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Congress IT Probe Suspects Had Massive Debts, Years Of Suspicious Activity
The Daily Caller ^ | February 7, 2017 | By Luke Rosiak

Posted on 02/07/2017 11:54:49 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

Four people who worked for the House of Representatives have a history of massive debts and bankruptcy, a fondness for fast cars and real estate, and unusually complicated webs of intertwined finances.

The three brothers and a wife of one of them are under criminal investigation into sensitive congressional information security.

Chiefs of staff for dozens of Democratic lawmakers who employed the four were informed last week that a criminal probe was underway into their use of congressional information technology systems, including the existence of an external server to which House data was being funneled, and into the theft of and overbilling for computer equipment.

Brothers Imran, Abid, and Jamal Awan and Hina Alvi, Imran’s wife, each made $160,000 a year as information technology workers for the House. Their salaries and time were shared among dozens of Democratic members, including former Democratic National Committee Chairman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida. The lawmakers also include members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Despite the generous salaries, the four were involved in multiple suspicious mortgage transfers and a debt-evading bankruptcy. Abid had more than $1 million in debts following a failed business called Cars International that he ran in Falls Church, Va., from November 2009 to September 2010. Business associates said in court documents that Abid had stolen money and vehicles from them. . .

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TOPICS: Extended News; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: abidawan; automobiles; autos; cardealer; cars; carsinternational; carsintl; congressitgate; democrats; fallschurch; fallschurchcell; hinaalvi; imranawan; itgate; jamalawan; muslimitgate; pakistanis; ratitgate; server
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To: Lurker

Four brothers. Muslims sure do spawn a lot of new Muslims. One would almost guess it was purposeful...


21 posted on 02/08/2017 4:37:14 AM PST by ez ("Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is." - Milton)
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To: hoosiermama

The government is just full of crooks. I hope they are all shaking.

For years, we have talked about “Hillary’s FBI files” and the “leverage” people seem to have over Justice Roberts. Other Republicans seem “compromised” in some fashion.

Well, the shoe is now on the other foot. Either a lot of people will go to jail — or a lot of people are going to become extremely cooperative with President Trump and his agenda to Make America Great Again.


22 posted on 02/08/2017 4:37:35 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: Liz

The article doesn’t list any Republicans as employing these guys. Do you have another link?

Fraudsters and schemers. Were they funneling money to some ‘charity’ instead of paying their bills? Surely they are not still working for any of these lawmakers.........


23 posted on 02/08/2017 4:41:33 AM PST by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: Liz

Massive security breach and not a peep of this from the usual suspects in the media.


24 posted on 02/08/2017 4:50:28 AM PST by TADSLOS (Reset Underway!)
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To: Telepathic Intruder

The question is who the hell gave these people access?


25 posted on 02/08/2017 4:51:49 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: outinyellowdogcountry
The article doesn’t list any Republicans as employing these guys. Do you have another link?

Oops, you forgot to add "sarcasm."

Surely they are not still working for any of these Democrat lawmakers.........

Again....you forgot to add "sarcasm."

26 posted on 02/08/2017 4:51:51 AM PST by Liz
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To: Liz

Tie these guys to our recent dead Seal and the charge becomes Treason. A speedy trial and a number of executions would be a nice message. We aren’t f**king around anymore.


27 posted on 02/08/2017 4:54:35 AM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: TADSLOS
None of the usual MSM tripe b/c it's all about the Democrats' collusion and treachery.....and rank stupidity

The Democrats' shady IT staffers are the "in" bunch......in with all the people plotting to kill Americans.

Or maybe the gullible media believes the stolen IT and equipment was sold and the proceeds used to help them have "a better life."

28 posted on 02/08/2017 5:00:48 AM PST by Liz
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To: Telepathic Intruder

> The question is, what were they doing with the data they stole?

Probably the same thing that Huma was probably doing...getting rich selling it. I imagine we are going to find out that there were Muslims planted in Obama’s administration everywhere that were leaking information to our Muslim enemies continuously the past 8 years. Probably selected by Obama and ValJar themselves.


29 posted on 02/08/2017 5:02:42 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: wastoute

The brothers seemed to be practiced con artists....so they fit right into Democrats scheme of things.


30 posted on 02/08/2017 5:04:31 AM PST by Liz
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To: Liz

Well sarcasm to the last comment for sure. But I am looking for info about Republicans they worked for directly. Maybe I missed that sentence in the story which is possible this day. Unless you are meaning indirect employment or something?


31 posted on 02/08/2017 5:06:39 AM PST by outinyellowdogcountry
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To: All
THIS NEEDS TO BE HIGHLIGHTED----It’s unclear how Abid found time to run a business---buying and selling used cars----while working IT full-time for Democrats in Congress. A congressional credit union repossessed two of his personal cars before the business folded. He's been on the congressional payroll since 2005.

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HAT TIP DAILY CALLER--Despite the generous salaries, the four brothers were involved in multiple suspicious mortgage transfers and a debt-evading bankruptcy. Abid had more than $1 million in debts following a failed Virginia business. Business associates said in court documents that Abid had stolen money and vehicles from them.

32 posted on 02/08/2017 5:15:16 AM PST by Liz
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To: Lurker

What’s unbelievable is that every politician becomes a multi-millionaire while being paid a government salary. I guess they’re just really good at saving their money eh? Seems that almost all of them find some way to divert taxpayer money into their pockets whether it be a green start-up company or influence peddling for dollars (like McLame big time with the military contracts). If Trump wants D.C. to cleanup it’s act he’s going to have to work harder at stopping the politicians access (schemes) to federal funding (if that’s even possible). Stopping them from becoming lobbyists, at least for some time, would help. Trump’s certainly got his work cut out for him. No wonder so many politicians want him impeached. He should look for corruption from the Dems (and GOP) who are whining the loudest for it.


33 posted on 02/08/2017 5:18:44 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: ez
> Four brothers. Muslims sure do spawn a lot of new Muslims. One would almost guess it was purposeful...

I imagine they're just the tip of the iceberg. No telling who Johnson and John Brennan have been in contact with and they are / were really high up on the food chain with access to very high level intelligence that would be extremely harmful if handed over to our Muslim enemies who wish to do us harm.

34 posted on 02/08/2017 5:24:18 AM PST by jsanders2001
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Brothers Imran, Abid, and Jamal Awan and Hina Alvi, Imran’s wife, each made $160,000 a year as information technology workers shared among dozens of Democratic members, including former Democratic National Committee Chairman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Democrat-Florida)....and Democrat members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs.

GAMETIME---GUESS THE STUPIDITY LEVEL OF THIS GUY--- Jack Langer, spokesman for the intelligence committee, said the committee office has its own IT staff and security measures and classified information from the panel is not allowed to be sent to members’ personal offices.

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<><> The spox for one of their employer's Rep. Joaquin Castro, Democrat of Texas, told The DAIY CALLER Friday that Jamal’s “employment with our office has been terminated.”

<><> Hilarie Chambers, a spokeswoman for Democrat Rep. Sandy Levin — who employed Abid — told TheDCNF that “after being notified by the House Administration Committee, this individual was removed from our payroll. We are confident that everything in our office is secure.”

UT OH

<><> .... some Democrats have not terminated their connection with the four, including Democrat Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who employs Imran (she resigned from her DNC post last year after a computer hack revealed embarassing emails).

<><>Derrick Robinson, spokesman for California Democrat Rep. Karen Bass, refused to comment on Alvi’s employment status.

hat tip Daily Caller

35 posted on 02/08/2017 5:25:43 AM PST by Liz
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To: TADSLOS
> Massive security breach and not a peep of this from the usual suspects in the media.

Are you kidding?! They're probably cheering all the Muslim traitors on. I used to wonder why the MSM tried so hard to deceive or mislead the public. Then I came across an article that listed who the owners of much of we're or those who were stockholders and found that almost all are hardcore leftists and that Soros has his hand in a substantial number of them. If you want to hear the truth you're going to have to hear it from an overseas source or someone who sets up a new news reporting media that reports true and factual information and even then the other MSM will try their best to kill off their competition by lying about them. The current MSM needs to be put down and exposed for who and what they really are to the public.

36 posted on 02/08/2017 5:32:44 AM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Liz

Maybe that’s why Di liked Trump’s SC nominee—she’s trying to sell her vote in order to stay out of trouble?


37 posted on 02/08/2017 5:39:25 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: All
THIS JUST IN---Last year, eight members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence issued a demand that their staffers be granted access to top secret classified information.

The signatories to the letter were all Democrats:

<><> Andre Carson,

<><>Luis Guiterez,

<><>Jim Himes,

<><>Terri Sewell,

<><>Jackie Speier,

<><>Mike Quigley,

<><> Eric Swalwell

<<< and Patrick Murphy.

Some signatories had a history of attempting to undermine national security. Two of them have been linked to another emerging security breach.

hat tip Daniel Greenfield

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The office of Andre Carson, the second Muslim in Congress, had employed Imran Awan. As did the offices of Jackie Speier and Debbie Wasserman Schultz; to whom the letter had been addressed.

All three of the Pakistani brothers had been employed by Democrats. The offices that employed them included HPSCI minority members Speier, Carson and Joaquín Castro. Congressman Castro, who also sits on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, utilized the services of Jamal Moiz Awan. Speier and Carson’s offices utilized Imran Awan.

Abid A. Awan was employed by Lois Frankel and Ted Lieu: members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. Also on the committee is Castro. As is Robin Kelly whose office employed Jamal Awan. Lieu also sits on the subcommittees on National Security and Information Technology of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

Tammy Duckworth’s office had also employed Abid. Before Duckworth successfully played on the sympathy of voters to become Senator Tammy Duckworth, she had been on the Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Forces of the Armed Services Committee.

Gwen Graham, who had also been on the Armed Services Committee and on the Tactical Air and Land Forces subcommittee, had employed Jamal Awan.

Jamal was also employed by Cedric Richmond’s office. Richmond sits on the Committee on Homeland Security and on its Terrorism and Cybersecurity subcommittee. He is a ranking member of the latter subcommittee.

Also employing Jamal was Mark Takano of the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.

Imran had worked for the office of John Sarbanes who sits on the House Energy and Commerce Committee that oversees, among other things, the nuclear industry.

Other members of the Committee employing the brothers included Yvette Clarke, who also sits on the Bipartisan Encryption Working Group, Diana DeGette, Dave Loebsack and Tony Cardenas.

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38 posted on 02/08/2017 5:48:08 AM PST by Liz
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Unscrupulous people with lots of debt are prime targets for blackmail.


39 posted on 02/08/2017 5:51:04 AM PST by randita (PLEASE STOP ALL THE WORTHLESS VANITIES!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Unscrupulous people with lots of debt are prime targets for blackmail.


40 posted on 02/08/2017 5:51:05 AM PST by randita (PLEASE STOP ALL THE WORTHLESS VANITIES!)
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