Wasserman-Schultz IT Aide Arrested While Attempting To Flee Country, Charged With Bank Fraud
Just a day after reports emerged that the FBI had seized a number of
"smashed hard drives" and other computer equipment from the residence
Imran Awan, the IT aide of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, we learn that Awan
has been captured at the Dulles airport while attempted to flee the
country. According to Fox News, Awan has been charged with bank fraud.
Inexplicably, or perhaps not, Awan has been kept on the payroll of
former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz despite a rapidly escalating
scandal that potentially involves multiple federal crimes.
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Meanwhile, here is a list of the 30 other Democrats that had the Awans on their taxpayer-funded payrolls.
Some of the #Democrats who had Pakistani IT workers (currently under investigation) on their payroll. #AwanBrothersdailycaller.com/2017/03/01/pak…
For those who have managed to avoid this story, which wouldn't be difficult given that the mainstream media has made every attempt to ignore it, the Pakistani-born brothers Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan are at the center of a criminal investigation by U.S. Capital Hill Police and the FBI. Up until now, allegations of wrong doing have varied from overcharging taxpayers for congressional IT equipment to blackmailing members of Congress with secrets captured from the emails of their Democrat employers.
Just yesterday we learned that FBI
agents reportedly seized a number of "smashed hard drives" and other
computer equipment from the Awan's former residence in Virginia.
FBI agents seized smashed computer hard drives from the home of Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s information technology (IT) administrator, according to an individual who was interviewed by Bureau investigators in the case and a high level congressional source.Pakistani-born Imran Awan, long-time right-hand IT aide to the former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman, has since desperately tried to get the hard drives back, the individual told The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group.The congressional source, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the probe, confirmed that the FBI has joined what Politico previously described as a Capitol Police criminal probe into “serious, potentially illegal, violations on the House IT network” by Imran and three of his relatives, who had access to the emails and files of the more than two dozen House Democrats who employed them on a part-time basis.Capitol Police have also seized computer equipment tied to the Florida lawmaker.
As background, Imran
was first employed in 2004 by former Democrat Rep. Robert Wexler (FL)
as an “information technology director”, before he began working in Rep.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s office in 2005.
The family was paid extremely well, with Imran Awan being paid nearly $2 million working as an IT support staffer for House Democrats since 2004. Abid Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, were each paid more than $1 million working for House Democrats. In total, since 2003, the family has collected nearly $5 million.
The staffer’s services were so important to congressional members, that
on March 22, 2016, eight democrat members of the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence issued a letter, requesting that their
staffers be granted access to Top Secret Sensitive Compartmented
Information (TS/SCI). Of those that signed the letter were
representatives Jackie Speier (CA) and Andre Carson (IN), the second
Muslim in Congress, both of whom employed the Awan brothers.
The brothers were also employed by members of the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs,
such as: Jackie Speier (D-CA), Andre Carson (D-IN), Joaquín Castro
(D-TX), Lois Frankel (D-FL), Robin Kelly (D-IL), and Ted Lieu (D-CA).
Lieu has since openly called for leaks by members of President Trump's
administration despite the fact that he may until recently have been
under surveillance by a foreign entity.
One bombshell that has been all but ignored by the main stream media is that Imran Awan had access to Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s iPad password, meaning that the brothers also had direct access to the notorious DNC emails.
The brothers
are accused of removing hundreds of thousands of dollars of equipment
from congressional offices, including computers and servers, while also
running a procurement scheme in which they bought equipment, then
overcharged the House administrative office that assigns such
contractors to members.
Some congressional technology aides believe that the Awan’s are
blackmailing representatives based on the contents of their emails and
files, due to the fact that these representatives have displayed
unwavering and intense loyalty towards the former aides.
Meanwhile, back in March the Daily Caller reported
that the Awan brothers were essentially holding their stepmother in
"captivity" in order to extort her for money she had stashed away in
Pakistan.
Congressional staffers allegedly held their stepmother in “captivity” with violent threats in a plan to use her to access money stashed away in the Middle East. The staffers are suspected of using their positions to enrich themselves.Days before U.S. Capitol Police told House members three Pakistani brothers who ran their computer networks may have stolen congressional data, their stepmother called Fairfax County, Virginia police to say the Democratic staffers were keeping her from her husband’s deathbed.A relative described the woman’s life as being completely controlled by the brothers for months while they schemed to take their father’s life insurance.The brothers — who as IT professionals for Congress could read House members’ emails — allegedly used wiretapping devices on their own stepmother and threatened to abduct loved ones in Pakistan if she didn’t give them access to money stowed away in that country.
Of course, if Republicans and/or members of the Trump administration
hired foreign-born IT specialists who were suspected of committing a
laundry list of federal crimes and then smashed a bunch of hard drives
just before skipping town...we're sure the media would still gloss right
over it in much the same way they're doing for the the Democrats in
this instance.
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