A former senior policy adviser under President Barack Obama’s administration has been charged with child sex offenses in the UK.
New Jersey native Rahamim “Rami” Shy, 46, faced Luton Crown Court last Friday after being arrested on a slew of charges, including arranging the commission of a child sex offense and possessing indecent images of children, the Daily Mail reported, citing court documents.
Clad in a grey prison tracksuit, the former Treasury Department staffer — who was nabbed and charged in February — wasn’t asked to enter a plea during the court hearing.
Exact details of his alleged offenses weren’t immediately clear but he is being held in custody until his next court hearing in June, the outlet said.
Shy had worked within the US Treasury Department between 2008 and 2014 and helped advise the Obama White House on how to counter terrorism financing from Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
He once testified before a congressional hearing in 2009 on security issues in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to C-SPAN.
Most recently, Shy — who studied at Rutgers University and Columbia University — was employed as an executive at Citi bank, though a rep for the bank said he is no longer employed there.
Shy’s LinkedIn and social media accounts appear to have been scrubbed.
It wasn’t immediately clear if Shy was living in UK at the time of his arrest and efforts to reach him were not immediately successful Monday.
