Posted on 10/14/2017 6:43:46 PM PDT by bitt
The taxpayers’ dollars confiscated from Congress is “not the highest of our concerns,” Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, said in an interview about the case of IT staffer Imran Awan, his brothers Abid and Jamal, and their wives Natalia Sova and Hina Alvi.
The Awans were highly paid IT administrators working for dozens of House Democrats until Capitol Police began probing them earlier this year. The family is accused of stealing equipment from more than 20 congressional offices and accessing the House IT system without members’ knowledge.
“The American people deserve to know the truth to this; it is a big deal,” King said. “It’s not just $6 or $7 million, $120,000 worth of equipment here or there. The biggest thing is that the brothers, Awan’s wife and friend all had access to the private emails and electronic communications of members of Congress and all their staff.”
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Duh. Why has DWS not been arrested? Or has she flown the country, too?
bttt
This is the biggest “Well, duh!” moment I’ve seen in a long time.
Democrat party leadership (mainly the Clinton associates) have profited from intelligence and and especially TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS to foreign entities for decades. Whey you have no loyalty to your country, everything is potentially for sale.
Congress will do NOTHING, as always — because
THEY are involved in TREASON.
Just like the IRS Atrocity made by THEM.
Just like the ObamaCARE Atrocity made by THEM.
Very first thing I thought when I first heard about Awan and his family doing IT work for congress. THIRTEEN YEARS he worked for DWS. How do these people ever get elected? They’re either dumber than a box of rocks or totally corrupt.
“Congressman warns Dems handed U.S. secrets to Pakistanis “
Click-bait!
Please refrain from repeating fake news particularly when the original source is WND!
What is with the freedom of DWS? She should be in the hoose-gow with Clinton.
It really irks me that people like those two get off scott free and little old ladies and hungry women with children can’t shop life food without being hustled off like common criminals.
Where is the justice and where is fairness, honesty, and any other moral value? Most of us still have it, but those who can be bullied will go to jail for minor infractions while those who have the gold will go free...and it doesn’t matter what they have done that is against the law and immoral...Clinton, DWS, ExPOS Clinton, etc. They are all protected by their money but the bullied go to jail.
I doubt the veracity of that.
Click-bait headline from WND!
I hope has very, very good security.
Yes, this is being so swept underground, inside the FBI, and is all too mind boggling not to be a very large deal.
Sessions still sunning himself on the beach??
No matter where and or when I see reports on this story, the Seal Team 6 helicopter that was shot down killing all on board comes to mind. The Democrats who employed this guy should be charged with treason and what ever else that will hold them accountable for the Americans who died because of their IT Pakistani spy.
20 Congresscritters involved in the biggest spy ring in history and the #FakeNews Industry is as silent as the grave about it.
The Democrats have sold out The United States.
okay then, go here!
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/10/10/democrats-it-scandal-just-got-even-more-bizarre.html
I’m just the compiler, the more this info is on the web, the better chance it goes somewhere...
..everyone here can make their own assumptions..
The Democrats’ IT scandal just got even more bizarre
Frank Miniter FoxNews
Perhaps you’ve lost track of the Democrats slowly exploding IT scandal, as much of the media is doing all it can to simply ignore it away.
I’m referring to the strange case of Imran Awan, the IT aide Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., kept on her congressional payroll even after it became known he and his wife, Hina Alvi Awan, were being investigated by the Capitol Police for possible theft, fraud, moving terabytes of data off Congress’s system and more.
Imran Awan was back in court last week. When pushed, Assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Mirando revealed some telling things about this case.
First, I should note that it was standing room only in the packed courtroom at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Friday morning ... okay, just kidding, actually, only a few reporters sat in the mostly empty wooden benches in the back of the courtroom. Anyone who didn’t know this was the latest scene in a slowly exploding political scandal would have thought this was only a forgettable bank fraud case.
The deeper you dig the more it becomes clear this case is about much more than bank fraud.
Awan’s attorney, Chris Gowen, even told me: “This case is hardly newsworthy.”
But before the show started, Imran’s wife, Hina Alvi Awan, entered the courtroom. She had flown away to Pakistan with their children soon after the investigation became known.
Was she back as part of a plea deal?
While Hina Alvi was gone, on August 17, 2017, a federal grand jury indicted her and Awan on four counts, including conspiracy and conspiring to obtain home equity loans for $165,000 and $120,000 from the Wright Patman Congressional Federal Credit Union and then transferring the money to Pakistan. (Read the FBI’s criminal affidavit on the bank fraud here and you’ll see why the government thinks it has a strong case.)
Imran Awan is considered such a flight risk that his passport was taken, he was given a curfew and was fitted with a tracking device.
Meanwhile, Hina Alvi’s passport was also publicly taken during the court hearing, but she was officially listed as a “walk in,” a tracking device wasn’t attached to her ankle and the government had asked the court to quash an outstanding warrant for her arrest.
Now came the revelations. Gowen, Imran’s attorney, asked that Imran’s travel restrictions be removed.
This prompted Assistant U.S. Attorney Mirando to say that when Imran was arrested at Dulles International Airport a cellphone found on him “had been wiped clean just a few hours before.”
Gowen tried to counter this by saying, “Awan had recently bought the phone, so of course it didn’t have any data on it.”
But Mirando was ready. He said the FBI found that the phone had been wiped as clean as Hillary’s server. A time stamp on the iPhone indicated it had been wiped at 6:30 p.m. that evening. Also, Imran did have a laptop on him, but one of the few things on it was a resume. Mirando used this and other details—such as the Awans quickly selling many of their Virginia properties—to explain that Imran had no intention of returning.
In another twist, Gowen brought up a computer that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz wants back so badly she actually threatened the chief of the Capitol Police in a public hearing with “consequences” if she didn’t get it back.
Gowen argued that the computer and documents seized in a bag left in a public area of a congressional building around midnight on April 6, 2017, are “protected by attorney-client privilege.” Gowen hopes to remove this evidence from future court proceedings.
Gowen, however, didn’t answer what Imran was doing in the Longworth congressional building late at night and long after he’d been fired by every Democrat aside from Rep. Wasserman Schultz (Wasserman Schultz’s office isn’t in Longworth).
The deeper you dig the more it becomes clear this case is about much more than bank fraud. Capitol Police are investigating possible theft of congressional computer equipment, massive amounts of data moved off the congressional system, alleged fake computer data created to throw investigators off the trail, and data mined by the Awans that could include emails from many members of Congress and more.
Rep. Wasserman Schultz, who lost her post at the DNC when WikiLeaks published emails showing that under her leadership the DNC worked to sabotage Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign, might be exposed to even more revelations.
Meanwhile, Congress has been asked to open an ethics investigation to answer why Rep. Wasserman Schultz kept Imran on her payroll even after the Capitol Police investigation became known.
So does this sound like a small bank fraud story to you or is it more likely that a lot more is going on here?
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