the Taliban.
Shy most recently worked as an executive at banking group Citi and held a senior position at the US Treasury Department from 2008 to 2014, advising officials on combating the financing of terrorism and helping foreign governments impose sanctions on hostile regimes. . In addition to serving as a senior advisor to the late U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, who served under the last three Democratic presidents, Shy provided strategic policy analysis to chiefs of staff at the U.S. Department of Defense.
He was sent to Afghanistan to provide expertise to the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), which was created to maintain stability following the US-led invasion of the country.
According to his LinkedIn page, Shy provided ISAF with counterterrorism financing expertise and later presented the US strategy in Afghanistan at a Congressional hearing in 2010.
Shy was a student at Rutgers University in New Jersey and later studied international security policy at Columbia University’s School of Public and International Affairs in New York.
A Citi spokesperson said Shy was no longer an employee of the banking group. Shy is due to go to trial in August.