Trump admin denies helping Israeli official charged with child sex crimes in Nevada

[iemanja]

Source: Raw Story

President Donald Trump's administration denied assisting an Israeli official who was reportedly charged with child sex crimes in Nevada.

In a statement last week, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said that eight individuals had been arrested in a sting targeting child sex predators. Israeli government cybersecurity official Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, 38, was charged as part of the operations, Las Vegas officials said.

By Saturday, Alexandrovich had been released and returned to Israel, according to The Guardian.

Independent journalist Sean King reported that "the Trump administration personally intervened, at Israel's request, to override U.S. law enforcement, including their own federal agents involved in the sting, to make sure that Alexandrovich got back to Israel quickly and safely."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/trump-admin-denies-helping-israeli-official-charged-with-child-sex-crimes-in-nevada/ar-AA1KKeWY?ocid=BingNewsSerp

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This despite the fact that he's out on bail with a court date for this week.

[otchmoson]

1. President Pedo strikes again

Is there a pedophile anywhere that President Pedo won't try to help?

[FirstLight]

2. wow...protectors of pedos, eh...?

This is gonna get buried in the other news of the day

[iemanja]

3. It's barely being covered

I first saw it on Twitter last night and then did a search and came up with only a couple of articles.

[FirstLight]

4. Journalism these days is so horrible...

I understand the shiny new thng mentality, especially with tiktok and other short attention span media. But ugh. There's TONS of stuff going on we're missing...

[Paladin]

6. There's TONS of stuff the mainstream media are ignoring.

If a Democratic administration was accused of the exact same thing, the media would be shitting blue flames of outrage, 24/7. Look at their non-stop scrutiny of Biden's administration, vs. the vast quantities of vile wrongdoing by trump, being actively bypassed. Beyond shameful.

[Mosby]

8. It really is bad.

The police released very little info about this "sting operation" and the media didn't ask questions.

[IbogaProject]

5. I am sure Israel will extradite them

Except they have a firm never extradite policy, that makes any one allowing an accused criminal leave the USA for there a coconspirator.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. Of course he helped him out.

Disgusting what has happened to this country.

[mdbl]

9. He helped Ghislaine Maxwell

What's the difference at this point?

[IronLionZion]

10. So much for protecting American children from predators, foreign or domestic

[Mosby]

11. No children were involved in this sting operation.

That's the way stings work.

[IronLionZion]

12. I am aware of how sting operations work in law enforcement.

[Mosby]

13. So you know there are no actual victims and the police and prosecutors rely on deception

To convince suspects that they have committed a crime even though there is no actual victim. The courts have gone along with this "proactive" approach to law enforcement.

[IronLionZion]

18. Are you supporting this predator?

He's not innocent. He was communicating with someone he thought was a child.

[Mosby]

19. No. But I don't support stings.

Sex workers in Oregon call for an end to police stings, officials signal support

https://www.courthousenews.com/sex-workers-in-oregon-call-for-an-end-to-police-stings-officials-signal-support/

Law Enforcement or Law Corruption: Shifting the Focus in Police Paid-Sex Stings

https://cseinstitute.org/law-enforcement-or-law-corruption-shifting-the-focus-in-police-paid-sex-stings/

[iemanja]

23. There is a chasm of difference between an adult sex worker and a child

How is it you can't see that?

[Mosby]

25. How old were the "children" in this sting op?

Did they pretend to be 10 or 17?

We don't know because the media doesn't ask questions.

FWIW, im a survivor of child abuse. Thats all im going to say about that.

[Incanus]

35. What difference does it make if the officer pretended to be 10 or 17?

The person arrested was going to prey on a CHILD. A 17 year old victim is STILL a CHILD. Would his behavior seem less predatory to you if he was going to prey on a teenager?

A 16 year old transgender girl was raped and murdered in my city last year, she was killed by a 30 year old man, is that crime less horrific because she was a teenager and not 'prepubescent'?

Don't bother to answer, I'm not in the mood for semantic predator apologist word games.

[Mosby]

36. Age of consent laws vary by state.

Last edited Wed Aug 20, 2025, 10:16 AM - Edit history (1)

Most states it's somewhere from 14 to 16 years old.

Some states allow for young adults to have sex even if one is older that 18. They are called Romeo and Juliet laws.

[iemanja]

39. If the CHILDREN were over the age of consent

There would be no crime to sting.

[Incanus]

40. This arrest was for a CHILD sexual predator.

I can't believe you're still trying to make the predator out to be the victim.

Oh, wait, yes, I can believe that.

If the predator was soliciting a person who was of the age of consent then it wouldn't be a crime, right? Spare me with the rape apologist rhetoric, I've heard it all before.

[Mosby]

43. No where in this thread have i made excuses for predatory behavior.

If you love you some cop sting operations fine, but I've seen and read about far too much police misconduct to trust them with sting operations. I sort of can't believe i have to explain this here on DU.

[Incanus]

46. This predator got into a car to meet what he thought was a child for sex.

I don't have any reason to believe this predator is a victim of entrapment so I will continue to object to your defense of him unless you can prove he was the victim. It's funny how you never objected to the sting operation in the other threads nor did you defend the other predators. What's so special about this guy other than the fact he was allowed to flee the country after being arrested?

[iemanja]

37. Those details aren't in the paper, but they said "children," not minors

Children typically mean pre-pubescent. Did you take the same stand in your OP about the Pastor? I think we all know the answer to that.

I've had enough excuses for a child predator.

[Mosby]

44. The police are using loaded language on purpose.

A minor and a child is the same thing.

[iemanja]

45. I've bookmarked this thread. nt

[Mosby]

48. According to the Guardian

The "child" is now a 15 yo teenager.

An Israeli government official charged with soliciting a minor believed he was meeting a 15-year-old girl for “sexual contact”, according to police – and brought a condom to the planned rendezvous in Las Vegas.

Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a division head at the Israel National Cyber Directorate, was arrested in a police sting operation aimed at online users seeking to sexually prey on children. The Las Vegas outlet 8NewsNow reported that Alexandrovich chatted with an officer posing as a teenager online before being arrested.

Are you willing to admit that the suspects weren't engaged in pedophilic behavior?

Apparently they mixed and matched the purported victims:

Southern Nevada police agencies and federal authorities arrested eight men as part of the sting operation. Also arrested, Neal Creecy, 46, a pastor accused of meeting a person he thought was a 14-year-old boy, documents said.

[iemanja]

49. So were Epstein's victims

Are you seriously arguing that molesting 15 yr olds is acceptable? I read this exact defense for Trump on X.
Obviously they are pedophiles, or they wouldn't have been caught trying to lure underage girls. He brought a condom with him to the meeting, which reveals his intent.

I

[Mosby]

51. You keep assuming things in my posts.

So I'm going to disengage.

[iemanja]

50. That doesn't seem accurate

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=3515361

[iemanja]

14. Patently false

Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, 38, was arrested earlier this month and is facing a felony charge of luring a child with a computer for a sex act, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said Friday. He has since been released from custody after posting a $10,000 bail, court records show.

Your defense of this pedophile. to the point of making obviously false comments, is unacceptable.

[Mosby]

15. The police pretended to be a child.

You don't know this?

Further, the police in Henderson didn't say what age the officers were pretending to be, so the SUSPECTS may or may not be pedos.

[iemanja]

16. How many children do you think he has already molested?

Guys don't get caught their first time out. Is all this because he's Israeli? An Israeli pedophile must be defended at all costs?
Whatever your excuse, it's shocking.

[Mosby]

17. I'm not a fan of sting operations.

The fact that he is Israeli just caught my eye.

[iemanja]

21. Better to let the men molest children?

Frankly, I don't care what you think of sting operations. Pedophiles should not go free, but this one is because of his privileged position. So now he's free to molest as many children as he likes.

[Mosby]

24. Stings don't prevent crime, they create crime.

And it's not just men who molest kids, its also women.

One scenario:

An undercover cop dresses like a homeless person, using old, dirty clothes, he or she is messy, dirty hair, smells bad. They lay down on the sidewalk, with a 20 dollar bill sticking out of their shirt pocket and pretends to be passed out from a couple hits of fentanyl. Another homeless person comes by and grabs the bill out of their pocket, was this theft or entrapment?

The right answer is entrapment.

[rzemanfl]

26. Agree 100%.

These stings began as a distraction by Alberto Gonzales from the mistakes of Dubyah's administration. Millions were spread around to create stings and prosecute people for trying to meet up with fake teens.

[Buddyzbuddy]

29. First it's not entrapment, it's a crime.

Second, I'm pretty sure most adults aren't going to be tempted to have sex with underage girls. Without the the threshold of the age of consent it's at the very least, rape at worst child rape.

Anybody that tries to defend somebody taking the bait is on the wrong side of this argument and makes me question their motives. Might that be somebody belonging to one of the organizations justifying child rape, such as NAMBLA? Now, I'm not accusing anybody of that but I think priorities may be distorting their actual motive and needs to think about it.

My mom was a victim, not a decoy. A real victim whose assailant was not caught and I'm sure went on to victimize others. Your damn RIGHT law enforcement can and should run "catch a predatator" programs. Would you rather these sick f.cks would be allowed to actually victimize a child before being charged? It's not a perfect system but it's a great way to filter out those that are predisposed of such sick behavior.

Would you still be so defensive of these 8 men if one of them wasn't Tom Artiom Alexandrovich age 38 from Israel working in Netanyahu's Gov't.? IMHO the US Gov't made a huge mistake allowing him to leave the country especially with the Felon's record of behavior. It looks really bad, like "Birds of a feather"...
This has nothing to do with race or nationality.

[Mosby]

33. This is a difficult issue to discuss

And the example I used is a TEXTBOOK case of entrapment. I literally got it from a textbook.

[Buddyzbuddy]

42. It's the job of defense attorney's, judges and juries to

remain neutral and to consider the defendant innocent until proven guilty and to some degree society until the case has been adjudicated.
There is also the safety of society that must be considered.
In your example of a $20 bill sticking out of the pocket of an unconscious decoy, it's still a crime. The defendant had a choice, desperate or not. That choice was to take (steal) something that he had no right to. It is a petty, non-violent crime that could be dealt with as such in the penalty phase.
On the other hand, the sting operation, seeks to "lure" any person that is predisposed to illegal, sexually deviant behavior by offering a choice albeit a false choice unknown to the defendant at the time of the illegal act. Whether the sting involves a real victim is of no consequence, the intent to cause a minor person harm is very real. The age of the intended victim is also pertinent in the sentencing phase. The sting's main objective is to remove these predisposed people from society before they actually cause harm to a victim.

It's no different than using fake drugs in a drug sting to set up and arrest a dealer.

The only thing I would agree that is difficult to discuss is the lasting harm that these degenerates cause, but the topic of entrapment vs. a sting operation, I think, is to distract from what I believe your genuine intent is, which is to deflect any responsibility from one individual that you have taken issue with being included with the other 7. From previous posts I've read I understand but I believe it to be a losing argument having defended the indefensible.

I bare no ill will towards you personally and I wish you well. I hope I've shed some light and defended my position well without animosity towards you. I just see this subject as black and white with no gray areas.

[PufPuf23]

31. "The fact that he is Israeli just caught my eye." is a blatant lie to readers of DU.

You made 4 posts with more than casual effort in this OP on Saturday (two days ago) about the arrests in an effort to deflect attention away from the Israeli cyber security official.

Israeli government official arrested in Nevada in internet crimes against children sting

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143513863

Then made an OP on Saturday (two days ago) about the pedo sting arrests focusing on a Las Vegas pastor with zero mention of the arrest of a prominent cyber security Israeli official.

Las Vegas pastor arrested in child predator sting operation

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143514033

[Mosby]

32. Yeah, a couple days ago.

How is that a lie exactly?

Why do you call them "pedo sting arrests"? Do you have information that the cops pretended to be pre-pubescent children? Please share that.

[PufPuf23]

34. "Just caught your eye" implying today

when you posted two days ago when the arrests were first Breaking News followed by posting an OP with no mention of the Israeli cyber security official.

The initial article refers to child sex crimes, "President Donald Trump's administration denied assisting an Israeli official who was reportedly charged with child sex crimes in Nevada." Alexandrovich is out on bail and has returned to Israel.

"In a statement last week, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said that eight individuals had been arrested in a sting targeting child sex predators. Israeli government cybersecurity official Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, 38, was charged as part of the operations, Las Vegas officials said." How does "pedo sting arrest" differ from "sting targeting child sex predators"?

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143514711

[iemanja]

38. Nothing about your disapproval of a sting operation

Surprise, surprise.

[Clouds Passing]

20. An epstein/dumpy follower

[Quanto Magnus]

22. Every denial

is an admission....

[Botany]

27. After a 100% dirty election Trump is his own law now.

Goon squads, billions in bribes and grift, shutting down the science of understanding global warming
and medicine, telling Ukraine it has to surrender its people, lands, and natural resources to Putin for
peace, stealing daily from the U.S. treasury for his golf, Russian tanks flying U.S. flags* in Ukraine, kissing
Putin’s ass on a U.S. military base… Putin was paying the Taliban 100 k per American military personnel
they killed in Afghanistan…. fucking up the White House and Jackie’s Rose Garden just to be a dick, and
now this? I betya Bibi has some serious kompromat on Trump.

He is burning America to the ground.


* it maybe AI.

[Exp]

28. But, of course! nt

[More_Cowbell]

30. Journalist was Shaun King, not Sean King (mistake was MSNBC's, not OP's) nt

[iemanja]

41. Thanks for the correction. nt

[Incanus]

47. Apparently he brought a condom with him to meet the decoy.

An Israeli government official charged with soliciting a minor believed he was meeting a 15-year-old girl for “sexual contact”, according to police – and brought a condom to the planned rendezvous in Las Vegas.

Tom Artiom Alexandrovich, a division head at the Israel National Cyber Directorate, was arrested in a police sting operation aimed at online users seeking to sexually prey on children. The Las Vegas outlet 8NewsNow reported that Alexandrovich chatted with an officer posing as a teenager online before being arrested.

“The sexual contact included bringing a condom and taking the decoy to ‘Cirque du Soleil’,” which stages elaborate shows along the Las Vegas Strip, said police documents seen by 8NewsNow.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/19/israeli-official-soliciting-minor-las-vegas

What are the chances Alexandrovich will show up at his hearing to defend his innocence?

[Fla Dem]

52. Deny, deny, deny, that's Humper's modus operandi.