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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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But finally there’s Andre Carson.....the second Muslim in Congress and the first Muslim on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and, more critically, is the ranking member on its Emerging Threats Subcommittee. He is also a member of the Department of Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture Subcommittee.

The Emerging Threats Subcommittee, of which Carson is a ranking member, is responsible for much of counterterrorism oversight. It is the worst possible place for a man with Carson’s credentials.

Carson had inherited his grandmother’s seat and exploited it to promote a radical Islamist agenda. He has interfaced with a laundry list of Islamist groups from CAIR to ISNA to ICNA to MPAC. Islamists have funded Carson’s career to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars.

The Center for Security Policy has put together a dossier of Carson’s connections to the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood is the parent organization of many key Islamic terror groups posing a threat to our national security including Al Qaeda and Hamas.

Andre Carson shared the stage at a CAIR banquet with Sirraj Wahaj: an unindicted co-conspirator in the World Trade Center bombing who had once declared,” You don’t get involved in politics because it’s the American thing to do. You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.” CAIR itself had been named an unindicted co-conspirator in terror finance.

Carson had praised Tariq Ramadan who had been barred from this country for funding Islamic terrorists. And the Muslim politician was a co-sponsor of the Free Syria Act which attempted to aid Islamist Jihadists in Syria linked to the Muslim Brotherhood such as the Free Syrian Army.

The presence of Andre Carson on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the Emerging Threats Subcommittee has always been extremely controversial.

But this latest breach involving Democrats on this committee and on other key national security committees raises serious questions about the scale and magnitude of the real problem caused by a compromised congress.

While Carson and other HPSCI Democrats had been demanding security clearance for their staffers, three Pakistani Muslims working for them appear to have compromised security to an unknown degree. (hat tip Daniel Greenfield)

MORE AT http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265729/muslim-brotherhood-security-breach-congress-daniel-greenfield

41 posted on 02/08/2017 5:52:34 AM PST by Liz
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To: hoosiermama
Wouldn't surprise me if there was and their exorbitant salaries were really a personal payoff at taxpayer expense.
42 posted on 02/08/2017 5:55:48 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: Liz
"Abid has a prior criminal record and a bankruptcy."

He could be the greatest IT guy in the world, but certain industries, ( Banking, Investments and my guess Aerospace / Defense, although if he is a Green-Card guy, they never would have hired him period ) the bankruptcy alone will get you fired as a temp or never hired at all, they can find the bankruptcy by doing a credit check, the smart Corps did that 20 and 30 years ago as a way weeding out and getting prime candidates.

43 posted on 02/08/2017 5:57:00 AM PST by taildragger (Do you hear the people singing? The Song of Angry Men!....)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

btt


44 posted on 02/08/2017 5:59:17 AM PST by KSCITYBOY (The media is corrupt)
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To: taildragger

But, but....Democrats are so “tolerant and compassionate”.

Hiring a guy that had bankruptcies made them feel so good about themselves.


45 posted on 02/08/2017 6:06:26 AM PST by Liz
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BACKSTORY---SOURCE: Risk Management
Volume/issue Vol. 56, No. 10
Publication date December 2009
TITLE: Security Breach on Capitol Hill / By Wade, Jared

Article excerpt: In October 2009, a data breach on Capitol Hill that revealed the names of at least eight lawmakers being investigated for ethics violations called into question the cybersecurity policies that exist for Congress and led House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to pledge an "immediate and comprehensive assessment" of how the entire legislative body handles sensitive data.

Generally, the House ethics committee does not reveal the names of representatives involved in preliminary investigations in order to protect them from unfairly being associated with impropriety.

But representatives Maxine Waters (D-CA), Laura Richardson (D-CA) and up to six others were identified as targets of committee probes after a junior staffer improperly uploaded an internal document to a peer-to-peer file-sharing network, making it accessible to virtually anyone.

Experts believe the file was downloaded by users in Washington, New York and even as far away as London, and the leak became public after the Washington Post published the news.

The staffer responsible was fired soon thereafter, but that provided little solace for lawmakers whose reputations can be clouded by even the specter of investigation. …

REPORTED BY https://www.questia.com/magazine/1G1-213224519/security-breach-on-capitol-hill

46 posted on 02/08/2017 6:27:06 AM PST by Liz
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To: Brad from Tennessee

All of them are members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265729/muslim-brotherhood-security-breach-congress-daniel-greenfield


47 posted on 02/08/2017 6:31:25 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper (Rest In Peace MeekMom (1966-2016))
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To: Liz

I thought it was Pelosi’s husband that was getting the huge government contracts. Is it both of them?

Build more prisons.


48 posted on 02/08/2017 6:55:33 AM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: generally

Pelosi has been publicly accused of using inside info on bills to personally profit.

Her husband no doubt is the facilitator of these lucrative deals.


49 posted on 02/08/2017 6:57:27 AM PST by Liz
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

Those names don’t sound Russian to me. lol
I thought it was all....the Russians!


50 posted on 02/08/2017 7:11:02 AM PST by sheana
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.

John Harington

51 posted on 02/08/2017 7:20:14 AM PST by mewzilla (I'll vote for the first guy who promises to mail in his SOTU addresses.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
"Islamophobia"? There's obviously not nearly enough of it in this country and certainly not in the feral gubmint!

These Democrats need to be stripped of their security clearances and prosecuted for compromising national security.

52 posted on 02/08/2017 7:38:00 AM PST by Gritty (Journalism is about covering important stories. With a pillow, until they stop moving. - Iowahawk)
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To: lonevoice

Unreal.


53 posted on 02/08/2017 8:05:58 AM PST by Pride in the USA
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To: Brad from Tennessee
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 over-billing for computer equipment.

Well, we've got an FBI and soon we'll have an honest person running the DOJ... so with any luck this kind of democrat crap will stop.

54 posted on 02/08/2017 10:20:29 AM PST by GOPJ ("CHRISTIAN BAN" DURING WORLD WAR II: GERMANS AND ITALIANS STOPPED FROM IMMIGRATING TO U.S.)
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To: dp0622

Time to make a deal with these guy. Your life will be spared in exchange for turning on your Demoncrat bosses.


55 posted on 02/08/2017 11:48:37 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings)
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To: randita

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

Blackmail? They were likely salaried employees of FSB, ISI or PRC Intelligence. Or all three. Or they auctioned the info off to the likes of ISIL, Iran or Nork to feed their offshore accounts.

The big question is where are all these scoundrels and their families right now? And their money.?


56 posted on 02/08/2017 2:53:01 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: Liz
foreign nationals who worked within the IT department for members of the House Permanent Intelligence Committee

Hiring foreign nationals doing IT for this committee is beyond stupid. It is criminal.

57 posted on 02/08/2017 3:01:12 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: LucyT

ITGATE

#38

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.

read more

http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3522538/posts?page=38#38


58 posted on 02/08/2017 6:00:16 PM PST by Whenifhow
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To: CardCarryingMember.VastRightWC

Wonder why Google went berserk over the immigration pause.. i am just so tired of hearing democratson the news saying, ok we were wrong it wasn’t the Russians.


59 posted on 02/09/2017 2:52:43 AM PST by momincombatboots (Pray for Sky, 20, two gunshots to abdomen, college student, hostess, easy prey n transformed US)
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To: hoosiermama
Ya don’t suppose the DNC computers had porn or child porn on them do ya? Naw! Couldn’t be ! /s

DNC got too comfortable being 'government' and never considered the notion they would ever have to account for their devious, deceptive and most likely criminal works. But, obviously they sure were not willing to give FBI access to their inner circles. This child porn stuff is as bad as a human being can go. I literally get nauseated and cannot spend much time on the subject. What does give me comfort is that our Heavenly Father keeps the only record that counts, and there will be a day of accounting.

60 posted on 02/09/2017 5:41:00 AM PST by Just mythoughts
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