On Tuesday evening, Uthmeier wrote: "Last week, I directed my office to work with our law enforcement partners to conduct a preliminary inquiry into Andrew and Tristan Tate."
"Based on a thorough review of the evidence, I’ve directed the Office of Statewide Prosecution to execute search warrants and issue subpoenas in the now-active criminal investigation into the Tate brothers."
Last week, I directed my office to work with our law enforcement partners to conduct a preliminary inquiry into Andrew and Tristan Tate.
— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) March 4, 2025
Based on a thorough review of the evidence, I’ve directed the Office of Statewide Prosecution to execute search warrants and issue subpoenas…
In 2023, I published a thread to X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, entitled: "Andrew Tate: Conservative "Trad" Influencer or Jeffrey Epstein 2.0?".
The thread was severely shadow banned and suppressed, conveniently cutting off the thread after only a handful of posts. I have to direct users to start at the bottom of the thread and scroll all the way up in order to read the entire thing and view all of the video content.
Linked here is the beginning of the thread.
My thread begins with a video of Andrew Tate commenting on why he moved to Romania.
'"40% of the reason I moved to Romania was because rape laws are more lenient there."
Tate continued, "I’m not a f****** rapist, but I like the idea of just being able to do what I want."
Andrew Tate said he moved to Romania in 2017, at least in part to avoid potential criminal charges for his actions.
"Romania remains a primary source country for sex trafficking and labor trafficking victims in Europe," according to the U.S. State Department, in its 2023 report on trafficking.
On June 21, 2023, self-described self-help, sex, and business "guru" and kickboxer Andrew Tate was charged with continued sex trafficking charges. His brother, Tristan Tate, as well as two females were also charged, including his personal assistant Georgiana Naghel and a woman named Luana Radu who Tate claims "he only met once."
Contrary to Andrew’s claims of Luana being a complete stranger, Georgiana Naghel and Luana Radu are known as "Tate’s Angels." Radu goes by @Ellie_Dely on social media, with over 300,000 followers on Instagram, where she is seen posing with Tate’s infamous Bugatti, which has now reportedly been seized.
Georgiana Naghel is an American citizen, born in Romania, and is believed to have first met Andrew Tate in 2017. Also an influencer, she is speculated to be Andrew Tate’s current girlfriend.
Per the BBC, "The indictment deposited with the Bucharest court says that the four defendants formed an organized criminal group in 2021 to commit human trafficking in Romania, but also in other countries including the US and the UK. It names seven alleged victims who it says were recruited by the Tate brothers through false promises of love and marriage.
Romanian authorities allege Naghel and Radu regularly threatened the women living in the Tate house with violence if they did not regularly produce sexually explicit content for them. Naghel and Radu are currently under house arrest.
"According to prosecutors, Naghel and Radu allegedly acted as enforcers, fining women for showing up late to shoots or for falling short of TikTok quotas, and threatening to beat them up if they didn’t comply. They also threatened to — and did, on at least one occasion, per court documents — hack into women’s accounts and post intimate photos without their consent if they failed to comply with their demands." (Rolling Stone)
The alleged victims were later taken to buildings in Ilfov county in Romania where they were intimidated, placed under constant surveillance and control and forced into debt, according to Romanian prosecutors. The defendants allegedly then forced the women to take part in pornography which was later shared on social media.
There are also separate charges still under investigation which could lead to a separate indictment, including money laundering and trafficking of minors.
"Were the female supporters he surrounded himself with wooed by the charms he’s been selling to his followers — or are they victims of the "loverboy method," the term used by prosecutors to describe how Tate and his brother allegedly lured vulnerable women to Romania? (The Tates deny all the criminal allegations against them.)" (Rolling Stone)
The act of recruitment by means of deception for the purpose of sexual exploitation is legally classified as human trafficking. The 'Loverboy' method of trafficking is when Romeo-style pimps operate by making young girls or boys fall in love with them, often manipulating them in additional ways as well.
However, once they have their victims under their influence they then exploit them, usually in the sex industry. Andrew and Tristan Tate have admitted to this on multiple occasions on video and podcasts. They’ve also sold a course for $450, The PHD Program, actually teaching others how to do it.
Attached are screenshots that were still present on their website until late January after the Tate brothers’ arrests.
In 2018, Tate launched the PhD (Pimping Hoes’ Degree) program, a $450 video course that allegedly instructed men on how to attract women. The following is a clip from Andrew Tate’s PHD course where he explains the importance of having a "Bottom b*tch" to convince and lure women into his cam work with the help of sex and alcohol.
He says, "You cannot get a girl to work for you who you haven’t f*****." The PHD course is my recruitment system. I don’t mention web cam until after I’ve had sex with the girl. . . You want a girl who’s in it [because] she wants to be with you."
The above video would be embedded here, but at the time of my publishing of this thread, I had restrictions on my X account. I have asked staff at X to lift these previous bans; I don't know if it will apply to old posts and media.
For the full thread, start at this link and scroll up.
