U.S. Diplomat Accused of Pressuring Visa Applicants for Sex

Fox News ^ | February 15, 2008 | AP

[khnyny]

ALEXANDRIA, Virginia — A U.S. Foreign Service officer stationed in Brazil and Congo used his status to pressure female visa applicants for sex, according to federal charges.

Gons G. Nachman, 42, is charged in U.S. District Court with misuse of his diplomatic passport, making false statements and possessing child pornography. The charges were unsealed Friday.

Nachman was ordered jailed pending a detention hearing scheduled for Tuesday. Court records reflect that a defense lawyer has not yet been appointed.

According to the affidavit, Nachman made a habit of pressuring and pursuing sexual relationships with attractive female visa applicants while stationed in Rio de Janeiro.

Two applicants interviewed by federal agents said Nachman "persistently pursued these female applicants despite his position as U.S. Vice Consul who was personally handling these still pending immigration visa cases."

One of the women told agents that Nachman "took advantage of her and he instructed her that, if questioned, she should deny knowing him personally."

Nachman admitted to having sexual relationships with two women, according to the affidavit.

The affidavit also says that Nachman helped a woman from the Congo file a false refugee application with the Brazilian government so she could work for Nachman while he was stationed in Rio de Janeiro.

While she was employed by him, the woman said Nachman made her film and photograph his sexual encounters with women, some as young as 15, in late 2006 and early 2007.

Also, agents filed a search warrant for items Nachman had shipped to the Port of Baltimore and found videotapes of Nachman with sexual intercourse with a 17-year-old Congolese girl in 2004, when he was assigned to the Congo. Agents tracked down the girl and interviewed her; she confirmed she was 17 at the time the tape was made.

[rockinqsranch]

Thank You.

[dighton]

He wasn’t called a Vice Consul for nuthin.

[JRios1968]

Dear Diana:

[Revolting cat!]

Great gig! Not that he’s out, maybe I oughta apply.The trick is subtlety, dude, not pressure!

[grey_whiskers]

"Diploma from basement of the Ivy League, $40,000"

"Admission to nude beach in Florida, $20"

"Bonking third-world visa applicants...Priceless."

There are some things being a petty bureaucrat can't buy. For everything else, there's Visa.^TM

Visa --for everyone you want to do, from everywhere they want to flee.

Cheers!

[perez24]

Who would make the determination if not bureaucrats of some sort or another?

[Diana in Wisconsin]

LOL! What’s good for the Goose is good for the Gander! ;)

[aculeus]

Never trust a guy whose first name is Gons.

[JRios1968]

Ah, no...the Institute decides that.

[sefarkas]

In-process them in an Ellis Island sorta way. Collect identification, e.g. photographs, fingerprints, DNA swab; medical examine them; and, have them pay a fee/price high enough to control the amount that want to enter from getting out-of-hand. The folks willing to go through that and pay to boot ... we can’t have enough. Except for the fee & DNA, that’s how my folks entered in the early 1960s.

[Albion Wilde]

Your claim is outrageous. It was another Gons Nachman.

LOL.

[Albion Wilde]

"Diploma from basement of the Ivy League, $40,000"

I take exception to your statement about the basement of the Ivy League.
It's not just a diploma; it's a degree.

[Albion Wilde]

Penn ping!

[grey_whiskers]

I had a high school friend who went there, and then on to Cal Tech for grad school.

That's what *she* called it.

Cheers!

[khnyny]

Now that is one funny, witty, creative post! LOL.

Cheers!

[grey_whiskers]

Thanks, I take tips.

Or tuna sandwiches.

Cheers!

[khnyny]

LOL. Outrageous, I say.

Seriously, I thinks a name like Gons Nachman would warrant a second look.:)

(In liberal worldspeak) Poor kid, with a name like that, he never got the girl....it set him up for a lifetime of insecurity and exploitation. (Gons is insecure and he exploits others to make up for his horrible childhood and the audacity of his parents to name him Gons).

[Albion Wilde]

I had a high school friend who went [to Penn]. That's what *she* called it.

Oh, I know! My little riposte wasn't clear.

I seriesly hope this incident trims the sails of the Penn PC crowd a little. How responsible law school could graduate this creep as a lawyer when he was already sporting around nude in the middle of a dense urban campus where many underprivileged urban high school youths have campus jobs as clerks, cleaners, etc. is beyond me.

[Albion Wilde]

(Gons is insecure and he exploits others to make up for his horrible childhood and the audacity of his parents to name him Gons).

Gons is short for what — Gonads?