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2025-08-28 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Once Upon a Time in Las Vegas: The FBI Was Catching Pedophiles, But Caught an Israeli Civil Servant
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
by Ol'ga Kuznetsova
[REGNUm] Some stories grace the front pages, while others – though worthy of tens of times more glory – are shamefully hidden under the chronicle of events in the Middle East or a military spectacle in the Caribbean. This is exactly what happened with the arrest in the US of Israeli cybersecurity officer Artem Tom.
| Elsewhere his name is given as Tom Alexandrovich and his employer as National Cyber Directorate. |
ALTHOUGH WHY “EMPLOYEE”?
Tom was then the head of a department at Israel's National Cyber Authority and was in Las Vegas to attend an international conference for information security professionals.
His professional knowledge, however, did not help him avoid arrest, which was carried out as part of a secret operation by the Las Vegas police and the FBI. The Israeli cybersecurity specialist was caught – like many before him – in, to put it mildly, frivolous communication with a fifteen-year-old girl on the Internet.
MIRACULOUS LIBERATION
During a break from the conference, the Israeli agreed to a pleasant meeting, to which he agreed to take a condom. The girl, judging by the information in open sources, insisted on this in the correspondence. Later, having met her, Tom took his new girlfriend to the Cirque du Soleil, and then was arrested - no one, however, writes at what exact moment.
The arrest took place as part of an operation aimed at prosecuting individuals who have committed sexual crimes against minors.
The girl turned out to be a front woman, and the correspondence with Tom was conducted by American operatives. Later, the Israeli claimed that he was seriously convinced that his partner was of legal age and knew nothing.
However, he did not remain in prison for long.
Being a civil servant of another country, the cyber specialist did not take advantage of diplomatic immunity, posted bail - $10,000 - and was released with an order to appear for trial in late August.
Naturally, Artem Tom, not wanting to tempt fate and taking advantage of the lack of control and any regulations, immediately left the United States and returned home.
No one detained him for 24 hours, put an electronic bracelet on him, or assigned a police officer, as is usually done in such cases.
The most interesting thing is that no one even promptly scheduled a court hearing that would have prevented the alleged criminal from leaving the country.
Witnesses report that Tom didn't even hide during the initial hearing that he had a plane to Israel soon - but the judge allegedly didn't pay any attention to this.
And that's when the scandals began.
THE PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT TO KNOW!
The Clark County District Attorney in Nevada, giving an interview, said that the case was handled according to standard protocol. He was allegedly echoed by representatives of the all-powerful State Department, who reported that they did not interfere in this process in any way.
However, the representative of the US Attorney General in Nevada, Sigal Chattah, allowed herself to insert a barb on social media.
She wrote that the state was obliged to confiscate the passport of a man who fled the country. He should be "immediately returned to face justice."
In addition, Chattah made it clear that U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi was extremely outraged and even called Chattah herself and FBI Director Cash Patel.
Other prominent Republicans also spoke out, including Congresswomen Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie, and journalist Tucker Carlson.
Chattah, who was born in Israel, also received her share of "kicks." Some accused her of freeing a fellow criminal.
However, there was also contrary information: some media outlets wrote that Artem Tom had not been arrested. He had simply been interrogated and returned to Israel, “as planned.”
Meanwhile, our hero's resume disappeared from popular recruiting sites, and information appeared on Israeli resources that he either took a temporary leave from work or was fired by mutual agreement. In short, the person involved in the scandal has clearly "lain low."
And at this point, local resources switched to an extremely uncomfortable topic: the split within the MAGA (“America First”) movement.
PEDOPHILES AND THE SCHISM
Congresswoman Greene was the one who was most zealous in creating the "turmoil." She was the first to throw the idea into the information space that representatives of the American government were involved in the release of the lover of young girls.
Frankly speaking, the idea is quite obvious, especially considering that Artem Tom — as some media outlets write — worked in the team of Benjamin Netanyahu himself. And the special position of Israeli officials in the States has not surprised anyone for a long time.
However, the situation is somewhat different now.
The arrest of the Israeli occurred against the backdrop of unpleasant unrest related to the case of another famous criminal, Jeffrey Epstein, who supplied underage girls to the powers that be. Donald Trump's team has failed to keep its campaign promises and has not published the famous list of clients who visited the "pedophile island."
Moreover, they began to hint that such a list does not exist at all.
This was confirmed by Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, who was suddenly given a softer detention in Texas instead of a Florida prison. Maxwell even began making strange statements like Bill Clinton (who is on the "Epstein list" circulating on the Internet), Prince Andrew, and Donald Trump himself never allowed themselves to do anything inappropriate.
Public opinion received this information without much enthusiasm.
Stories like these are not particularly bright (due to the active external “plug”), but they demonstrate a certain split within the Republican Party, which is trying its best to demonstrate strength and unity in the fight against Democratic competitors.
At the same time, in certain issues, Trump is no more literate than his predecessor, Joe Biden, whom he so loves to criticize in fits of self-promotion.
It's not entirely clear what this approach will lead to, but it's highly doubtful that members of the Democratic Party won't save the Epstein and Tom stories for a better time when they can be used to their advantage.
Israeli official accused of Nevada sex crime ordered to appear in court via Zoom
[IsraelTimes] An Israeli official accused of trying to meet a 15-year-old girl for sex outside Las Vegas has been ordered to appear via video link next week after he missed his arraignment hearing on Wednesday, local media report.
Tom Alexandrovich, a senior cybersecurity official with the Israeli government, was one of eight people arrested as part of a multi-week operation by Nevada and federal authorities targeting "child sex predators," according to an August 15 statement from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department.
He was due to be at a court in Henderson, just outside Las Vegas, on Wednesday for a felony arraignment hearing, according to court records.
Local media, including the Las Vegas Review-Journal and local news station KLAS-TV, say he skipped the hearing. The Review-Journal quotes his lawyers as saying they had agreed with the district attorney’s office that Alexandrovich did not have to appear in person.
The judge is quoted by the newspaper as saying the district attorney’s office had no authority to make that agreement and ordered his appearance next week. The outlets say Alexandrovich’s lawyers arranged for him to appear remotely via Zoom.
Messages left by Rooters with the district attorney’s office were not returned. The court docket shows that a new arraignment hearing has been set for September 3. Alexandrovich’s lawyers say in an email that their client "will appear by Zoom as permitted by the Court." Attempts to reach Alexandrovich have been unsuccessful.
Alexandrovich was arrested in Henderson after arranging to meet a decoy posing as a teenage girl, according to a police report cited by local media. He quickly posted bail and returned to Israel, drawing international scrutiny and raising questions over whether the US or Israeli governments had exerted any pressure to speed his release.
In comments to the local media, Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson, whose office has jurisdiction over Las Vegas and Henderson, called the bail conditions "standard" and said there had been no special treatment. The US State Department has said the American government had no involvement in the case. 
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