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Introduction: Overview and recap articles: (Scroll down for timely news, or click here.) Why is the Democrats' bizarre IT scandal being ignored? While the focus in Washington, D.C. remains centered on the Mueller Russia probe, we cannot lose sight of another ongoing investigation on Capitol Hill. At the center of this developing scandal are the nefarious actions of a former Democratic congressional IT aide indicted last year on bank fraud charges, who at the time was being paid by a high-profile member of Congress although he was barred from the House computer systems. While the case has not received a lot of mainstream media attention, the details are sordid. Not only does the case raise serious national security and obstruction of justice concerns, it also suggests a blatant cover-up on the part of the lawmakers involved.
More Evidence of Political Coverup in Dem IT Security Scandal. His name is Imran Awan and last year he was arrested on bank-fraud charges at Dulles International Airport in Washington D.C. while trying to flee to his native Pakistan. Even after getting fired by some members of Congress for stealing computers and data systems, Florida's Debbie Wasserman Schultz, then Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair, kept him and let him have access to her emails and files as well as the password to the electronic device she used for DNC business. At one point, Awan had access to the computers of dozens of members of Congress, including those on the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees. Judicial Watch has launched an investigation and is pursuing public records. The government's bizarre failure to prosecute Awan for the national security violations he appears to have committed points to a political coverup that's dangerous, craven and borders on traitorous. A House Office of Inspector General investigation determined earlier this year that Awan and his relatives committed numerous violations of House security policies, including logging into the House Democratic Caucus server thousands of times without authorization. Cybersecurity. When it comes cybersecurity scandals, as tough as Congress is on private companies like Equifax and Facebook, you might be surprised to learn that they've been quietly dealing with a scandal of their own. Some claim it's the most important investigation you've never heard of in Washington D.C. It involves the FBI, an Inspector General, 42 members of Congress, and five Pakistani American IT workers. What Did Dems Know About Dossier? Their Handling Of Imran Awan Affair Is Instructive. Rep. Keith Ellison, deputy chair of the Democratic National Committee, said he was unaware of the DNC's role in funding the Trump dossier, repeating claims from former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz and sources close to Hillary Clinton. The denial is reminiscent of Ellison's claims to have not heard of Democratic IT aide Imran Awan, despite being repeatedly informed of the major investigation involving him. In both the Awan and dossier affairs, Democratic leaders have said they did not have knowledge of major events that greatly concern them. Investigators contend that Imran Awan and his family members made unauthorized access to House servers thousands of times and funneled massive amounts of data off the network shortly before the 2016 presidential election. The Awans could potentially read the data of one in five House Democrats. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi professed unfamiliarity with the Awan investigation despite playing an important role in the handling of the case months ago as one of the House leaders who determined it warranted a criminal probe. California's Attorney General Xavier Becerra And The Awan Scandal. One aspect of the unfolding Awan scandal that has received minimal press coverage is the role played by current Atorney General of California, Xavier Beccera. With the exception of journalists like HA Goodman and Luke Rosiak, Becerra's role has gone virtually unexamined by the media. In September, the Daily Caller revealed that the Capital Police's decision to ban the Awan's from Capitol Hill was based on the existence of a "secret server". The server was connected to the House Democratic Caucus, which at the time, was chaired by Rep. Xavier Becerra, the current Attorney General of California. Police contacted Becerra's office, notifying him that the server was the subject of an ongoing investigation, and promptly requested a copy of it. However, what Capital Police received from the now California Attorney General's office was described as an, "elaborate falsified image designed to hide the massive violations." Investigating the Investigators. Apart from noting how strange and surreal it was, no one yet knows the full relationship between former Democratic National Chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her IT "expert," the now-indicted Imran Awan. Why would Wasserman-Schultz go out of her way to protect him and by extension his network from government investigations — even as Awan's criminal familial enterprises, as well as his unauthorized and perhaps illegal conduct concerning government communications, were being exposed? Why is Awan apparently eager to talk to prosecutors about his relationships with Wasserman-Schultz and other congressional representatives? Why did an "in-the-know" Wasserman-Schultz apparently allow Awan to act so illegally for so long? In other words, the behavior of the former head of the DNC seems inexplicable. Why Is This Not a Story? Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., the former Democratic National Committee chairwoman known in political circles as DWS, is knee-deep in a scandal that involves a laptop, money and possible foreign entanglements. Unlike the Trump Russian scandal, however, The Washington Post and New York Times have barely reported on the story, which has conservatives observing — with President Donald Trump's Twitter account concurring — that the mainstream media have a double standard. In February, the House sergeant-at-arms yanked House computer network access for five information technology staffers who worked as shared employees for some 30 House Democrats. Capitol Police told members that the five were under criminal investigation for possibly violating security policies — and asked members to update their security settings. By March, most Democrats had fired the five, if only because they could no longer do their jobs. How Did the Dems' IT Scandal Suspects Get Here? The public has a right to know the immigration status and history of foreign criminal suspects. Their entrance and employment sponsorship records should not be treated like classified government secrets — especially if the public's tax dollars subsidized their salaries. Where The Scandals Really Are. The central figure in this scandal is a Pakistani national named Imran Awan, who appears to be connected in some way to his country's intelligence service. Awan is an IT professional who was hired in 2004 to handle computer equipment for Florida Democrat congressman Robert Wexler, and he then picked up a job as a shared staffer to work for Wexler's colleague Debbie Wasserman Schultz. [...] And in the meantime, the Awan family was engaging in a pattern of financial activities that looked a whole lot like a mafia operation — questionable real estate deals, bank fraud, kidnapping and extortion, a used-car dealership that might well have been a front for moving stolen cars to Pakistan for sale, and so on. Awan was arrested at Dulles International Airport on Monday [7/24/2017] as he tried to flee the country while the FBI and Capitol Hill Police were closing in on a bank fraud indictment. In January he had wired some $283,000 from the Congressional Federal Credit Union to two individuals in Pakistan; he was trying to board a flight to Lahore when he had the cuffs put on him. But the real juice with the Awans isn't the bank fraud or the possible stolen cars. The real scandal here is the stolen computers — and the stolen information. It's alleged that the Awans illegally downloaded documents from their clients, some of whom were on the House Intelligence Committee and other sensitive committees, and even walked off with congressional computers. 12
Questions for Democrats Behind the Awan Scandal. The Pakistani Hackers Working for the DNC. Computer hacking. A senior political figure threatening law enforcement officials. Destruction of evidence. Collusion with foreign powers. Financial corruption. Incompetence. Maladministration. Hot stuff. Russia? Trump, Sr., Jr., or both? Nope. It's U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.), former head of the Democratic National Committee, Hillary Clinton groupie, and, right now, the Barbie Doll in the center of (at last!) a real scandal involving a Pakistani computer guru called Imran Awan, his wife Hina Alvi, various other family members, and the computer servers of various Democratic congressmen, including Schultz. [...] [Andrew C.] McCarthy cuts to the chase: "This is not about bank fraud. The Awan family swindles are plentiful, but they are just window-dressing. This appears to be a real conspiracy, aimed at undermining American national security." Timely news and commentary: Obama Judge Tanya Chutkan Joins the Trump Show Trial. The Jamaican-born Chutkan, a University of Pennsylvania law alum, is an appointee of the composite character David Garrow described in Rising Star: The Making of Barack Obama. Consider Chutkan's role in the case of Imran Awan. Of all the IT people in all the IT firms in all the world, House Democrats thought Imran Awan was the best man for the job. Sometimes working from his native Pakistan, Awan and his family team accessed the computers of some 40 Democrats, including those on the intelligence and foreign affairs committees. Without their consent, Awan and his team stashed the Democrats' data on a server controlled by Xavier Becerra, chair of the House Democratic Caucus and once on Hillary Clinton's short list as a running mate. Capitol Police wanted a copy of the server but the one Awan produced turned out to be a fake. I must apologize to akdart.com. The next 14 articles were belatedly discovered on Reddit a few days ago. A user at Reddit apologized for crashing akdart.com by referring a flood of traffic. I don't remember any outage, but it was almost certainly unrelated to high volume, because the site is ready for a lot more visitors than it currently enjoys. No apology is needed.Plot thickens in probe of House IT contractors. A criminal investigation into IT contractors employed by dozens of House Democrats is sparking broader concerns about continuing access to sensitive government emails, amid new allegations of illicit activity beyond Capitol Hill. The investigation was announced last month by the U.S. Capitol Police and purportedly focuses on the contractors' access to House computers and whether they took hardware and made questionable IT-related purchases. A police spokesman, while declining to go into detail, told Fox News this week that the case remains opens and focuses on "the actions of House IT support staff." Does anyone in Washington understand security? Three brothers with Middle Eastern names have been fired by House Democrats for stealing IT equipment and, possibly, hacking the system. When it was pointed out that John Podesta's choice of "password" as his password was unwise, his defenders claimed that the Russians would have breached DNC computers anyway, so "what difference did it make?" It seems that Podesta isn't the only clueless politician down in the swamp. House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs Committee Members Compromised By Rogue IT Staff. Three brothers who managed office information technology for members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and other lawmakers were abruptly relieved of their duties on suspicion that they accessed congressional computers without permission. Brothers Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives Thursday, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned. Three members of the intelligence panel and five members of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs were among the dozens of members who employed the suspects on a shared basis. The two committees deal with many of the nation's most sensitive issues and documents, including those related to the war on terrorism. Texas Rep Louie Gohmert Pushing Ryan For House IT Scandal Probe Briefing. Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert is pushing his party's leadership to hold a caucus briefing on the U.S. Capitol Police criminal investigation into the five congressional Information Technology (IT) workers suspected of stealing congressional data. "I'm circulating a letter, and we're going to ask for just that," Gohmert told The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group Thursday following a "Conversation with Conservatives" news conference. Congress needs to know more about three Pakistani brothers — Imran, Abid and Jamal Awan — and two of their associates, who are under criminal investigation for using a remote server to download and store data from congressional IT systems and over-billing taxpayers for computer equipment, Gohmert said. Investigation Into DNC Contractor's Terrorism Ties Continues. The investigation into a DNC IT contractor who may have had terrorist connections and had access to House computers and emails continues, with Capitol Police saying they're focused on "the actions of House IT support staff." At least five contractors, Imran Awan, two of his brothers and two other people, are the focus of the probe, officials told Fox News and there are definite concerns that emails were hacked. There are allegations that others are involved too, including Imran's wife, Hina Alvi. Allegedly, they removed hundreds of thousands of dollars in equipment from House offices, including computers and servers and ran a scheme where they bought equipment and overcharged the agency that makes reimbursements. DNC Staffer Being Investigated For Terrorism Ties Stays On The Payroll. An employee at the Democratic National Committee is the lead suspect in a terrorism investigation involving security breaches at the House of Representatives. Imran Awan is the top person being investigated in a criminal probe that was launched last month. Imran, who has been working for the DNC since 2005, was reportedly in possession of an iPad used by chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz at the same time the DNC's emails were leaked to WikiLeaks, The Blaze reports. Shortly after Imran was hired, four of his family members were put on the DNC payroll, along with one other friend — each of them receiving "the maximum amount of money you can make." But The Daily Caller's Luke Rosiak believes Awan's family and friends weren't actually working at the DNC — but were simply on the payroll so he could make more money. Explosive details emerge about investigation into Democrat IT staffer with terrorist ties. The Daily Caller's investigative reporter Luke Rosiak joined TheBlaze's own Dana Loesch to discuss the developing story of the DNC IT staffer with ties to terrorist organizations. Imran Awan is the lead suspect in a criminal probe into security breaches within the House of Representatives that was launched on February 2. Imran, who was hired in 2005, was reportedly in possession of an iPad used by then Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz around the time that DNC emails had been leaked to WikiLeaks. As Rosiak discusses with Loesch, soon after Imran was hired, four of his family members were put onto the payroll, as well as one friend, each making the maximum amount of money you can make. Rosiak, however, believes they were likely not working there at all, but were simply ways for Imran to make more money. House Dem IT Staffers Owed Money To Hezbollah-Connected Fugitive. Congressional aides suspected of criminally misusing their access to House computer systems owed $100,000 to an Iraqi politician who is wanted by U.S. authorities and has been linked to Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Middle Eastern terrorist outfit. Imran Awan and four of his relatives were employed as information technology (IT) aides by dozens of House Democrats, including members of the intelligence, foreign affairs and homeland security committees. The aides' administrator-level IT access was terminated earlier this month amid a criminal probe by U.S. Capitol Police of a suspected security breach, including an off-site server housing congressional data. The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has reported that while working for Congress, the Pakistani brothers controlled a limited liability corporation called Cars International A (CIA), a car dealership with odd finances, which took — and was unable to repay — a $100,000 loan from Dr. Ali Al-Attar. Brothers Had Massive Debts, Years Of Suspicious Activity. 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. House Dem IT Guys In Security Probe Secretly Took $100K In Iraqi Money. Rogue congressional staffers took $100,000 from an Iraqi politician while they had administrator-level access to the House of Representatives' computer network, according to court documents examined by The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group. The money was a loan from Dr. Ali al-Attar, an Iraqi political figure, and was funneled through a company with "impossible"-to-decipher financial transactions that the congressional information technology (IT) staffers controlled. Imran Awan, ringleader of the group that includes his brothers Abid and Jamal, has provided IT services since 2005 for Florida Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairwoman. The brothers are from Pakistan. Pakistani Suspects In House IT Probe Received $4 Million From Dem Reps. Five members of a Pakistani family under criminal investigation for allegedly misusing their positions as computer administrators for dozens of Democrats in the House of Representatives were paid at least $4 million from July 2009 to the present, The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group has learned. Evidence suggests some of the dozens of House Democrats — many of whom serve on the intelligence, homeland security and foreign affairs committees — who employed the suspects were inexplicably paying people they rarely or never saw. See the interactive graphic at the end of this story for the names of the employing representatives. The suspects had full access to the emails and office computer files of the members for whom they worked. A focus of the investigation by the U.S. Capitol Police is an off-site server on which congressional data was allegedly loaded without the knowledge of authorities. House Staffers In Security Probe Allegedly Kept Stepmom In 'Captivity' To Access Offshore Cash. 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. Suspect In House IT Security Probe Also Had Access To DNC Emails. Imran Awan — the lead suspect in a criminal probe into breaches of House of Representatives information security systems — possessed the password to an iPad used by then-Democratic National Committee Chairperson Debbie Wasserman Schultz when DNC emails were given to WikiLeaks, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned. Wasserman Schultz resigned the DNC post in the wake of WikiLeaks posting damaging internal emails, blaming the scandal on hacking by Russians. Imran and his family members, all of whom worked as IT professionals for members of Congress, were banned from the House network Feb. 2, 2017, by the House Sergeant at Arms, but Wasserman Schultz has declined to fire him and circumvented the ban by having him "advise" her office. House Hacking Suspects Could Read Every Email Dozens Of Congressmen Sent And Received. Congressional IT staffers who are the subject of a criminal investigation into misusing their positions had full access to members' "correspondence, emails, confidential files," and there was almost no tracking of what they did, a former House technology worker said. Imran Awan bullied central IT to bend the rules for him so there wouldn't be a paper trail about the unusually high permissions he was requesting. And their actions were not logged, so members have no way of knowing what information they may have taken, the central IT employee said. Awan ran technology for multiple House Democrats, and soon four of his relatives — including brothers Abid and Jamal — appeared on the payroll of dozens of other members, collecting $4 million in taxpayer funds since 2010. Biden's HHS Pick Becerra Collaborated With Dems' Mystery IT Man Imran Awan. The Senate has voted to confirm Xavier Becerra, Joe Biden's pick to head the federal Department of Health and Human Services. [...] Rep. Becerra, once on Hillary Clinton's short list as a running mate, headed the House Democratic Caucus and was in charge of its server. The Democrat's IT man Imran Awan had access to that computer, and that was a problem. DNC boss Debbie Wasserman Schultz not only brought Awan aboard but hired his wife and other family members, though none had degrees in information technology. The unvetted Awan could not possibly have qualified for a security clearance but he enjoyed access to the computers of 45 members of Congress, including members the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs committees. When investigators from the Capitol Police requested the server under Becerra's control, they got only false information. Becerra, reportedly in line for a key post on the House Ways and Means Committee, bolted for California, where Gov. Jerry Brown tapped him for attorney general. In that role, Becerra upheld sanctuary policies and filed more than 100 lawsuits against the Trump administration, at a cost of $41 million. DCNF Reporter Luke Rosiak Digs Deeper Into Imran Awan IT Scandal And It's Not Good News For Democrats. Daily Caller News Foundation reporter Luke Rosiak said Democrats exhibited terrible judgement in the wake of the House IT scandal Monday on Fox Business and questioned why they still haven't taken action. The Awan brothers — who worked as IT aides for many Democratic members of Congress, including Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz — have been the focus of an investigation into security practices on Capitol Hill. The brothers were not given background checks before being given access to highly sensitive government information and no explanations have been given as to why. Imran Awan Sues Daily Caller, Regnery Publishers. "The former House information technology staffer whose proximity to Democratic Party leadership made him a linchpin of conspiracy theories pushed by Republicans up to the President is suing a conservative news outlet and its reporter for defamation," CNN reported on January 29. The former staffer is Imran Awan, who worked for "Democratic House members, including Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who served as the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee through much of the run-up to the 2016 election." Awan is not quoted in the story but his attorney Deepak Gupta told CNN, "When our media discourse veers away from facts and towards xenophobic conspiracies, real people are going to get caught in the crosshairs. That's what happened here." On the other hand, even casual observers might wonder if there was more to the story. The Democrat Data App. When the computer records of 44 Congressional Democrats fell into the hands of Pakistani spies (the Awan family), Democrats made sure it was not investigated. Democrat Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz made sure the FBI and the Capitol Police never really got to the bottom of the scandal. The case was closed with a sweetheart plea deal in 2018. That is how things work in the Washington D.C. swamp when sensitive data is mishandled by Democrats. No real criminal investigation. No subpoenas, no enterprise journalism, no media crusades, no "talking truth to power." The Daily Caller Sued Over 'Relentless,' 'Xenophobic' House IT 'Conspiracy Theories'. A former House information-technology staffer who became the center of fevered right-wing conspiracy theories about espionage and extortion filed a lawsuit Tuesday against The Daily Caller, alleging the conservative website defamed him and his relatives. The 23-page complaint from former Democratic IT staffer Imran Awan was filed Tuesday afternoon in D.C. Superior Court. Awan and the other plaintiffs — his wife, two of his brothers, and a friend, all of whom worked with Awan in Democratic House IT services — named as defendants The Daily Caller, the nonprofit Daily Caller News Foundation, DCNF reporter Luke Rosiak, and conservative publisher Regnery, which published a 2019 book Rosiak wrote about Awan. The Daily Caller was founded in 2010 by Fox News host Tucker Carlson. The Awans' lawsuit accused the defendants of both defamation and intentional infliction of emotional distress, subjecting them to "a relentless, xenophobic campaign of defamatory attacks." Scandal Reopens? Court Papers On Democrat IT Aide Imran Awan Make New Revelation. The Department of Justice said this month that it could not release records on Democrat technology aide Imran Awan due to "technical difficulties," but later admitted in court documents that it could not release records on him because there is a secret ongoing case related to the matter. "Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit Nov. 7, 2018, for 7,000 pages of Capitol Police records related to the cybersecurity investigation, and Aug. 2, the DOJ agreed to begin producing records by Nov. 5," Daily Caller News Foundation investigative reporter Luke Rosiak reported. "That deadline came and went with no records being produced; on a Nov. 13 phone call, the DOJ said 'technical difficulties' had resulted in a delay, Judicial Watch stated in a court filing." Unsolved from Obama era: Court finally to probe Democrats' IT scandal. A court hearing has been scheduled for Friday in an unsolved Obama-era scandal involving the brothers hired by House Democrats who were fired when one was identified as "an ongoing and serious risk to the House of Representatives." That was when a computer server containing evidence had gone "missing," noted Washington watchdog Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking information on the Awan brothers case[.] "The Awan Brothers IT scandal implicates national security and involves a cover-up by House Democrat leadership and, now, the Deep State DOJ," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. Judicial Watch launched a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in 2018 after the FBI declined to respond adequately to two separate FOIA requests. Sentencing in House Democratic IT scandal lets Imran Awan off with only a slap on the wrist. Tuesday [8/21/2018] was a lucky day for Imran Awan, the former IT administrator for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla. A federal judge sentenced him to three months of supervised release and no fine for one count of bank fraud — sparing him any jail time. Awan could have faced much more serious charges and a long prison sentence if he had been tried and convicted on accusations that he ran a spy ring inside Congress and stole congressional computer equipment. Yet stunningly, Awan was not charged with those crimes. Instead, federal prosecutors ignored their own compelling evidence implicating him in the spy ring and exonerated him. Former Democratic IT staffer Imran Awan avoids jail time. A former House Democratic IT staffer associated with ex-Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz was sentenced Tuesday to three months of supervised release along with time served after he pleaded guilty last month to lying on a bank loan application. During Imran Awan's sentencing hearing in D.C., U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan condemned the "unbelievable onslaught of scurrilous media attacks" and "baseless accusations" that were "lobbed at [Awan] from the highest branches of government," according to CNN. Judge Gives No Jail Time To Imran Awan, Attorney Claims He Was Building 'Women's Shelter'. A federal judge declined to give jail time to former Democratic IT aide Imran Awan Tuesday, saying he has "suffered enough" at the hands of politicians "at the highest levels of government." In addition, the Department of Justice said it did not find any evidence that supported criminal charges. Imran choked back tears, saying, "We want to thank the prosecution, the FBI and the Capitol Police," while his lawyer submitted a letter referring to President Donald Trump, Sen. Chuck Grassley and other Republications as "deranged," "pathetic" and "without a shred of decency." Sentencing in House Democratic IT scandal lets Imran Awan off with only a slap on the wrist. Tuesday [8/21/2018] was a lucky day for Imran Awan, the former IT administrator for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla. A federal judge sentenced him to three months of supervised release and no fine for one count of bank fraud — sparing him any jail time. Awan could have faced much more serious charges and a long prison sentence if he had been tried and convicted on accusations that he ran a spy ring inside Congress and stole congressional computer equipment. Yet stunningly, Awan was not charged with those crimes. Instead, federal prosecutors ignored their own compelling evidence implicating him in the spy ring and exonerated him. Attorney: Former IT Aide Imran Awan Deserves No Jail Time Because Trump, Republicans Were Mean. An attorney filed a sentencing memo on behalf of former House IT aide Imran Awan, claiming that President Donald Trump, other Republicans, and "conspiratorial media" attacks serve as a sufficient substitute for jail time for his client's bank fraud conviction. Attorney Chris Gowen, a former aide to Hillary Clinton, argued to Judge Tanya Chutkan, a President Barack Obama-appointee, that Imran should be spared jail, in part because of Trump, who engaged in "incoherent rambling" about the former IT aide. "Considering ... the conduct of several government officials, including the president of the United States, Imran Awan respectfully requests this court to sentence him to time served with a fine of $4,004," Gowen wrote in the sentencing memo filed Wednesday [8/15/2018]. Trump Brings Up Pakistani Imran Awan During Helsinki Presser. President Donald Trump and President Vladimir Putin held a joint press conference Monday in Helsinki, Finland. The President brought up Hillary Clinton's 33,000 missing emails, the DNC server and Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Pakistani IT staffer, Imran Awan. "What happened to the server? What happened to the servers of the Pakistani gentlemen that worked on the DNC. Where are those servers?" President Trump asked. "They're missing. Where are they? What happened to Hillary Clinton's emails? 33,000 emails gone!" Trump continued. To this day, the FBI has never done a forensic examination of the DNC server so we have no proof it was even hacked, and if hacked by whom? Questions Linger in the House IT Scandal. There's stench rising from the House side of the Capitol this week, and no, it's not just the usual smell of D.C. in the oppressive summer heat. A months-long probe into a growing House cybersecurity scandal has reached an ignominious end, leaving questions unanswered, substantiated allegations unresolved, and a growing unease with just how easily members of Congress can influence the direction of an investigation that involves themselves. DOJ Agrees Not To Prosecute Imran Awan For House Cybersecurity And Theft, But Questions Remain. An assistant US attorney said Tuesday he would not prosecute Imran Awan, a former systems administrator for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other Democrats, for any crimes on Capitol Hill in a plea agreement that had him plead guilty to one count of bank fraud. Only one person sat at the prosecutors' table: J.P. Coomey, who unsuccessfully prosecuted New Jersey Democrat Sen. Bob Menendez for corruption and was only added to the case Monday. There was no sign of Michael Marando, who had previously led the prosecution. Coomey did not object to the removal of Awan's GPS monitor, said he would not oppose a sentence of probation, and agreed to drop charges against his wife, fellow former systems administrative Hina Alvi. Media Ignore Dem Staffer Found Guilty of Bank Fraud. A Democratic aide is arrested while attempting to flee the country, ultimately pled guilty to felony charges, and an investigation found that he violated numerous standards of conduct imposed on House employees. Sound like a news story? In the two days since former Democratic House IT aide Imran Awan pleaded guilty to bank fraud, no broadcast news outlet has bothered to report on the story. This lack of coverage reflects the media's historic disinterest in case. [The Politicized] Justice Department covers up possible spy ring scandal in Democratic congressional offices. In an incredible sweetheart plea deal, Imran Awan[,] a former IT aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and other congressional Democrats[,] pleaded guilty Tuesday [7/3/2018] to one count of making a false statement on a home equity loan. I sat flabbergasted in the courtroom in Washington as the plea agreement was entered. I spent the last year interviewing hundreds of people and chasing leads for my upcoming book, titled "Spies in Congress," about the alleged spy ring believed led by Awan that may have operated in the offices of more than 40 Democratic members of Congress. If not for my extensive research on this case, I might have assumed the government just couldn't find enough evidence to make a solid case against Awan on more serious charges than bank fraud. The Potomac Two-Step: Imran Awan Allowed To Escape any Charges That Would Implicate Congress. Imran Awan pleaded guilty today [7/3/2018] to one count of bank fraud. However, all of the more serious charges; that were based on intelligence compromises and national security; and that naturally would implicate members of congress; were dropped and dispatched by federal prosecutors. Add in the date of the announcement today, when everyone is headed to a long July 4th holiday weekend, and voilà we see the all-too-familiar Potomac Two-Step. Ex-Dem IT aide Imran Awan pleads guilty to bank fraud in deal with prosecutors. Imran Awan, the former IT aide to congressional Democrats whose federal court case has drawn the interest of President Trump and other Republicans, pleaded guilty Tuesday [7/3/2018] to federal bank fraud in a plea deal where prosecutors said they "uncovered no evidence" that Awan "violated federal law with respect to the House computer systems." During a hearing before U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan in Washington, Awan pleaded guilty to making a false statement on a loan application. As part of the deal, the prosecution dropped fraud charges against Awan's wife, Hina Alvi. In Newly Obtained Memo, Congress' Top Cop Said House Democratic Caucus Server VANISHED. The memo, addressed to the Committee on House Administration (CHA) and dated Feb. 3, 2017, was recently reviewed and transcribed by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The letter bolsters TheDCNF's previous reporting about the missing server and evidence of fraud on Capitol Hill. It details how the caucus server, run by then-caucus Chairman Rep. Xavier Becerra, was secretly copied by authorities after the House Inspector General (IG) identified suspicious activity on it, but the Awans' physical access was not blocked. But after, the report reads, the server appears to have been secretly replaced with one that looked similar. The memo called for firing the Pakistani-born aides, revoking all their computer accounts, and changing the locks on any door they had access to. Democratic IT Aide Says Imran Awan Solicited Bribe From Him In Exchange For Contract With Then-Rep. Gwen Graham. Democratic IT aide Imran Awan solicited a bribe from an IT vendor in exchange for contracting opportunities with the office of then-Rep. Gwen Graham, the vendor alleged to The Daily Caller News Foundation, adding that Imran spoke to him in detail about his alleged financial fraud schemes in the House. The Department of Justice knows of the source — the longtime owner of a major House IT company — and what he is prepared to testify, a high-level official in Jeff Sessions' DOJ with knowledge of the investigation confirmed. But the vendor said no law enforcement ever even tried to interview them. This Could Be A Major Reason Democrats Won't Press Charges Against The Awans. Editor-in-Chief of The Daily Caller News Foundation, Chris Bedford, shed light on a hacking scandal Wednesday surrounding Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke and her possible ties to Pakistan. "These allegations bring a new kind of allegation to the whole Awan case. So far we've really been dealing with hacking and unauthorized access to networks, possibly ferreting information back to Pakistan," Bedford said on Fox Business' "Mornings With Maria." "Now we actually have people who are implicating a chief of staff for a congresswoman, Yvette Clarke. Chief of staff Shelley Davis." The IT Guy and Wasserman Schultz. [Scroll down] In 2016, the Awans caught the eye of congressional investigators. The initial allegations, contained in presentations by the House inspector general, did not look good. Rosiak, who obtained a PowerPoint summary of the presentations, reported that the Awans "made unauthorized access to congressional servers in 2016, allegedly accessing the data of members for whom they did not work, logging in as members of Congress themselves, and covering their tracks." "Excessive logons are an indication that the server is being used for nefarious purposes," the IG presentation said, "and elevated the risk that individuals could be reading and/or removing information." FBI Agent After Interviewing Clinton's IT Staffer: 'He Lied [a lot]'. The Justice Department inspector general report released Thursday [6/14/2018] revealed more personal messages between FBI agents working on the Clinton email probe that suggest a cooked outcome. The report released new messages from an FBI agent who was one of four case officers handling the "day-to-day" activities of the investigation, and one of two FBI agents who interviewed Clinton. Attkisson and Full Measure take on the Awan Scandal. While everyone else in the mainstream news media is ignoring the Awan scandal, Full Measure isn't. [Video clip] The Democrats' IT Scandal Cover-Up. Former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz subverted our democracy and interfered in the 2016 election in ways Moscow could only dream of, yet while Special Counsel Robert Mueller continues to chase Russian phantoms, the case against Wasserman Schultz and Imran Awan, the IT director she and other Congressional Democrats employed, continues to drag on despite overwhelming evidence of criminality and clear national security implications. Schultz was forced to step down after hacked emails revealed that she and the DNC had their finger on the scales and actively worked to defeat Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primaries in favor of Hillary Clinton. It's not just that Wasserman Schultz tried to shut down IT probe, it's that the server went missing after. Though the scandal surrounding former Democrat information technology aide Imran Awan is just now beginning to get noticed for some reason, it's been brewing for years. The Daily Caller has been tenaciously reporting the details as the FBI has been investigating Awan and his family — all of whom were employed as server administrators for Democrats. The inspector general informed Congress two years ago that the family was suspected of illegally accessing congressional servers. It's believed Awan's family logged into the House Democrat Caucus' server 7,000 times without authorization from late 2015 to mid 2016, which incidentally coincided with the time period during which the Democrat National Committee was hacked. I'd like to give a shout
out to Dpty Asst Atty General, NSD, George Toscas. [Scroll down] Why are Awans covered up? Why is
everything redacted? Why did FBI not analyze DNC servers? How bout Crowdstrike flawed report? Answer is
simple: Sources: Wasserman Schultz Screamed At House Officials To Kill Hacking Probe, Intervened In Pakistani Criminal Matter. Ex-Democratic National Committee head Debbie Wasserman Schultz said she intervened in a Pakistani land deal involving her then — IT aide Imran Awan, according to two House employees. The dispute came after Awan's father was charged with fraud in relation to the deal, and the mysterious exertion of political influence resulted in Pakistani authorities instead targeting the elderly alleged victims, according to a local report. And when a House Office of Inspector General cybersecurity investigation found that Awan made "unauthorized access" to House servers, including the House Democratic Caucus' shortly before the election, Wasserman Schultz became "frantic, not normal," "making the rounds" to House officials in an attempt to kill the investigation, one House employee told The Daily Caller News Foundation. Trump presses DOJ: Don't let Debbie Wasserman Schultz, former Dem IT aide 'off the hook'. President Trump pressed the Justice Department on Thursday to not let a former Democratic IT aide he has dubbed "the Pakistani mystery man" and one of his former employers, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., "off the hook." A tweet from the president decried reports that Imran Awan, a Pakistani IT technician who worked for dozens of Democratic lawmakers over the years, is on the cusp of reaching a plea deal in a federal court case. "Our Justice Department must not let Awan & Debbie Wasserman Schultz off the hook. The Democrat I.T. scandal is a key to much of the corruption we see today. They want to make a "plea deal" to hide what is on their Server. Where is Server? Really bad!" Trump posted to Twitter Thursday morning [6/7/2018]. Democrats' IT scandal set to explode with possible plea deal. The curious case of Imran Awan, which sounds like an international spy thriller, is entering its third act. Awan was a congressional IT aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and he was finally fired just after he was arrested trying to fly to Pakistan last summer. Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, were charged last summer with bank fraud. They now appear poised to strike a plea deal with the Department of Justice. A plea agreement hearing is set for July 3 before U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan in Washington, Fox News reported Wednesday [6/6/2018]. Key Evidence Goes Missing: Server Belonging to Wasserman Shultz IT Worker Imran Awan Is Physically Stolen from Congress. Imran Awan worked for Debbie Wasserman Schultz for thirteen years since she came into office in 2004 as a Florida representative. Imran and his two Pakistani brothers managed the IT affairs for several Democratic government officials. They were relieved of their duties in February 2017 on suspicion that they accessed specific computer networks without permission, also known as hacking. Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives in February 2017. Imran Awan was married to two women at once, including his first cousin, as is his country's custom. Imran had his court case rescheduled recently until next month. Soon after Imran Awan's other wife called police on him, gunmen shot at her. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz' indicted former IT aide, Imran Awan, was married to two Virginia women simultaneously, and 15 days after one of them told police that Imran kept her "like a slave," gunmen shot into her family home, according to police reports filed in Pakistan. The shooting at Sumaira Siddique allegedly occurred in Pakistan in August 2016 — days after the House Inspector General informed the Committee on House Administration that Imran allegedly committed cybersecurity violations. In a report filed with the local police, Siddique's father, who owns the home, said he believed Siddique had been targeted. Indicted Muslim Congressional IT aide had two wives, kept one "like a slave". The establishment media has steadfastly ignored this story, but it just keeps getting bigger. Imran Awan and his family had access to all the emails and files of twenty percent of the Democrats in the House of Representatives. His treatment of that data is highly suspicious. And from the looks of this story and others, he is a doctrinaire Muslim with ties to Pakistan. If Republicans and conservatives had been enabling and protecting Awan, this story would have been front-page international news for months. As it is, we are likely never to discover the full extent of what happened. Wasserman Schultz Refuses to Answer Reporter's Questions About Imran Awan. Imran Awan worked for Debbie Wasserman Schultz for thirteen years since she came into office in 2004 as a Florida representative. Imran and his two Pakistani brothers managed the IT affairs for several Democratic government officials. They were relieved of their duties in February 2017 on suspicion that they accessed specific computer networks without permission, also known as hacking. Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives in February 2017. Imran Awan Allegedly Tried 'To Hid His Money' While DOJ Negotiates With Him. Embattled former Democratic IT aide Imran Awan has as recently as weeks ago attempted to get someone to create an LLC to hide the ownership of real estate, and two people to buy a $40,000 gold bar for him, sources told The Daily Caller News Foundation. This while his lawyer has told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Imran "doesn't have [anything]." "He is totally unable to work and does not have [anything]," Imran attorney Chris Gowen wrote in a Feb. 27 email to TheDCNF. Imran, who along with wife Hina Alvi worked as a server administrator for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, has been the target of an FBI investigation since the House Inspector General alleged in September 2016 that he made "unauthorized access" to House servers and systematically falsified congressional financial records. Prosecutors have charged Imran and Alvi with bank fraud related to a House retirement account and a mortgage after the FBI said Imran impersonated his wife and initiated a $300,000 wire transfer to Pakistan, claiming it was for a funeral. Capitol Police Accidentally Gave Evidence To House Hacking Suspect's Defense Attorney. The Capitol Police turned over a trove of evidence in the alleged Imran Awan House cyberbreach and theft case to the defense attorneys when they were supposed to deliver it to prosecutors instead, according to court documents and a source. And hours after The Daily Caller News Foundation asked prosecutors about the disclosure, Awan's lawyer said he had learned of the forthcoming story from a source on Capitol Hill. TheDCNF had not told anyone other than prosecutors about it. Capitol Police Accidentally Gave Evidence To House Hacking Suspect's Defense Attorney. The Capitol Police turned over a trove of evidence in the alleged Imran Awan House cyberbreach and theft case to the defense attorneys when they were supposed to deliver it to prosecutors instead, according to court documents and a source. And hours after The Daily Caller News Foundation asked prosecutors about the disclosure, Awan's lawyer said he had learned of the forthcoming story from a source on Capitol Hill. TheDCNF had not told anyone other than prosecutors about it. "The cop came to [Awan's defense attorney] Chris Gowen's office with a stack of papers ... Then he came back and said, 'I thought you guys were the other party.' He was very, very angry. But Gowen made copies," the source, who's familiar with The Awans, told TheDCNF. Witness Said Awan Wiretapped Her, Then Bank Account She Controlled Was Drained. After former Democratic IT aide Imran Awan allegedly threatened his stepmother not to talk to police, her email account was accessed in suspicious ways and a lawyer for one of Awan's brothers found out she emailed the FBI on specific dates and lashed out at her: "You're a liar, aren't you?" Days after that, a bank account the stepmother controlled was almost completely drained through a payment to Imran's brother, Abid Awan, bank records show — but she said she is too afraid to press criminal charges because she claims he has threatened her. The stepmother, Samina Gilani, also previously said Imran stole two laptops from her. Reporter Explains New Details in Dem IT Staffer Scandal. A new report could prove that President Trump was right when he tweeted about a so-called "Pakistani mystery man" who kept Democratic National Committee documents and servers out of the hands of investigators. The report, by The Daily Caller's Luke Rosiak, says that Imran Awan — the IT aide of former DNC chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) — took a laptop with him in 2017 after being banned from the House computer network for "unauthorized access to data." The report also says that Awan left the laptop, which had the username "RepDWS," "in a phone booth with a letter to prosecutors" in April 2017. Ex-Dem IT aide Imran Awan's case hit with repeated delays, as feds probe new allegations. The federal court case against Imran Awan, the former IT aide to congressional Democrats, has been hit with repeated delays over the last six months — a situation fueled by allegations in the media that, according to his attorney, have piqued the curiosity of prosecutors. Since November, a judge has postponed Awan's court hearing in U.S. District Court five times at the request of the prosecution and defense. The latest postponement came Thursday, when the judge pushed Friday's scheduled hearing to June 7. In an interview Thursday with Fox News, Awan's attorney, Christopher J. Gowen, blamed the delays on the steady stream of allegations against Awan that have been published online, especially by The Daily Caller, and pushed by President Trump and Republican members of Congress. Trump Is Right: A 'Pakistani Mystery Man' Has Documents Wasserman Schultz Didn't Want Prosecutors To See. A key, if under-covered, aspect of the "Pakistani mystery man" story is that Imran Awan, the Pakistani-born IT aide of former DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz, took a laptop with username RepDWS after he was banned from the House computer network for "unauthorized access to data," and then left it in a phone booth with a letter to prosecutors. On Friday [4/20/2018], President Donald Trump tweeted: "Just heard the Campaign was sued by the Obstructionist Democrats. This can be good news in that we will now counter for the DNC Server that they refused to give to the FBI, the Debbie Wasserman Schultz Servers and Documents held by the Pakistani mystery man and Clinton Emails." Trump appears to have accurately identified a key issue with the "Pakistani mystery man" that comes straight from court documents. House Hacking Suspects' Father Transferred Data To Pakistani Government, Ex-Partner Claims. The father of Imran Awan — an IT aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz who investigators concluded made "unauthorized access" to House servers — transferred a USB drive to a Pakistani senator and former head of a Pakistani intelligence agency, the father's ex-business partner, Rashid Minhas, alleged. Minhas told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Imran Awan's father, Haji Ashraf Awan, was giving data to Pakistani official Rehman Malik, and that Imran bragged he had the power to "change the U.S. president." Witness Says House Democrats' IT Tech Was a Pakistani Spy. Daily Caller reporter Luke Rosiak is investigating the case of the family of Pakistani IT techs working for the Democrat House members. One of those techs was Imran Awan, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz's IT tech. He also worked on almost all Democrat House member computers. One key witness says Imran was a spy who gave their classified data to Pakistani intelligence. Imran and his family had access to the computers of most of the Democrat House members and had a lust for money by all accounts. He accessed unauthorized classified data, transferring it from the congressional computers to an outside server. Imran Awan saw to it that his unqualified family members also got high-paying no-show jobs in the congressional offices of Democrat members. Fifteen Things To Know About 'Pakistani Mystery Man' Imran Awan. [#1] Imran worked for Debbie Wasserman Schultz since 2004 and had the passwords to her devices[.] A search of his name on WikiLeaks shows the DNC summoned Imran when they needed her device unlocked. [#2] During the 2016 election, the House's Office of Inspector General warned that Imran and his family were making "unauthorized access" to data[.] A September 30, 2016, presentation alleged Imran Awan and his family members were logging into the servers of members who had previously fired him, funneling data off the network, and that evidence "suggests steps are being taken to conceal their activity." The Awan group's behavior mirrored a "classic method for insiders to exfiltrate data from an organization," the briefing materials allege. The presentation especially found problems on one server: that of the House Democratic Caucus, an entity similar to the DNC that was chaired at the time by then-Rep. Xavier Becerra. Congressmen Repeatedly Failed To Supervise IT Aides With 'Keys To The Kingdom,' Officials Say. Only one IT aide currently working directly for members of Congress has ever completed a background check, members' data have been improperly mixed with other members' data, and members provided almost no supervision, officials revealed Thursday in a House hearing spurred by "egregious" violations by former IT aide Imran Awan. Members of Congress threw "$10 million" in additional funding to the [chief administrative officer (CAO)] in order to enhance their cybersecurity program" in June 2017. The move followed repeated cybersecurity threats against members of Congress, including the detection of what an IG report called "unauthorized access" by Awan. They also had the CAO and others propose how best to clamp down on vulnerabilities. But the CAO revealed Thursday that members blocked the resulting proposal, which called for eliminating Awan's job category, that of a floating IT aide accountable only to members. Congress And Wasserman Schultz [are] Negligent For Allowing Hacking Suspects Continued Access, Expert Says. A publication for IT security professionals says House leaders of both parties were negligent and in violation of basic IT protocol by allowing Imran Awan and his family to continue in their roles as server administrators for four months despite knowing they were suspected of serious misconduct by the House Inspector General. "The lack of concern and perspective on the potential risks posed by Imran Awan is alarming," an article in SearchSecurity says. "This case is an example of negligence trumping security and, worse yet, common sense. Awan's alleged activities and the way many handled themselves, from the hiring to the response in the wake of the investigation, should concern us all." Forty-four House Democrats employed the Pakistani-born Imran Awan and his family in a position where they could read all the emails and files of one in five Democratic congressmen. DeSantis: Oversight Committee Should Investigate Debbie Wasserman Schultz, IT/Awan Brothers Scandal. Rep. Ron DeSantis speaks with FBN's Maria Bartiromo and FOX News analyst Jason Chaffetz about Imran Awan, a Pakistani IT technician who worked for more than 40 House Democrats. He is accused of committing severe cyber breaches and drawing unusually high salaries for his relatives. About the accusations, DeSantis said: "As you know, Jason, guys like me and even you as the chairman, we don't just investigate what we want to. I mean, this goes through the leadership. It needs to be approved. And I think the House leadership has not wanted any of us to get involved with investigating this. But the number of issues that are outstanding from this are really, really troubling." Donna Brazile Speaks Out On The Imran Awan Scandal. Former Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile said Democrats should have worked harder to vet former congressional aide Imran Awan before he was granted access to the House information technology network. "The House investigation — I haven't read the full report but I believe everyone should be vetted," Brazile said Wednesday [4/4/2018] on Fox Business Network's "Mornings with Maria." "No, I don't believe those individuals had anything to do with the hacking of the Democratic National Committee." 44 Dems, Including Wasserman Schultz, Exempted Pakistani IT Aides From Background Checks Photo of Luke Rosiak. Every one of the 44 House Democrats who hired Pakistan-born IT aides who later allegedly made "unauthorized access" to congressional data appears to have chosen to exempt them from background checks, according to congressional documents. [...] Among the red flags in Abid's background were a $1.1 million bankruptcy; six lawsuits against him or a company he owned; and at least three misdemeanor convictions including for DUI and driving on a suspended license, according to Virginia court records. Public court records show that Imran and Abid operated a car dealership referred to as CIA that took $100,000 from an Iraqi government official who is a fugitive from U.S. authorities. Numerous members of the family were tied to cryptic LLCs such as New Dawn 2001, operated out of Imran's residence, Virginia corporation records show. Imran was the subject of repeated calls to police by multiple women and had multiple misdemeanor convictions for driving offenses, according to court records. A History Of Alleged Intimidation And Tampering In House Hacking Case Marked By Witnesses' Silence. Soon after the House of Representatives found that Democratic IT aide Imran Awan and his family made "unauthorized access" to congressional data, Imran hurriedly vacated his house, renting it in February 2017 to a former Marine. Imran angrily told his new tenant, Andre Taggart, that he was homeless and to refuse any certified mail in Imran's name, Taggart said. A lawyer contacted Taggart about some items Imran left behind in the house and threatened to sue if he didn't return them, saying he'd accuse Taggart of theft, Taggart said. The equipment included Blackberries and "hard drives they look like they tried to destroy," as well as laptops and "a lot of brand new expensive [printer] toner," he said. Based on his military training, they appeared to Taggart to be government equipment, and he called the police. The Capitol Police and FBI arrived to collect the computer equipment, and Taggart moved out of the house in May, he said. In late August, Taggart felt that there was enough distance between Imran and his family that it was safe to tell his story publicly. Federal Judge Delaying Trial Of Scandalous IT Man Imran Awan. Last Thursday, March 8, Imran Awan was supposed to appear in federal court on bank fraud charges. The decision to push the case to May 4 left many wondering what, exactly, is going on with the Democrats' favorite IT man. Quite a bit, as it turns out, and not just bank fraud. As Frank Miniter noted in Forbes, Imran Awan was born in Pakistan and got a green card through the immigration lottery system, similar to Sayfullo Saipov, the Uzbeki terrorist who killed eight people in New York in October. Awan became a U.S. citizen in 2004 and earned an IT degree from Johns Hopkins. He did not work for any of the six officially vetted IT firms that perform work for congressional offices. Even so, DNC boss Debbie Wasserman Schultz not only brought Awan aboard but hired his wife Hina Alvi and other family members, though none had degrees in information technology. Of all the IT people in all the companies in all the world, this was the squad the Democrats wanted. Ethics Complaint: Rep. Cleaver Let Non-Staffer Access His Servers, Paid McDonald's Worker As IT Guy. A Democratic congressman is facing an ethics complaint for paying an unqualified former McDonald's employee to manage his data for three years and allegedly admitting to handing control of his servers to now-indicted Pakistani-American Imran Awan despite Awan not being on his staff. A complaint submitted against Rep. Emanuel Cleaver on Wednesday asks the Congressional Ethics Office to investigate Cleaver's response to a question about his IT aide Rao Abbas whose previous job field was fast food. Chris Bedford Peels Back The Onion On Capitol Hill IT Scandal. The Daily Caller News Foundation's Editor-in-Chief Chris Bedford discussed the Capitol Hill IT scandal involving the Awan family Wednesday on Fox Business and said the corruption may go all the way to the top. Bedford said the Awan brothers — who worked as IT aides for many Democratic members of Congress including Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz — have multiple lawsuits pending against them by members of their own family. He believes there is a pattern of nefarious behavior. The Imran Awan case has gone cold. This guy was basically indulging in cyber-espionage. Yet his wife, Hina Alvi was allowed to leave the country after she was apprehended at the airport. Imran Awans court date keeps getting postponed. Remember the judge who was supposed to be providing is actually closely connected to Obama[.] From the 2017 FBI affidavit: "FBI and U.S. Capitol Police, approached Alvi at Dulles International Airport, in Dulles, Virginia. Alvi was about to board Qatar Airlines, Flight 708, to Doha, Qatar, on her way to Lahore, Pakistan. Alvi was with her three children, who were abruptly taken out of school without notifying the Fairfax County Public School System. Alvi had numerous pieces of luggage with her, including cardboard boxes. A secondary search of those items revealed that the boxes contained household goods, clothing, and food items. A search of Alvi's bags prior to boarding the plane and located a total of $12,400 in US cash[.] Prosecutors File Papers Postponing Imran Awan Court Date For [the] Fourth Time. On Friday [3/2/2018], prosecutors filed papers postponing former Democrat IT aide Imran Awan's court case, reports Luke Rosiak of the Daily Caller. "Prosecutors filed papers today postponing the #ImranAwan court date for a fourth time, to May 4, while the parties "assess their options" about Wasserman Schultz's laptop, which he had after being banned from the House network. The media thinks this case is about mortgage fraud," tweeted Rosiak. Stand by your Awan, cont'd. It appears that the Daily Caller's Luke Rosiak is the only reporter following the story of the Pakistani Awan family members who infiltrated the House Democrats' IT staff working for Debbie Wasserman Schultz et al. When I say "following the story," I mean reporting and breaking news in it, as Paul and I have noted many times on Power Line. In January Rosiak drew on the House Office of Inspector General (OIG) report on the Awan. The OIG report concluded that the Awans made unauthorized access to congressional servers in 2016, allegedly accessing the data of members for whom they did not work, logging in as members of Congress themselves and covering their tracks. Why Did The FBI Let A Congressional Hacking Suspect Leave The Country? In March 2017, FBI agents were tailing House of Representatives IT aides suspected of hacking Congress, and apprehended one at the airport trying to make a hasty exit to Pakistan. She refused to speak with them, and a search revealed that she was carrying an apparently illegal amount of cash. The FBI allowed Hina Alvi, wife of Imran Awan, to board the plane anyway — then filed paperwork saying agents believed she had no intention of returning to the U.S. For nearly a year since, the case has lingered despite the House Office of Inspector General (OIG) determining that the family of Pakistanis made "unauthorized access" to Congress's data shortly before the election. Intel Committee Dems 'Dangerous,' 'Negligent' In Handling Of Breach By Their Own IT Aide. Three Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have been "dangerous" and "negligent" by seemingly failing to react to evidence of a major security breach by their own IT aides, a former Air Force colonel and career intelligence staffer charged. In light of this, he told The Daily Caller News Foundation, their concerns on committee Republicans voting to release a classified memo ring hollow. The House inspector general found that a family of Pakistanis working for Democrats made "unauthorized access" to House servers, logging in using members' personal usernames, covering their tracks, and continuing to access servers even after efforts to stop them. The IG found evidence that data from 17 members may have been funneled onto one server, which law enforcement said was later physically stolen. Imran Awan Was a Top Democrat Staffer By Day, Hezbollah Money Launderer By Night. Imran Awan started his Washingtonian career as an IT staffer for Florida Democrat Congressman Robert Wexler in 2004. Thirteen years later, after working as an IT staffer for dozens of Democrats in Congress, Awan was charged with Bank Fraud, and is currently awaiting trial. As a side business, Awan became involved in a used car dealership known as "CIA". On the surface, CIA seemed like any other used car dealership. Upon further investigation, reporters at The Daily Caller discovered several glaring discrepancies at CIA Used Cars. On the dealership's Facebook page, they name employees that did not exist. House: Awan Gang Rampaged Through Dem Servers. Imagine a Republican had broken into one Democratic congressional servers. That would be front page news for weeks. Now imagine a Republican had broken into the servers of 44 Democratic congressmen, plus the DNC. There would be congressional hearings televised by every major network and calls to disband the RNC. But let five Pakistani nationals do the same thing and the MSM just can't be arsed to even investigate it. It's a huge scandal. It's difficult to rank the worst political scandals in US history, but this has to be close to #1. [Scroll down] The presentation, written by the House's Office of the Inspector General, reported under the bold heading "UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS" that "5 shared employee system administrators have collectively logged into 15 member offices and the Democratic Caucus although they were not employed by the offices they accessed." It found indications that a House "server is being used for nefarious purposes and elevated the risk that individuals could be reading and/or removing information" and "could be used to store documents taken from other offices." The server was that of the House Democratic Caucus, a sister group of the DNC that was run at the time by then-Rep. Xavier Becerra. The aides named are Imran Awan, his wife Hina Alvi, his brothers Abid and Jamal, and his friend Rao Abbas, Pakistani-born aides whose lives are filled with reason for concern. Abid's Ukranian wife Natalia Sova and Haseeb Rana were also involved in the Awans' activities but departed the House payroll prior to the investigation. One systems administrator "logged into a member's office two months after he was terminated from that office," the investigative summary says. Report: Democrat IT Guys Logged In as Congressmen. Pakistani IT workers who were supposed to be working on computers for House Democrats were using the passwords of members of Congress to access the House servers and cover their tracks, according to an investigation report. The Daily Caller's Luke Rosiak reports the House Office of Inspector General investigators concluded Imran Awan, his wife Hina Alvi, his brothers Abid and Jamal, and his friend Rao Abbas employed a "classic method for insiders to exfiltrate data from an organization," which continued even after they were told to stop. House Report Concluded Pakistanis Made 'Unauthorized Access' To Congressional Servers. House investigators concluded that Democratic IT aides made unauthorized access to congressional servers in 2016, allegedly accessing the data of members for whom they did not work, logging in as members of Congress themselves, and covering their tracks, according to a presentation summarizing the findings of a four-month internal probe. Their behavior mirrored a "classic method for insiders to exfiltrate data from an organization," and they continued even after orders to stop, the briefing materials allege. There are indications that numerous members' data may have been secretly residing not on their designated servers, but instead aggregated onto one server, according to the briefing and other sources. Authorities said that the entire server was then physically stolen. Imran Awan case only gets weirder by the month. Now a status hearing scheduled for just before Thanksgiving later postponed to January 8, 2018 has been moved once again to March 2108. [...] Judge Tanya S. Chutkan revoked Awan's curfew restrictions and stopped requiring him to be drug tested, according to Wednesday court filing. But kept in place GPS monitoring device and he not travel outside 150-mile radius of his home. Tanya Chutkan who? Well if you read my previous thread you would know. She's intimately involved with the firm that hired fusion GPS to commission the dossier. She's also deeply tied to Obama: Deeply. She donated campaign cash to Obama. After his election, he appointed both her and her husband as judges. Other Chutkan family members also contributed to Obama's political coffers. Did Awans Cut A Deal? January Court Date Mysteriously Disappears From Docket. Luke Rosiak of The Daily Caller pointed out a mysterious twist in the case of Pakistani national and long-time DNC IT contractor, Imran Awan — who was arrested in July at Dulles Airport while trying to flee the country after having wired nearly $300,000 to Pakistan. Awan's court date on four counts related to bank fraud, which had already been reschedule twice, has disappeared from the docket altogether. Trump draws attention to case against ex-Dem IT aide Imran Awan. President Trump is drawing attention to the mysterious federal court case against Imran Awan, the former IT aide to a number of congressional Democrats, including former Democratic National Committee chairman Debbie Wasserman Schultz. "Whatever happened to this Pakistani guy who worked with the DNC?" the president asked in an interview published Thursday by the New York Times. A grand jury in August returned an indictment in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia charging Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, with a total of four counts, which included federal bank fraud and conspiracy. Awan has pleaded not guilty to all charges. Mystery: Awan Brothers Court Date Disappears From Calendar After Being Postponed Twice. Another day, another plot twist to the 'Awan Brothers,' story. Daily Caller reporter Luke Rosiak discovered Thursday [12/28/2017] that the Awan brothers' next court date, scheduled for January 8th, 2018, disappeared from the calendar. Ex-Dem IT aide Imran Awan could flee to Pakistan if restrictions lifted, DOJ warns. The Justice Department warned Monday that ex-Capitol Hill IT aide Imran Awan is a "flight risk" and could flee to Pakistan if a judge approves his request to lift "all of the conditions of his release." U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu filed a motion before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, urging the court to deny the request from Awan, who is facing fraud and other charges. Awan, a former IT aide for Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, is currently enrolled in the High Intensity Supervision Program (HISP) with conditions that he abide by an electronically monitored curfew of 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. and a limit on traveling beyond 150 miles from his residence, according to court documents. Awan and his attorney want to lift those conditions, including the electronic monitoring bracelet. Imran Awan's Expanding Axis of Intrigue. IT man Imran Awan has a problem with women but Democrats have failed to place the Pakistani-born Muslim on their honor roll of abusers with Al Franken and John Conyers. When Awan attempted to flee the country in July, the feds busted him on bank fraud charges. Andrew McCarthy warned it was more likely a serious national security case, and it turns out he was right. As the intrepid Luke Rosiak notes in the Daily Caller, Imran's brother Abid ran a used-car lot in Falls Church, Virginia, called Cars International A. Trouble was, the "CIA" dealership had no inventory and the sales people were fakes. As Rosiak learned, the Awan dealership "took money from a Hezbollah-linked fugitive" whose financial books were "indecipherable." And as the DEA was aware, "the Iranian-linked terrorist group frequently deployed used car dealerships in the US to launder money and fund terrorism." On the other hand, the DEA had trouble going after the terrorists. House IT Aides Ran Car Dealership With Markings Of A Nefarious Money Laundering Operation. [Scroll down] Imran Awan and his family members were congressional IT aides who investigators said made unauthorized access to the House Democratic Caucus server thousands of times. At the same time as they worked for and could read all the emails of congressmen who sat on committees like Intelligence, Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs, they also ran a car dealership that took money from a Hezbollah-linked fugitive and whose financial books were indecipherable and business patterns bizarre, according to testimony in court records. While Imran and Abid Awan ran their car dealership in Falls Church, Va. in the early part of the decade, Drug Enforcement Agency officials a few miles away in Chantilly were learning that the Iranian-linked terrorist group frequently deployed used car dealerships in the US to launder money and fund terrorism, according to an explosive new Politico expose. Wow! Did Imran Awan Run Car Dealership Fronting As Iraqi Money Laundering Operation? With each passing day, we learn more and more about the dark and murky past of Pakistani IT staffer Imran Awan. The former employee of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is suspected of stealing hardware from ranking Democrats and sending sensitive intel to foreign groups. A new reports suggests Awan ran a car dealership that may have fronted as an overseas money laundering operation. Watchdog Names Wasserman Schultz One of Its Top Five Ethics Violators of 2017. A nonpartisan ethics watchdog has named Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) as one of its top five ethics violators of the year. The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) named Schultz as its second-worst violator of 2017 for her continued employment of Imran Awan, a House IT aide, after he was accused of stealing computers and data systems in February. Schultz finally fired Awan on July 25 when he was arrested at Dulles International Airport on bank fraud charges while trying to flee to Pakistan. Awan was indicted in August. Becerra Tried To Block Server Admin Over Red Flags, But Logins Continued, With Muted Reaction. Xavier Becerra, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, barely reacted when he learned the caucus server had been infiltrated in 2016, although he loudly decried the hack of the Democratic National Committee that happened around that same time. No one has faced punishment for the caucus server infiltration. The then-congressman, who is now California's attorney general, refused to articulate even the barest details of the cyber breach at a press conference Wednesday, and would not say whether he's seeking criminal charges against longtime IT aide Imran Awan and his family. Members of the Awan family logged on to the Caucus server 7,000 times without authorization between October 2015 and August 2016, according to a House investigation. The logins suggested "the server is being used for nefarious purposes and elevated the risk that individuals could be reading and/or removed information," it said. DNC Lawyer Scrambles To Block Evidence From Hidden Laptop Tied To Wasserman Schultz. A lawyer for former DNC IT staffer Imran Awan is scrambling to block evidence found on a hidden laptop which may contain proof of a massive spy ring operating at the highest levels of Congress, in what may be the largest breach of National Security in U.S. history. Awan, a Pakistani national, worked for dozens of Democratic members of Congress along with his wife, two brothers and a friend. Following the publication of DNC emails by WikiLeaks in the lead-up to the 2016 election, Congressional investigators discovered that the Awans had a secret server being housed by the House Democratic Caucus backed up to an offsite Dropbox account. Hard Drive Tied to Wasserman Schultz Is Central To Imran Awan Case. A court date for a former Democratic IT aide has been postponed by more than a month after the defendant's attorney, a former Hillary Clinton aide, said he's seeking to block prosecutors from using evidence that appears to include a government laptop tied to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. "The government has been in discussions with counsel for the defendants regarding complex discovery issues and other legal issues in this case, in particular issues surrounding claims of attorney-client privilege being raised by defendant Imran Awan," court papers filed Tuesday [11/28/2017] say. "Last night, counsel for both defendants indicated that they need additional time to review and analyze these issues, along with the voluminous discovery the government provided in this case," according to the documents. "The government consents to this request." Congress Asks Congress Why There's No Congressional Awan Investigation. Three Pakistani brothers (Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan), along with their family members, managed the congressional IT (Information Technology) for members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. An investigation in 2016 showed they accessed congressional computer networks without permission, transferred the content, and jaw-droppingly did much of their work while physically located in Pakistan. Imran Awan Made "Massive" Data Transfers. [Scroll down] Some three months later, Rep. Scott Perry announced a "substantial security threat" from "massive" data breaches by the Democrats' favorite IT man. Of all the IT men in all the IT companies in all the world, why did the Democrats hire Imran Awan? After learning that the Pakistani-born Muslim was under investigation, why did the Democrats keep paying him? And why did they bring on board other members of his family? In his 5,400 unauthorized logins, what material did Awan take from members of the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees? Did Imran Awan send any classified information to his homeland Pakistan, which aids the Taliban and harbored Osama bin Laden? Or did he sell it off to Russia or perhaps North Korea? What did the Democrats know about Awan's data breaches, and when did they know it? Did Awan's data have anything to do with all the DNC leaks last year? Is Mueller's Russia probe a diversion from the massive data breaches by Awan and his family? What, exactly, was on that secret server that House Democratic Caucus boss Xavier Becerra wanted to wipe clean? That is a key question, but Perry should expect little if any cooperation from Becerra, once on Hillary Clinton's short list as a running mate. Police probing IT contractors for House Dems over 'unauthorized' computer access. U.S. Capitol Police are probing the activities of several IT contractors who worked for dozens of House Democrats after they allegedly inappropriately accessed House computers, took congressional computer hardware and made questionable IT-related purchases on behalf of lawmakers. House officials already have revoked the IT and access privileges for the five congressional IT contractors, as police investigate. No arrests have yet been made. Gohmert on Wasserman Schultz-Awan IT Scandal: 'Hundreds of Potential Federal Charges Here'. Thursday [10/12/2017] on Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends," Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) discussed the gathering held a day earlier at the House Taxed Enough Already caucus meeting in which they talked about the former House staffer Imran Awan's alleged wrongdoing as an IT staffer for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and other House Democrats. HA Goodman Tackles The Awan Scandal And Debbie Wasserman Schultz. [Scroll down] HA begins his latest installment by pointing out that Debbie Wasserman Schultz has already admitted that Imran Awan, Hina Alvi and their associates used dropbox to store files while working for dozens of House Democrats. Goodman adds that Schultz has acknowledged that data was moved to a cloud, and that she portrayed this as a harmless action despite cloud storage being prohibited by Congress. Goodman writes that many of Democrats whose data may have been accessed by the Awans likely had no idea their information could have been used improperly. [...] As the book implies, the unencrypted storage of sensitive data on a cloud service likely constitutes either gross ineptitude, or an intentional move to open up such data to foreign entities in order to sell the information. Goodman writes: "Ultimately, Debbie Wasserman Schultz's decade-long friendship with Imran Awan and Hina Alvi resulted in sensitive Congressional data possibly in the hands of rival nations, or at least stored outside the U.S. government." Goodman adds that it would be a mistake to view the Awan and DNC scandals as separate from the ongoing Clinton scandal and its connection to the Clinton Foundation, writing that Saudi Arabian donors of the Clinton Foundation contributed to the campaigns of Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Cory Booker, as well as the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. Paul Ryan at the Center of the Greatest Political Scandal of the 21st Century. [Scroll down] One possibility is that the Awans were so fully embedded on Capitol Hill that electronic data belonging to members of both parties was compromised. Perhaps Republicans are just as fearful as Democrats of what the Awans stole and what ultimately they will do with it." [Peter] Flaherty went on to put into words what our take on this has been since the Democrat IT scandal first broke and the Republican leadership studiously ignored it: A greater possibility is that the House branch of the Republican Party has ceased to function as a real political force. Where Are Republicans on House IT Scandal? The two months that have passed since the August 17 indictment of Imran Awan and his wife Hina Alvi, former technology staffers for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), have yielded little except more mystery. The mainstream media has largely ignored the story. Most of what we know has been reported by Luke Rosiak in the Daily Caller. The revelations have become a staple of conservative media, providing fuel for a social media brushfire. In apparent response, an informal hearing was held on October 10 by a handful of members of the Freedom Caucus. The lead witness was Rosiak who complained of an "extraordinary level of silence from official channels" about the scandal. Imran Awan, Aide to Wasserman Schultz, Made 5,400 Unauthorized Logins on House Server. Imran Awan, the former aide to Debbie Wasserman Schultz, made "massive" data transfers off the secure House server during unauthorized logins. Awan, who also worked for more than two dozen other House Democrats, pleaded not guilty in September to multiple federal charges including bank fraud and conspiracy. "These facts, standing alone, indicate a substantial security threat," Rep. Scott Perry, R-Penn., said Tuesday [10/10/2017] during a hearing of Republican House members on Capitol Hill. Rep. Perry, a member of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cyber Security, said the Office of Inspector General tracked the network usage of Awan and his associates on House servers and found that a "massive" amount of data was transferred from the networks. The Democrats' IT scandal just got even more bizarre. 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 'Very Strongly' Wants To Block Review Of Hard Drive, Was Using Alias. Lawyers for Imran Awan, an ex-aide who ran information technology (IT) for Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, "feel very strongly" that data recovered from a hard drive on Capitol Hill should not be valid as evidence because he put a note that said "attorney client privilege" near it before leaving it in a phone booth, they said in federal court Friday [10/6/2017]. A police report shows that the backpack contained a laptop with the username "RepDWS," copy of Imran Awan's ID, and the notebook. Prosecutors revealed that when they arrested Imran at the airport in July as he tried to board a flight to Pakistan, he was carrying a resume with an alias in the Jackson Heights, Queens neighborhood of New York City. Imran may have planned to "relocate" there, seemingly under a different identity, Prosecutors suggested. They said he had wiped his cell phone hours before the arrest, suggesting that he was taking "active measures" to hide evidence. Democrat Muslim IT Spy Scandal Spreads to Pelosi and Clinton. This goes all the way to the top. Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's top information technology (IT) aide was arrested Monday attempting to board a flight to Pakistan after wiring $283,000 from the Congressional Federal Credit Union to that country. The Democrats have paid the Muslim IT spy ring $4 million since 2009. FBI agents seized several hard computer drives that had been smashed from the home of former Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's information technology aide. Lawyer For IT Aide Says Dem Congressmen To Blame For Falsified Spending Records. House Democrats ordered the systematic falsification of records showing how they spend their taxpayer-provided office budgets, according to lawyers for two former House information technology (IT) aides. It's a remarkable accusation that pits sitting lawmakers against the former aides, Imran Awan, his brothers Abid and Jamal, and his wife Hina Alvi. Imran was arrested in July while trying to board a flight to Pakistan, and then indicted on four counts of bank fraud involving moving money to that country. Imran and Hina, who was also indicted, face a court date Friday [10/6/2017]. Awan Funneling 'Massive' Data Off Congressional Server, Dems Claim It's Child's Homework. Democratic congressional aides made unauthorized access to a House server 5,400 times and funneled "massive" amounts of data off of it. But there's nothing to see here, Democrats told The Washington Post: They were just storing and then re-downloading homework assignments for Imran Awan's elementary-school aged kids and family pictures. A congressional source with direct knowledge of the incident contradicted the Post's account, saying that now-indicted IT aide Imran Awan and his associates "were moving terabytes off-site so they could quote 'work on the files'" and that they desperately tried to hide what was on the server when caught, providing police with what law enforcement immediately recognized as falsified evidence and an indication of criminal intent. 'Like a Slave:' Three Muslim Women, At Least One Of Them Bloodied, Called Police on Imran Awan. Multiple women in relationships with Imran Awan, the indicted former IT aide for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, have recently called Virginia law enforcement and alleged being abused by him, police reports obtained under Virginia's Freedom of Information Act show. Officers found one of the women bloodied and she told them she "just wanted to leave," while the second said she felt like a "slave," according to Fairfax County Police reports obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group. A third woman claimed she was being kept "in captivity." The Awan breach on Capitol Hill gets murkier and leads to more questions. [Scroll down] Congressman Trent Franks, an Arizona Republican, believes [Awan's wife] Alvi may have cut an immunity deal. He said in a Fox News interview this week that he believes Alvi's decision to return to the United States from Pakistan may be part of a larger immunity deal with federal authorities. "I think you're going to see some revelations that are going to be pretty profound," said Franks. "The fact that this wife is coming back from Pakistan and willing to face charges, as it were, I think there is a good chance she is going to reach some type of immunity to tell a larger story here that is going to be pretty disturbing to the American people." Imran Awan Had a Secret Server that Was Connected to the House Democratic Caucus. A clearer picture is coming into focus on the Democrat IT scandal that may help explain why Democrats have been so reluctant to condemn the Awans or help the police with the investigation. It also might explain why former DNC chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been so jumpy lately. New information about a massive cybersecurity breach, gleaned from a senior House official with direct knowledge of the investigation, implicates the former chair of the House Democratic Caucus, then-Rep. Xavier Becerra, who is now the attorney general of California and a rising star in Democratic politics. Imran Awan Downloaded "Terabits" of Info to Dropbox — May Have Sold DNC Emails. "IT specialist" Imran Awan worked for Debbie Wasserman Schultz for thirteen years since she was first elected to national office in 2004 as a Florida representative. She only fired him after he was arrested and would have kept paying her "IT expert" even after he fled to Pakistan. The Awan brothers IT ring had access to emails and computer data from an estimated 800 lawmakers and staffers. Red-Handed! Cops Caught Dem IT Aide Hiding Secret Server. The Democrats' explosive IT scandal appears to be getting stranger by the day — and bank fraud isn't even the beginning of twisted saga. The top suspect in the House hacking scandal, Imran Awan, allegedly forwarded data from several House Democrats to a secret server, the Daily Caller reports. Awan headed a group of IT workers, mostly relatives, employed by dozens of House Democrats, including former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., for whom he had worked since she took office in 2005 as the representative from Florida's 23rd district. When police suspected something was wrong early this year, they asked for a copy of the server. But they were given a fake image instead. DWS IT Guy Was Banned From House After Trying To Hide Secret Server. A secret server is behind law enforcement's decision to ban a former IT aide to Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz from the House network. Now-indicted former congressional IT aide Imran Awan allegedly routed data from numerous House Democrats to a secret server. Police grew suspicious and requested a copy of the server early this year, but they were provided with an elaborate falsified image designed to hide the massive violations. The falsified image is what ultimately triggered their ban from the House network Feb. 2, according to a senior House official with direct knowledge of the investigation. The secret server was connected to the House Democratic Caucus, an organization chaired by then-Rep. Xavier Becerra. Rep. Franks Predicts Awans Will Get Immunity For "Significant, Disturbing Story" About Wasserman Schultz. Last week the Washington Examiner reported that Hina Alvi, the wife of Debbie Wasserman Schultz's now-infamous former IT staffer Imran Awan, had struck a deal with federal prosecutors to return to the U.S. where she currently faces charges of conspiracy and bank fraud. The deal with prosecutors mandates a return to the U.S. during the "last week of September 2017" and is structured so that she will not be arrested in front of her children. Now, if you're the cynical type, then it might have struck you as somewhat odd that Alvi would agree to return from Pakistan, the place to which she successfully fled specifically to avoid the charges she now seems to be embracing. But, at least according to Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) who appeared on Fox News recently, there may be more to Alvi's return than meets the eye as he predicts that the Awans could be working on a broader immunity deal with prosecutors in return for a "significant" and "pretty disturbing" story about Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Debbie 'Blabbermouth' Schultz In Full Panic Mode As Awan Cuts Deal!. You can believe Congresswoman Debbie 'Blabbermouth' Schultz (D-FL) must be sweating bullets with the recent news about her former IT employees, Imran Awan, and Hina Alvi, his wife. It seems Hina has "struck a deal" with prosecutors to return to the U.S. sometime the last week of September. Both Imran Awan and Hina Alvi face charges of conspiracy and bank fraud, but those could go away with some kind of plea bargain. If Hina is stiking a deal, you can bet it won't be long for her husband, Imran Awan to do the same. FBI: Awans Finalizing Immunity Deals with DOJ in Exchange For Testimony on Members of Congress. The legal teams for Imran Awan and Hina Alvi are close to finalizing immunity deals with the Justice Department that could spare them jail time in exchange for testimony against sitting members of Congress, federal law enforcement sources said. FBI sources familiar with the case said late Friday that Imran Awan's legal counsel was "deep in the process" of structuring an immunity deal for himself and his wife with Justice Department lawyers. The deal would allow the couple to freely testify against any or all Democratic lawmakers they worked for as IT specialists, including Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. True Pundit reported on Thursday that the couple was working on a plea deal to avoid prison time. But on Friday federal sources said those talks had progressed into a likely immunity deal for the duo. The focus of the federal probe has shifted from the bank fraud allegations against the Pakistani couple to classified intelligence breaches in Congress, FBI sources confirm. Prosecutors Eyeing Wasserman Schultz In Laptop Probe. Prosecutors have given Imran Awan a copy of the hard drive of a House laptop that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz tried to keep law enforcement from looking at, court filings show, suggesting prosecutors intend to bring charges related to the underlying cybersecurity and theft probe. The hard-drive copy was included in discovery even though Wasserman Schultz has said the laptop contains House information on it and is a government-paid work laptop, and even though Imran was fired and banned from the House network because of suspected cybersecurity violations. Imran left the laptop, with username RepDWS, in a phone booth in circumstances that suggest that it was not accidentally forgotten there. Alongside it, he left a copy of his ID and letters to the U.S. attorney that ensured it would be treated as evidence instead of simply returned as a missing laptop. Beware of Narratives and Misinformation. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is many things. But so far he has not been caught lying about the origin of the leaked documents that came into his hands. He has insisted for well over a year that the Russians did not provide him with the DNC e-mails. When it was discovered that the e-mails had been compromised, then-DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz weirdly refused to allow forensic detectives from the FBI to examine the DNC server to probe the evidence of the theft. Why did the FBI accept that refusal? That strange behavior was not as bizarre as Wasserman Schultz's later frenzied efforts to protect her information-technology specialist, Imran Awan, from Capitol Police and FBI investigations. Both agencies were hot on Awan's trail for unlawfully transferring secure data from government computers, and also for bank and federal-procurement fraud. So far, the story of the DNC hack is not fully known, but it may eventually be revealed that it involves other actors beyond just the Russians. Prosecutors Eyeing Wasserman Schultz In Laptop Probe. Prosecutors have given Imran Awan a copy of the hard drive of a House laptop that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz tried to keep law enforcement from looking at, court filings show, suggesting prosecutors intend to bring charges related to the underlying cybersecurity and theft probe. The hard-drive copy was included in discovery even though the Florida Democrat has said the laptop contains House information on it and is a government-paid work computer, and even though Imran was fired and banned from the House network because of suspected cybersecurity violations. Imran left the laptop, with the username RepDWS, in a phone booth in circumstances that suggest that it was not accidentally forgotten there. Alongside it, he left a copy of his ID and letters to the U.S. attorney that ensured it would be treated as evidence instead of simply returned as a missing laptop. 'Big fish' Debbie Wasserman Schultz watches as 'small fish' start to cut deals. It's starting to look as though Imran Awan and his wife Hina Alvi are making plea deals and incriminating people above them in the food chain. Both of them were I.T. staffers for Democrats in the House of Representatives, earning substantial multiples of customary wages, raising intense suspicions of blackmail. Ms. Alvi reportedly has already made a deal and will be returning to the U.S. from her native Pakistan, where she earlier fled. Her husband was arrested at Dulles Airport, attempting to do the same. Wasserman Schultz Aide Who Fled US Strikes A Deal To Return, Facing Charges. A former staffer for Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz who fled to Pakistan while under criminal investigation has struck a deal with federal officials to return to the U.S. to appear at an arraignment. Two former Democratic staffers, Imran Awan and his wife Hina Alvi, both face charges of conspiracy and bank fraud. Alvi who has a warrant for her arrest, struck a deal with prosecutors that would allow her to return to the U.S. for a mandatory court date in October, according to new court documents. [...] The FBI arrested Awan after he wired nearly $300,000 to Pakistan and misrepresented the purpose. He had previously wired money to the country and was frantically liquidating multiple real estate properties on the day he was arrested, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group discovered in July. Did Imran Want Capitol Police To Find Wasserman Schultz's Laptop? A laptop that Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has frantically fought to keep prosecutors from examining may have been planted for police to find by her since-indicted staffer, Imran Awan, along with a letter to the U.S. Attorney. U.S. Capitol Police found the laptop after midnight April 6, 2017, in a tiny room that formerly served as a phone booth in the Rayburn House Office Building, according to a Capitol Police report reviewed by The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group. Alongside the laptop were a Pakistani ID card, copies of Awan's driver's license and congressional ID badge, and letters to the U.S. attorney. Police also found notes in a composition notebook marked "attorney-client privilege." The laptop had the username "RepDWS," even though the Florida Democrat and former Democratic National Committee chairman previously said it was Awan's computer and that she had never even seen it. The Muslim Brotherhood Security Breach in Congress. 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 Andre Carson, Luis Guiterez, Jim Himes, Terri Sewell, Jackie Speier, Mike Quigley, Eric Swalwell and Patrick Murphy. All the signatories were Democrats. Some had a history of attempting to undermine national security. Two of them have been linked to an emerging security breach. 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. Awan Asks Judge To Remove GPS, Citing Possible Emergency With Kids In Pakistan. A former House of Representatives IT aide was arraigned in federal court Friday on four felony fraud charges, appearing with three attorneys including Chris Gowen, a former close aide to Hillary and Bill Clinton. Gowen asked that Imran Awan's GPS monitoring bracelet be removed, citing that Imran might need to attend to an emergency with his children. In a press conference outside court, Gowen admitted that the children are in Pakistan and refused to explain the discrepancy. The Editor says... Ex-IT aide for Wasserman Schultz pleads not guilty. A former IT aide for Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz pleaded not guilty on Friday [8/31/2017] to multiple federal charges including bank fraud and conspiracy. A grand jury had returned an indictment last month in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia charging Imran Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, with a total of four charges. Awan's wife and children have already left the country and are back in the family's homeland of Pakistan, according to the FBI. Awan, after entering the not guilty plea, is due back in court on Oct. 16 for a status hearing. AP, NY Times Have Ignored Wasserman Schultz-Dem IT Scandal for Over a Month. Since Imran Awan's arrest in late July, the Daily Caller has published roughly two dozen follow-up stories on various aspects of the scandal involving the longtime rogue Democrat IT staffer and his inexplicably enriched family members. The Associated Press and the New York Times have, from all appearances, published nothing since July 28. At APNews.com, the site which has replaced the wire service's old "Big Story" site but which also theoretically includes important coverage from other AP-subscribing sources, the last story on Awan, the IT staffer for former Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, was on July 26, the day the Congresswoman officially fired him. Exclusive: Imran Awan Has Still-Active Secret House Account, And It's Tied To An Intelligence Staffer. A former IT aide suspected of stealing equipment and data from Congress still has an active, secret email account on the House computer system, even though he has been banned from the congressional network because of a criminal investigation into the alleged cybersecurity violations, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned. Imran Awan's still-active email address is linked to the name of a House staffer who specializes in intelligence and homeland security matters for Indiana Democratic Rep. André Carson. Wasserman Schultz's 'Islamophobia' Claim Prompts Angered Marine To Go Public On Awans. A Marine who provided key evidence in the FBI case against Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's former IT employee said he is appalled by her claim that Islamophobia led U.S. Capitol Police to frame the former staffer. Also Wednesday, two of Imran Awan's relatives went on the record to say they think he would do anything for money. Andre Taggart alerted the FBI to damaged hard drives and a cache of electronics tied to Imran Awan, a former IT specialist for dozens of House Democrats. Awan is the central figure in a criminal investigation of suspected procurement fraud and violations of the congressional IT network, including diverting data to an off-site server. Exclusive: Wasserman Schultz' 'Islamophobia' Claim Prompts Angered Marine To Go Public On Awans. A Marine who provided key evidence in the FBI case against Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's former IT employee said he is appalled by her claim that Islamophobia led U.S. Capitol Police to frame the former staffer. Also Wednesday [8/23/2017], two of Imran Awan's relatives went on the record to say they think he would do anything for money. Andre Taggart alerted the FBI to damaged hard drives and a cache of electronics tied to Imran Awan, a former IT specialist for dozens of House Democrats. Awan is the central figure in a criminal investigation of suspected procurement fraud and violations of the congressional IT network, including diverting data to an off-site server. Dem Rep Dodges Questions On Arrested House IT Staffer. New York Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke refused to answer questions Tuesday [8/22/2017] about former IT staffer Iran Awan, who was charged by federal authorities last week for bank fraud. Awan, who was arrested last month as he tried to board a plane to Pakistan from Washington, wired nearly $300k to the country before his planned departure. His wife Hina was also indicted but managed to escape authorities months ago after fleeing to Pakistan herself. Debbie Wasserman Schultz defends decision to keep staffer charged with bank fraud. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., defended her decision to keep IT staffer Imran Awan on government payroll after she discovered he was under investigation for bank fraud. Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, were indicted last week by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia with a total of four charges. "He's not my staffer. He no longer works for me. And when he was arrested, I terminated him," Wasserman Schultz said during a briefing Tuesday [8/22/2017] according to the Sun-Sentinel. "I kept him on the payroll during the time that he was not arrested and not charged with anything. And that was because, as I said, that I was concerned about the violation of his due process rights and also that there were racial and ethnic profiling concerns as well." Wasserman Schultz said she didn't know Awan was attempting to send money to Pakistan. Wasserman Schultz talks about arrested aide Imran Awan. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz defiantly stands by her decision to keep an information technology aide on her payroll for six months after he was banned from the House network and fired by other members of Congress. [...] As the former Democratic National Committee chairwoman, Wasserman Schultz is the most prominent Democrat who employed Awan. Her decision to keep employing Awan has been under fire from her Democratic primary challenger, Republicans and multiple conservative websites. They've suggested Wasserman Schultz is hiding something and the Awan matter is much more serious than she's letting on. The Very Strange Indictment of Debbie Wasserman Schultz's IT Scammers. [Scroll down] So ... what's the best evidence you could possibly have, the slam-dunk proof that their goal was to steal the money and never look back? That's easy: One after the other, the wife and husband pulled up stakes and tried to high-tail it to Pakistan after they'd wired the funds there — the wife successfully fleeing, the husband nabbed as he was about to board his flight. Well, here's a peculiar thing about the Justice Department's indictment of Imran Awan and Hina Alvi, the alleged fraudster couple who doubled as IT wizzes for Debbie Wasserman Schultz and many other congressional Democrats: There's not a word in it about flight to Pakistan. The indictment undertakes to describe in detail four counts of bank-fraud conspiracy, false statements on credit applications, and unlawful monetary transactions, yet leaves out the most damning evidence of guilt. Biggest Conspiracy in U.S. History is All Around You! The mainstream media has been complicit in their silence regarding the case of Imran Awan, Debbie Wasserman Schultz's mysterious IT guy from Pakistan. But the story they are censoring has major implications for the national security of our country. Imran was recently arrested at Dulles airport on charges of bank fraud. But this is far larger than mere bank fraud. Report: Wasserman Schultz IT Aides May Have Stolen Sensitive Data. Authorities are investigating whether the IT aides that worked for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) and other lawmakers stole sensitive information and sold it to Pakistan and Russia. [...] In February, reports surfaced that four House employees face an investigation for breaching House IT systems and stealing equipment. Media named Hina, Abid, Imran, and Jamal in reports the following days. Lawmakers fired the four when the suspicions arose and barred the brothers "from computer networks at the House of Representatives." The New York Post pointed out that investigators found valuable government data that is believed to have been taken from the network and placed on offsite servers, setting off more alarms. FBI Suspects Members of Congress Leaked Grand Jury Indictment to the Awans; DOJ Officials Possibly Implicated Too. FBI agents suspect somebody in Congress tipped off the Awans that they would be indicted and now the criminal cases once-seemingly isolated to a group of rogue Pakistani IT specialists working for Congress suddenly has gotten much larger. And much more troubling. Federal agents said preceding his arrest, Imran Awan acted like a man who was recently tipped off that he would be pinched and moreover, it was no coincidence Awan's wife was whisked out of the country in March after sidestepping the FBI at Dulles International Airport to flee to Pakistan. "She had cardboard boxes for luggage," one FBI agent said. "The school didn't even know she took her kids out." Now a faction of FBI veterans believe the couple's puzzling behavior is explained by even more troubling revelations: Information about the Grand Jury convened to investigate Awan and his wife Hina Alvi for bank fraud and illicit money transfers was likely leaked to the Pakistani couple. Democrat's Office Approved $120k Write-off Linked To Awan Brothers. A chief of staff for Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke quietly agreed in early 2016 to sign away a $120,000 missing electronics problem on behalf of two former IT aides now suspected of stealing equipment from Congress, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Clarke's chief of staff at the time effectively dismissed the loss and prevented it from coming up in future audits by signing a form removing the missing equipment from a House-wide tracking system after one of the Awan brothers alerted the office the equipment was gone. The Pakistani-born brothers are now at the center of an FBI investigation over their IT work with dozens of Congressional offices. IT staffers may have compromised sensitive data to foreign intelligence. Federal authorities are investigating whether sensitive data was stolen from congressional offices by several Pakistani-American tech staffers and sold to Pakistani or Russian intelligence, knowledgeable sources say. What started out 16 months ago as a scandal involving the alleged theft of computer equipment from Congress has turned into a national-security investigation involving FBI surveillance of the suspects. Investigators now suspect that sensitive US government data — possibly including classified information — could have been compromised and may have been sold to hostile foreign governments that could use it to blackmail members of Congress or even put their lives at risk. Case against Wasserman Schultz' ex-IT aide expands with 4-count indictment. The federal case against Imran Awan, a former IT aide for Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, expanded Thursday with an indictment on four counts including conspiracy and making false statements. He originally was charged with a single bank fraud count; his wife Hina Alvi also was indicted Thursday. The grand jury decision in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia comes roughly a month after Awan was arrested at Dulles airport in Virginia trying to board a plane to Pakistan, where his family is from. Two Former Wasserman Schultz IT Aides Indicted For Conspiracy Against US. A federal grand jury Thursday [8/17/2017] indicted two former information technology (IT) aides of Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz — Pakistani-born Imran Awan and his wife Hina Alvi — on four counts of conspiracy in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The FBI arrested Awan at Dulles International Airport July 24 as he was preparing to board a flight to Pakistan. When his wife Alvi left the U.S. for Pakistan in March, federal authorities found more than $12,000 in cash hidden in a suitcase. She had withdrawn the couple's three children from local schools and does not intend to return to the U.S., according to the FBI. NRCC Hits Wasserman Schultz for Handling of IT Staffer Scandal. The National Republican Congressional Committee on Wednesday released a new ad titled "Corrupt," which targets Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.) for her handling of the scandal involving her now-former IT staffer, Imran Awan. Schultz has faced backlash in recent weeks for employing Awan, who had been under federal investigation since February for an equipment and data scam in the House; she only fired Awan after he attempted to flee the United States. He was arrested in late July at Dulles Airport in Virginia after trying to fly to his native Pakistan. Grassley Seeks Immigration Files For Pakistani Suspects In House IT Probe. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley has requested copies of immigration files for the six Pakistani suspects in the House IT scandal, who allegedly stole equipment from Congress and accessed computers without permission. Grassley is seeking more information on Imran Awan, his wife, his two brothers and two of his close friends in connection to the scandal. Capitol police have accused Awan and his associates of violating congressional security policies and stealing equipment from Congress. Awan is from Pakistan, and was arrested by the FBI in July as he boarded a flight to the country. How Did the Dems' IT Scandal Suspects Get Here? For months, the D.C. Capitol Police have probed allegations that the Awan ring stole equipment from more than 20 congressional offices and accessed the House IT system without members' knowledge. Investigative reporter Luke Rosiak at the Daily Caller News Foundation has done excellent work on the case — most recently breaking the news of Imran Awan's arrest in late July at the airport for alleged bank fraud, mortgage scams, and shady wire transfers of nearly $300,000. Awan was headed to Pakistan to join his wife, Hina Alvi, and three children, who had hastily fled America in March after Alvi was fired by Representative Meeks. This reeks. My question to the House Democrats was simple: Were the Awans and their family and friends H-1B tech workers — like so many of the 650,000 "temporary" foreign guest workers imported into America under that program over the past quarter-century and predominantly working in IT? DNC Party Members Turning Against Wasserman Schultz After IT Scandal. Members of the Democratic Party are turning on Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.) after an IT staffer scandal that only added to her unpopularity. [...] Schultz resigned from her post as chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee one year ago, after leaked emails revealed she and other party officials were trying to sabotage Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I., Vt.) campaign. She was infamously booed by activists, who shouted "shame" at her during a Florida delegation breakfast speech. Most recently, Schultz came under fire for employing Imran Awan, an IT staffer who has been under federal investigation since February for an equipment and data scam in the House. Schultz had only fired him when he attempted to flee the U.S. to his native Pakistan. The long knives come out for Debbie Wasserman Schultz. A dog whistle of sorts has been blown, audible to Democrat pros, alerting them to the problem Debbie Wasserman Schultz has become for the political family. Coming from Politico, the Democrat insiders' gazette, it will [be] heard by all. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a threat to national security. Many voters rejected Hillary Clinton because they thought she couldn't be trusted with national secrets after her reckless handling of sensitive State Department emails. Florida voters ought to dispatch Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz for the same reason. When it comes to security matters, the incumbent Democrat and former DNC chair makes Hillary look like a diligent TSA agent. And the news about her staffer trying to flee to Pakistan to avoid data-fraud charges is only the latest proof. Computer security at the DNC was so lax on Wasserman Schultz's watch that hackers burrowed deep into the network, leading to a massive data breach. They were thwarted, in contrast, when they tried to infiltrate Schultz's Republican counterparts. Florida Democrats [are] Desperate to Get Rid of Wasserman-Schultz. Watching Debbie Wasserman-Schultz go down the drain is nearly as gratifying as last November's election. Wasserman-Schultz deserves ever bit of blow back (and hopefully legal blowback) from this whole Imran Awan charade. Democrats in Florida are so desperate, they are telling Wasserman-Schultz to just go away. Judicial Watch: Media Ignore Lawsuit Against DNC, Wasserman Schultz. News outlets are ignoring a class-action lawsuit filed by 150 Democrat voters and donors against the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and its former chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, for the "breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, unjust enrichment, and negligent misrepresentation for secretly helping Clinton get the presidential nomination over Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders," according to Judicial Watch. The 35-page lawsuit claims that Wasserman Schultz and the DNC were biased towards Hillary Clinton and actively assisted her in winning her party's 2016 nomination, arguing that "the DNC was not neutral." We need answers in Democrats' congressional IT drama. If a Russian-born IT specialist with longstanding ties to former Republican National Committee chair Reince Priebus was arrested by the FBI trying to board a flight to Moscow after wiring hundreds of thousands of dollars abroad on a false pretense while leaving a trail of destroyed hard drives in his wake, it would be the subject of banner headlines and 24/7 speculation on cable TV. Instead we have the case of Imran Awan, a Pakistani IT specialist hired by then-Democratic National Committee head Debbie Wasserman Shultz, picked up by the Feds under similar circumstances to a collective yawn from the mainstream press. Awan's defense attorney, Clinton-connected Chris Gowan, blames the whole thing on Islamophobia. Wasserman Shultz's office also played the bias card, saying the investigation raises "troubling concerns about ... potential ethnic and religious profiling." Others aver that making anything more of this case than bank fraud is an exercise in fake news. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's pathetic 'right thing' defense. Only someone as brazenly arrogant as Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz could claim her own irresponsible behavior as a civic virtue. The former Democratic Party chair insists she "did the right thing" by not firing an IT aide after being warned he was under criminal investigation, "and I would do it again." Not only did she stand by Imran Awan, she tried to stonewall Capitol Hill investigators and even threatened them with "consequences" if they didn't back off. Awan is now charged with bank fraud — but that's the least of the story, which she chalks up entirely to anti-Muslim bias. Smashed Hard Drives Can Still Be Read : Whatever Is On Imran Awan's Smashed Hard Drives Likely Can Be Recovered. Somebody must have thought they were hiding something by smashing those computer hard-drives the FBI recovered from the home of Imran Awan, Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's former information technology (IT) aide. But odds are excellent they were wrong. Federal law enforcement authorities may have already recovered and read whatever was on those hard drives. "It depends on what happens, but even if it is hit with a hammer, it probably doesn't damage the platters that actually hold the data, which remains recoverable," said Tom Hakim, engineering supervisor for werecoverdata.com, a New York-based lab that specializes in difficult digital retrieval. The dots between Imran Awan, Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Seth Rich begin to connect. The Gateway Pundit reported that earlier this week that Washington DC area detective Rod Wheeler tweeted out about the high profile arrest of former DNC Chair IT specialist Imran Awan. Rod Wheeler told his Twitter followers there may be a connection to Imran Awan's arrest and "other" local cases. The "other" local case Wheeler refers to in his tweet is the unsolved Seth Rich murder. Wasserman Schultz talks about arrested aide Imran Awan. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz defiantly stands by her decision to keep an information technology aide on her payroll for six months after he was banned from the House network and fired by other members of Congress. "I believe that I did the right thing, and I would do it again," Wasserman Schultz said Thursday in an exclusive interview with the Sun Sentinel. "There are times when you can't be afraid to stand alone, and you have to stand up for what's right. "It would have been easier for me to just fire him," she said. The Weston Democrat did fire Imran Awan last week after he was arrested on bank fraud charges at an airport while trying to leave the country. AWANGATE: A CIA Black Operation That Used Pakistan's ISI To Do The Dirty Work. All the evidence points directly to fired DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz as the CIA's point-person in this ongoing crime spree perpetrated in collaboration with Pakistani brothers Imran, Abid, Jamal Awan, as well as their ISI associates. Remember those three names. However, it's Rep. Wasserman Schultz who is the CIA's pivotal inside agent for this seditious operation. Who does not know that Wasserman Schultz was the DNC Chair during the totally corrupted Democratic primary? The highly incriminating leaked emails from that extremely sordid period of US presidential history speaks volumes about the lack of ethics exhibited by the disgraced chairwoman. What's quite shocking is the degree of naked criminality that Wasserman Schultz boldly displays even to this very day. It's as though she has a power standing behind her that permits her to act with utter impunity. The American people have never witnessed such sheer audacity and chutzpah where it concerns treasonous conduct. Wasserman Schultz Says Laptop She Sought To Keep From Police Was Awan's, Not Hers. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz never actually saw the computer she fought to block the Capitol Police from examining as evidence in a criminal case against her IT aide by saying it was hers, she told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel Thursday [8/3/2017]. She threatened "consequences" on May 18 for the chief of the Capitol Police unless the laptop was returned — despite police contending it was needed to help determine whether a staffer may have violated the House's cybersecurity. "This was not my laptop. I have never seen that laptop. I don't know what's on the laptop," she said Thursday. She said it was Imran's laptop but purchased using taxpayer funds from her office. Hina Alvi: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know. Hina Alvi, 33, is the wife of Imran Awan, who was arrested for bank fraud while trying to leave the country for Pakistan. He and Alvi are part of a group of IT aides being investigated for a "procurement scam." Alvi is already in Pakistan with their children. Here's what you need to know about Hina Alvi. According to an affidavit that you can read below, Alvi was stopped by investigators on March 5, 2017 before she left Dulles International Airport with their three daughters, heading to Pakistan. According to the affidavit, her children had been abruptly taken out of school without notifying the public school system. The affidavit states that she had luggage and cardboard boxes with clothing, food, and household goods. Customs searched her bags and found $12,400 in U.S. cash. She and her daughters were permitted to board and have not returned to the U.S. since. Everything about Awangate smacks of the CIA's well-known MO. What the nation is now experiencing is a full-blown C.I.A. black operation. The U.S. Intelligence Community knows that the purposefully planted ISI espionage cell (i.e. Awan brothers et al.) has been outed. These black ops are routinely executed in any country that is about to become the victim of a full-scale color revolution (now known as the ongoing Purple Revolution). Everything about Awangate smacks of the CIA's well-known MO — contract out the most precarious espionage work to foreign intelligence agencies (e.g. ISI) so that the C.I.A. possesses plausible deniability should the op be exposed. Now that this critical piece of the CIA's unlawful surveillance of the US Congress has been revealed, The Company is desperate to quash an investigation any way they can. This is why the fabricated "Russia collusion" story simply won't die, and seems to get even bigger with each bogus non-story. Because the C.I.A. literally owns and operates every major MSM organ of propaganda, they completely control this utterly fake narrative. However, given the CIA's flagrant criminality in spying on Congress utilizing foreign intelligence agencies, they will not — cannot — relent in pushing the many transparent falsehoods about 'Russia hacking', etc. The Company (as the C.I.A. is known within intelligence circles) knows that it would go bankrupt in a day and night should the true back story be widely disclosed about Awangate. Congressional Investigation Into Wasserman Schultz IT Scandal Moves Forward. Congress is advancing an investigation into a growing scandal surrounding IT staffers working for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.), who are accused of stealing sensitive computer equipment from House lawmakers' offices, according to senior congressional sources who told the Washington Free Beacon the Democratic leader's refusal to answer questions could "merit resignation." Congressional leaders have now requested a formal briefing by Capitol Police into its investigation of several Pakistani House IT staffers who are accused of stealing sensitive computer equipment and of illegally penetrating congressional networks. Imran Awan, one of the staffers who worked for Wasserman Schultz and several other Democratic members of Congress, was arrested this week when trying to travel to Pakistan and charged with bank fraud after a months-long investigation that found he wired nearly $300,000 to that country. Have You Seen The Nutty Statement Imran Awan's Lawyer Released Yesterday? There are so many wild hairs of information emanating from the Awan Brothers case, and Imran Awan, the central figure in it, in the last day or so that it's hard to get at all of them. But let's start with the statement by the attorney for Imran Awan, who was arrested at Dulles International Airport on Monday as he attempted to flee the country, hat was released yesterday. [...] If this reads to you almost as a Clintonian mix of hyperpartisan clownery and implausibly false contentions, that's because it is just such a mix. Literally. It turns out that Awan's attorney is one Chris Gowen, who's a former Bill and Hillary minion. Awan Brothers Worked for Several California Democrats. Imran Awan and his brother Abid worked for several dozen Democratic U.S. Representatives, including several from California, according to a recent investigative report citing congressional staff data. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: If anyone needs investigating, she does. A few days ago, The New York Times announced this in a headline: "Trump Fuels Intrigue Surrounding a Former I.T. Worker's Arrest." Talk about turning attention. Talk about burying the lead. Talk about trying to paint the whole yearslong, Awan-related scandal as a tin-hat fantasy of President Donald Trump's. It was a headline that ran after the widely reported stories of Awan's dramatic arrest, made at the airport, en route to Pakistan via Qatar, shortly after he made a curious transfer of $300,000 to a bank he could access overseas — stories that were spun by Democrats as right-wing hit jobs against a poor victimized Muslim. Wasserman Schultz Can't Blame Racism For Her Growing IT Scandal. Pressure is rising for Schultz to explain why it is that she kept Imran Awan on her staff for months while he was under criminal investigation for stealing equipment and improperly accessing the House computer networks. Every other Democratic member had fired Awan soon after the Capital Police announced the probe back in February. But Schultz didn't fire him until after he was arrested by the FBI trying to flee the country in late July. Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., is pushing for a briefing from the Capitol Police with the House Oversight Committee, calling this "one of the all-time congressional scandals in the last 30 years." Ethics Watchdog Files Complaint Against Wasserman Schultz. A non-partisan ethics watchdog filed a complaint Monday with the Office of Congressional Ethics against Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz in relationship with the developing House IT scandal. The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT) focused the complaint on the fact that Wasserman Schultz continued to employ and paid House IT aide Imran Awan, even while he was under criminal investigation and banned from the House computer network. Little Ted Lieu and the Pakistani IT Scandal. Ted Lieu — the little-known Congressman from California — is making a big name for himself with his snarky, girlish attacks on President Trump. The snippy little pest has been beating the Russia Collusion drum for months now. And he is happily basking in the glow of all this unearned attention in much the same way Maxine Waters has. But Ted Lieu has a bit of a problem. You see, little Ted Lieu is one of the Democrat Congressmen who employed the Pakistani con artists and possible spies. IT hacker, Imran Awan, and his connections to Bill and Hillary Clinton. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's IT specialist could very well bring down the entire fake news Russia story that Hillary Clinton and her campaign staff put together in the run up to their election defeat to Donald Trump. This would explain why this Pakistani "hacker", who is now under arrest for bank fraud charges while attempting to flee the United States, has been curiously blessed with high powered Clinton attorneys. The rapidly growing scandal is seeing zero airtime on mainstream media. Liberal news outlets work overtime to hide a huge Democratic scandal. Watching news outlets go out of their way to hide a potentially huge Democratic scandal is almost funny. So-called journalists are too busy covering presidential tweets to report on a topic that might embarrass their friends. Welcome to the Imran Awan-Debbie Wasserman Schultz scandal or Compugrab, as I like to call it. Awan was the top IT aide to Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The FBI reportedly "seized smashed computer hard drives" from his home. He was "arrested trying to flee to Pakistan after wiring almost $300,000 to the country," according to The Daily Caller, which has owned the story because it does actual news reporting. Imran Awan coverage betrays media bias. A week has passed since the arrest of former House staffer Imran Awan, and the establishment media have given the event only superficial coverage. Awan, a Pakistani immigrant, was formerly employed by more than 30 House Democrats as an IT technician. Most members fired him following the announcement in February of an FBI probe into his potentially criminal behavior during his tenure as a Hill staffer. However, he remained an employee of Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz's D.C. office until he was arrested last Monday while attempting to flee to Pakistan. News of Awan's arrest first broke on Fox News the morning after he was apprehended, while CNN, NBC, and ABC took more than a day to cover the story. Thus far, CNN's only on-air acknowledgement of the controversy surrounding Awan has been an early-morning segment running just under four minutes, in which Jake Tapper and Tom Foreman emphasized that Awan had been arrested only for bank fraud, and Foreman dismissed all other allegations against Awan as conspiracy theories. Wasserman Schultz Aide In Pakistan Still Liquidating Assets In US. Imran Awan, a congressional aide arrested by the FBI after wiring $300,000 to Pakistan and misrepresenting the purpose, had previously wired money to the country and was frantically liquidating multiple real estate properties on the day he was arrested, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned. Imran's real estate properties provide a source of money that could be sent directly to Pakistan when two upcoming home sales close. Prosecutors have since filed paperwork saying they fear "the dissipation of the proceeds of the fraud and destruction of evidence in other locations." 'Collusion' Collapses: Dem Congressional Espionage Ring Takes Center Ring. While the press has been promoting a ridiculous and [...] backwards Russian collusion story, it has been sitting on a far bigger story: The likelihood that the Congressional Democrats financed and enabled the largest espionage ring in U.S. history. This story has been percolating on the internet for weeks with no mainstream media coverage. It got a tiny, misleading smattering of coverage this week when the FBI arrested Imran Awan, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz's internet employee, for trying to flee the country after transferring almost $300,000 dollars to Pakistan. Proliferating Scandals Make Mueller Investigation Ludicrous. [Scandal #4] Imran Awan: The story of the Pakistani-born IT fraudster who had access (for years) to computer data and materials of over two dozen House Democrats plus Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs committees threatens to become one of the most extraordinary scandals of our time. If Awan is merely some low-life con cheating the U.S. government out of a few dollars (okay — four million), why are the Clintonistas so concerned they have assigned one of their key consiglieres to head his legal defense? Why did Deborah Wasserman Schultz keep this obviously seriously corrupt individual on her payroll for months until he was finally arrested at Dulles on his way to Qatar by the FBI and the Capitol Police? The possibilities are so many they could fill a book by themselves. But the summa is that we have been told ad nauseum to trust our intelligence agencies. Stand By Your Awan. Luke Rosiak of the Daily Caller reports that Debbie Wasserman Schultz seemed prepared to pay cyber-probe suspect and IT aide Imran Awan even while he was living in Pakistan, if the FBI hadn't stopped him from leaving the U.S. This is only the latest indication of Wasserman Schultz's immense loyalty to Awan. As we noted here, the IT scandal involving the Awan family broke in February. It centered around the theft of the IT equipment and the "serious, potentially illegal, violations of House IT policies." Yet, Wasserman Schultz kept Imran Awan on her payroll until last week. Wasserman Schultz Seemingly Planned To Pay Suspect Even While He Lived In Pakistan. Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz seemingly planned to pay cyber-probe suspect and IT aide Imran Awan even while he was living in Pakistan, if the FBI hadn't stopped him from leaving the U.S. Monday. Public statements and congressional payroll records suggest she also appears to have known that his wife, a fellow IT staffer, left the country for good months ago — while she was also a criminal suspect. In all, six months of actions reveal a decision to continue paying a man who seemingly could not have been providing services to her, and who a mountain of evidence suggests was a liability. The man long had access to all of Wasserman Schultz's computer files, work emails and personal emails, and he was recently accused by a relative in court documents of wiretapping and extortion. Why Was Wife of DWS's Swindler Staffer Allowed to Leave the Country? The entire story merits attention and follow-up, working backwards from yesterday's arrest of Imran Awan, DWS's top IT staffer, whom she has gone to great lengths to protect despite the swirling investigation. Awan was bagged trying to flee to Lahore, Pakistan. According to the complaint filed in federal court in support of his arrest, Awan wired $283,000 in January from the Congressional Federal Credit Union to Faisalabad, Pakistan. He has been charged with bank fraud in a scheme involving mortgages on various properties owned by the Awan family. The FBI has also reportedly searched his home, seizing computer hard drives that had been smashed to pieces. For now, I want to focus on a narrow part of the story. In early March, as Jim details, Imran's wife, Hina Alvi, suddenly left the country for Lahore, by way of Doha, Qatar. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Pakistani IT Scammers. The case of Imran Awan, Debbie Wasserman Schultz's mysterious Pakistani IT guy, is not about bank fraud. Yet bank fraud was the stated charge on which Awan was arrested at Dulles Airport this week, just as he was trying to flee the United States for Pakistan, via Qatar. That is the same route taken by Awan's wife, Hina Alvi, in March, when she suddenly fled the country, with three young daughters she yanked out of school, mega-luggage, and $12,400 in cash. By then, the proceeds of the fraudulent $165,000 loan they'd gotten from the Congressional Federal Credit Union had been sent ahead. It was part of a $283,000 transfer that Awan managed to wire from Capitol Hill. How lucky can you get! Debbie Wasserman Schultz's brother will be handling the Awan case. That's Steven Wasserman, assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and word has it that he will handle the case against computer guru Imran Awan, who was arrested Tuesday on bank-fraud charges at Dulles International Airport. Awan was employed as a consultant by several congressional Democrats, only of which continued paying him after he was accused of stealing computers and data systems in February. Steven Wasserman, Brother of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, to Oversee Awan Family Investigation. In what may be one of the most remarkable conflicts of interest that we have seen in a long time, it appears that Steven Wasserman, Assistant Attorney for the District of Columbia who is the brother of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, has been tasked with overseeing the investigation of DNC IT employee Imran Awan, who was arrested earlier this week while attempting to flee the US and charged with bank fraud. Democrats' ex- IT guy charged with bank fraud: Media not doing their job? Former Congressman Debbie Wasserman Schultz's aide, Imran Awan, was arrested on Wednesday on bank fraud charges, but The Hill reporter Joe Concha says the story has been lacking coverage in the mainstream media. "This is a story that ABC and NBC decided they weren't going to cover. That's called the bias of omission or the sin of omission, and CNN and MSNBC same deal," Concha told FBN's Stuart Varney. Awan, a Pakistani native, was the IT man for Schultz and was paid over four million dollars for his work. He also had access to eight other Congressman's laptops, along with his brothers. The Bizarre Hacking Scandal That Democrats And The Press Are Happy To Ignore. When federal officials arrested Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's IT aide, Imran Awan, as he tried to flee for his native Pakistan, it was the latest twist to an already twisted scandal involving several House IT workers who possibly stole highly sensitive information from several Democrats. Stranger still has been the Democrats' nonresponse to this unfolding scandal. Imran Awan Case Needs Special Counsel 100 X More than Russiagate. To the embarrassment, more accurately the humiliation, of Deborah Wasserman Schultz, Nancy Pelosi, not to mention dozens of Democratic congressmen and women — all of whom used Imran Awan for help with their government computers — the Pakistani-born IT specialist was arrested Tuesday by the FBI at Dulles Airport for alleged bank fraud. He was trying to flee the country for Qatar. (Yes, that Qatar!) But that's just what the shrinks call "the presenting complaint." There may be a lot more to it — a whole lot more. At best, Awan is a fraudster who, working with his family, bilked the U.S. taxpayers out of over four million in IT fees and overpriced computer equipment. At worst he's an agent of Pakistan's ISI in league with Al Qaeda, the Muslim Brotherhood, or even ISIS. There are other possibilities in between that are also of a frightening nature, including (although more remote) the mysterious death of Seth Rich. First AP Story on Arrested Dem IT Staffer Makes Schultz Look Like the Victim. Just before noon, the Associated Press ended almost 18 hours of silence on the arrest of IT staffer Imran Awan yesterday [7/25/2017] as he was attempting to leave the country. The report spun the news in the most favorable way it could for beleaguered Democrats, making Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz look like the victim as it headlined her spokesman's claim that she fired Awan Tuesday after learning of his arrest. The fact is that Schultz has been involved in obstructing investigations into Awan's activities for months. Ronna Romney McDaniel: Debbie Wasserman Schultz Must Testify Before Congress on IT Staffer. Ronna Romney McDaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National Committee (RNC), is calling on former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) to testify before Congress on her now-arrested, just-fired IT staffer. McDaniel made the explosive demand in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News via phone on Wednesday afternoon, after news broke Tuesday night that Wasserman Schultz's IT staffer for more than a decade was caught trying to flee the country by federal law enforcement agents after wiring hundreds of thousands of dollars to Pakistan. 7 Fast Facts About Imran Awan, Wasserman Schultz's Jailed IT Vendor. [#2] Awan was still employed by Wasserman Schultz's office until he was arrested Tuesday night: According to Fox News reporter Chad Pergram, the former DNC head's office only terminated him after authorities moved in for the arrest as Awan tried to make his way out of the country via Dulles International Airport despite his being publicly under investigation for what appear to be embezzlement and fraud allegations. DC Detective of Seth Rich Murder: Follow the Awan Arrest Closely — Connect the Dots to "Other" Cases. Wheeler was hired by Seth Rich's family back in March to help solve the murder of their son. Wheeler spoke to Sean Hannity in May and dropped a bombshell. According to Wheeler the D.C. police tipped off the DNC that he was hired "to snoop around." Rep. Steve King: Imran Awan Had Access to 'All the Communication of the Foreign Affairs Committee'. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) talked about the ever-worsening scandal surrounding Imran Awan and his ex-employer Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz on Breitbart New's [sic] Whatever it Takes with Curt Schilling Wednesday [7/26/2017]. The Pakistan-born longtime congressional Democratic IT consultant was arrested by federal authorities as he tried to flee the country Tuesday, sending hundreds of thousands of dollars ahead of himself to Pakistan. Rep. King, a staunch conservative and ally of populist nationalism, stressed that the facts are anything but clear at this stage. The surface narrative itself was suspisious [sic] enough for King even before getting into the extensive criminal allegations against Awan and his brothers. Dems Try The Islamophobe Card In Defense of Wasserman Schultz's Arrested IT Guy. Crafty Democrats blame "massive Federal Islamophobia" for Rep. Debbie (aka 'Blabbermouth") Wasserman Schultz's, top IT Guy Imran Awan, who spread like a plague among her Democrat colleagues in the House, being outed by the FBI. House Dem IT Scandal Shoes Finally Start Dropping. If you've been reading the Friday LinkSwarms, one persistent story there is the House Democrats IT scandal. If you haven't been paying attention, three Pakistani brothers (Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan) who managed office IT for Democratic members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and other lawmakers, associate Rao Abbas, and two of their wives, Hina Alvi and Natalia Sova, were accused of improperly accessing data, stealing computers, not showing up for their jobs, and various other crimes. 'Get Her iPad For Imran': Wikileaks Email Connects Nancy Pelosi to Imran Awan. Wikileaks' Julian Assange dug up an interesting leaked email showing Debbie Wasserman Schultz's crooked former IT aide Imran Awan may be connected to Nancy Pelosi. Will arrested Wasserman Schultz IT aide seek 'A Better Deal' with prosecutors? All we've been hearing from the mainstream media are speculations about members of the Trump administration possibly having legal troubles, but so far the only people in DC getting busted seem to be Democrats. The Exploding DNC IT Scandal Is As Crazy As Fiction. In a plot Tom Clancy might have dreamed up, an IT staffer who'd worked for Democrats in Congress was arrested by federal officials and charged with bank fraud. Fox News has reported that officers and agents from the U.S. Capitol Police, the FBI and Customs and Border Protection, were involved in the arrest of Imran Awan at Dulles International Airport not far from Washington, D.C., as he tried to fly away to Pakistan. Awan has pleaded not guilty to bank fraud, but his strange case has all the feeling of the opening scene of a movie that might soon include political corruption and so much more. Democrats are being understandably quiet about the hill staffer who had been employed by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) as of Tuesday morning, but has now reportedly been fired. Politico has reported that Awan is "at the center of a criminal investigation potentially impacting dozens of lawmakers." The Bizarre Criminal Investigation of Schultz's IT Aide. Back in February, five House staffers were accused of "stealing equipment from members' offices without their knowledge and committing serious, potentially illegal, violations on the House IT network." A few days later, another odd twist was revealed, as at least four of the accused staffers come from the same family: Imran Awan, his wife Hina Alvi, Abid Awan, and Jamal Awan. [...] Then it got even weirder in late May, when Wasserman Schultz had a tense exchange with the U.S. Capitol Police chief during a hearing, appearing to threaten "consequences" over the police's refusal to return equipment belonging to her that is presumably connected to this investigation. [...] Why was Wasserman Schultz so impatient to get her computer back from the Capitol Police if it's relevant to a criminal investigation? Why did she keep Imran Awan on staff until this week? Who's got the money now? Cable Networks Black Out Coverage on Wasserman Schultz IT Scandal. Major cable news networks have given no coverage to the burgeoning scandal involving IT staffers to former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis. Reporting by the Daily Caller News Foundation has revealed that Wasserman Schultz's top information technology staffer Iman Awan was arrested Monday after trying to flee the country amidst investigations into Awan concerning banking fraud and a criminal cybersecurity probe. Awan wired over $280,000 to Pakistan after the FBI recently recovered multiple smashed hard drives from Awan's home. Busted Pakistani IT Staffer for the DNC Lawyers Up With... Clinton Cronies. The scandal involving an entire family of Pakistanis who served as IT staffers for various Democrat Congress-critters keeps widening. To recap, a trio of Pakistani brothers (Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan) who managed IT for key Democrats including the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence have been accused of improperly accessing data, bank fraud, stealing computers, not showing up for their jobs, and various other crimes. Former DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz has played a key role in covering up for the Awan family, refusing to fire Awan for months even after he was the target of multiple investigations, preventing the FBI from accessing hard-drives, and going so far as to threaten police for seizing Democrats' computers as evidence. Wasserman Schultz's IT Aide Arrested At Airport After Transferring $300k To Pakistan From House Office. Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's top information technology (IT) aide was arrested Monday [7/24/2017] attempting to board a flight to Pakistan after wiring $283,000 from the Congressional Federal Credit Union to that country. He attempted to leave the country hours after The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group revealed that he is the target of an FBI investigation, and the FBI apprehended him at the airport. Credit union officials permitted the wire to go through, and his wife has already fled the country to Pakistan, after police confronted her at the airport and found $12,000 in cash hidden in her suitcase but did not stop her from boarding, court documents show. Wasserman Schultz Avoiding Reporters Since Awan Arrest. Embattled Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has avoided facing any media since her law enforcement arrested her former IT staffer Imran Awan Tuesday on bank fraud charges. Wasserman Schultz, who walked down the House Capitol steps late Wednesday afternoon [7/26/2017] following remarks she made on the floor, caught site [sic] of The Daily Caller's reporter and nervously turned around and ran back up the steps with her staffer in tow. The Miami Herald reported Thursday night that her spokesman told a reporter Wednesday, as she walked to the floor of the House, that she would not answer questions about Awan. Shaffer: Evidence That Wasserman Schultz Used Pakistani Imran Awan For Malevolent Activities Against Bernie Sanders. Retired Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer said Thursday [7/27/2017] on Tucker Carlson Tonight that there is now evidence that then-Democratic National Chairwoman and current Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz used Imran Awan for "malevolent activities" and "manipulative things" against Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primary race. [Video clip] Trump Fuels Intrigue Surrounding a Former I.T. Worker's Arrest. To hear some commentators tell it, with the help of his family and a cushy job on Capitol Hill, Mr. Awan, a Pakistani-American, had managed to steal computer hardware, congressional data and even — just maybe — a trove of internal Democratic National Committee emails that eventually surfaced last summer on WikiLeaks. It helped that the story seems to involve, if only tangentially, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Florida congresswoman who is the former chairwoman of the committee and an ally of Hillary Clinton's. The Daily Caller, with almost two dozen articles on the family, has led the pack in reporting the story, packaging new details that have dribbled out of the investigation into a growing web of material, even as few in the mainstream news media paid attention. That is until Monday, [...] Dulles Does For Debbie. On Wednesday night [7/26/2017], Mark joined Tucker Carlson live on Fox News to discuss the arrest of Debbie Wasserman Schultz's principal IT staffer while at Dulles Airport attempting to flee the country. As Steyn argued, this story has everything they've been looking for in the "Russia investigation" — except that it involves the wrong party. Cracks developing in Awan Dam. Peculiarly, Awan's primary employer, former DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz, kept him on her staff until just before he attempted to flee, even though he had been banned from the House network owing to corruption investigations and was unable to perform the work for which he is being paid from taxpayers funds. Bizarrely, DWS was videotaped at a hearing openly demanding that evidence on the Capitol Police investigation be returned to her and threatening consequences for the Capitol Police, a creature controlled by Congress. I leave it to the lawyers to argue if this constitutes obstruction of justice, but it certainly looks as though she has something to hide on that hard drive. House Dem IT Suspects Wanted Untraceable Payments — and Sure Enough, Millions Disappeared. A Pakistani family under criminal investigation by the U.S. Capitol Police for abusing their access to the House of Representatives information technology (IT) system may have engaged in myriad other questionable schemes besides allegedly placing "ghost employees" on the congressional payroll. Imran Awan, his wife Hina, and brothers Abid and Jamal collectively netted more than $4 million in salary as IT administrators for House Democrats between 2009 and 2017. Yet the absence of signs of wealth displayed among them raise questions such as was the money sent overseas or did something other than paychecks motivate their actions? House Dems Hired A Fired McDonald's Worker As Their IT Guy. Multiple members of Congress hired as their information technology (IT) administrator an individual whose most recent job experience was being fired from McDonald's, The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group has learned. Spokesmen for the members won't say what their bosses knew at the time, but the hiring decisions highlight the role — witting or unwitting — the representatives played in what turned out to be an alleged multi-million-dollar IT scam in Congress with serious implications for national security. Imran Awan Brothers Met for Several Hours with Obama. Seems the Pakistiani IT guy who tried to flee the country after smashed hard drives were found at his house not only has ties to several Democrats on The Hill, but also to Obama. Arrested DNC IT Staffer Owed Money to... Hezbollah Terrorists. Congressional aides suspected of criminally misusing their access to House computer systems owed $100,000 to an Iraqi politician who is wanted by U.S. authorities and has been linked to Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Middle Eastern terrorist outfit. Imran Awan and four of his relatives were employed as information technology (IT) aides by dozens of House Democrats, including members of the intelligence, foreign affairs and homeland security committees. The aides' administrator-level IT access was terminated earlier this month amid a criminal probe by U.S. Capitol Police of a suspected security breach, including an off-site server housing congressional data. Democrat IT Spy Tries To Run To Pakistan: We Connect Some Dots For You. Just yesterday [7/25/2017] we learned that 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 told our friends at Zero Hedge. 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 four 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 Wasserman-Schultz. Hill Reporter Lays Into Media on Wasserman Schultz Scandal Cover Up. On Thursday [7/27/2017], The Hill reporter Joe Concha put the media on notice. Speaking about the news that a staffer for Florida Congresswoman and former Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz had been arrested trying to flee the country, he blasted the liberal media for ignoring the scandal. Speaking on FOX Business's Varney & Co., one of the few channels giving this breaking news airtime, Concha laid into mainstream media bulwarks, saying, "This is a story ABC and NBC decided they were not going to cover. That's called the bias of omission, or the sin of omission. CNN and MSNBC, same deal." Wasserman Schultz Fleeing Aide is a HUGE Story, So the Liberal Press is Killing It. The arrest of Pakistani Imran Awan as he tried to flee the country is an enormous story. I've followed it since February, when the House of Representatives Sergeant-at-Arms banned Awan and his brothers from the House computer network. The Awans provided IT consulting for 40 Democratic members of Congress. They had full run of the networks, computers and files of these elected officials and their staffs. The amount of damage they could have done (and now it seems likely, did do) is inestimable. Imran Awan Arrest Still Being Ignored By Corrupt Media. The media has something to hide with Imran Awan and the corrupt Democrats. Someone with the same name wrote an article for CNN in 2014 about "Islamophobia." There have been no responses from CNN as to whether this is the same Imran Awan who was arrested at Dulles Airport yesterday or someone else who just [by] coincidence had the exact same name. Media Curiously Silent as FBI Seizes Smashed Hard Drives From Wasserman Schultz IT Aide's Home. FBI agents seized smashed computer hard drives from the home of Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's information technology (IT) administrator, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation. 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, an individual whom FBI investigators interviewed in the case told The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group. FBI Seized Crushed Hard Drives From Home of Debbie Wasserman Schultz' IT Aide. Over the past few months, the story of the Awan brothers has been largely ignored by mainstream media. However, 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. While official charges have not yet been filed, allegations of wrong doing vary from simply overcharging taxpayers for congressional IT equipment to blackmailing members of Congress with secrets captured from emails. FBI Seized Smashed Hard Drives From Wasserman Schultz IT Aide's Home. FBI agents seized smashed computer hard drives from the home of Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz's information technology (IT) administrator, according to two sources with knowledge of the investigation. 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, an individual whom FBI investigators interviewed in the case told The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group. An additional source in Congress with direct knowledge of the case, 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. Democrats Heard They May Have Been Hacked And Didn't Even Care. House Democrats professing moral outrage over the hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) have remained apparently indifferent to the likely penetration of their congressional computer systems, declining to distance themselves from five Pakistani House server administrators who are the subject of an ongoing criminal investigation. House authorities banned the five administrators from the congressional information technology (IT) network in February as part of a Capitol Police criminal investigation in what Politico described as "serious, potentially illegal, violations on the House IT network." Imran, Abid and Jamal Awan, Hina Alvi, Natalia Sova and Rao Abbas set up the email accounts and computer systems for dozens of members of Congress and their staffs, and they could read all emails and files on those systems. House Dems' IT Administrator A Charming, 'Cunning' Con Artist, Associates Say. A Pakistani-born House IT administrator suspected of misusing access to congressional files is a charming, dishonest manipulator with an unquenchable thirst for money, a dozen people who know him personally said in interviews with The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group. Relatives said that Imran Awan had such a penchant for taking advantage of people that his stepmother called the police and accused him of extortion, while his father changed his last name so he wouldn't share it with his son. An actual scandal you won't see on CNN. This is an actual breach of security perpetrated by three brothers (and their family) who had unbridled access to several Congressional Democrats' computers, emails, phones and devices. And not just any Congressional Democrats either. These Pakistani brothers had an all-access pass to the data belonging to members of the House Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees. The story broke in February when brothers Abid, Imran and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks after the breach was discovered. Dem's Muslim IT Staffer Suspected of Security Breach Fled to Pakistan. A criminal suspect in an investigation into a major security breach on the House of Representatives computer network has abruptly left the country and gone to Pakistan, where her family has significant assets and VIP-level protection, a relative and others told The Daily Caller News Foundation's Investigative Group. Hina Alvi, her husband Imran Awan, and his brothers Abid and Jamal were highly paid shared IT administrators working for multiple House Democrats until their access to congressional IT systems was terminated Feb. 2 as a result of the investigation. Capitol Police confirmed the investigation is ongoing, but no arrests have been reported in the case. The Awan connection. Poltico reported in February that five House staffers were under criminal investigation amid allegations that they stole equipment from more than 20 member offices and accessed House IT systems without lawmakers' knowledge. The five staffers all worked for Democratic congressmen and have links to Pakistan. The Daily Caller reported that one of the suspects has hightailed it to Pakistan. Something is happening here. One can only infer that some serious breach of security involving a spy ring seeking to misappropriate confidential and classified information is involved. Arrested Dem IT staffer's attorney is Major Clinton ally. The attorney for a prominent Democratic congressional employee at the center of a major criminal investigation has deep ties to the Clinton machine in Washington. Attorney Chris Gowen is serving as the lawyer for Imran Awan, a Pakistani-American IT professional who was apprehended at Dulles Airport this week as he reportedly attempted to leave the country for Pakistan. Awan has been charged with bank fraud (which the Daily Caller reports as a potential "placeholder" charge for much more serious coming charges), and the FBI has been deeply involved in the process, leading some to suspect that there may be a foreign espionage component to the investigation. Wasserman Schultz IT Staffer Arrested at Dulles Airport Trying to Flee Country. Former House IT staffer Imran Awan was arrested Monday night [7/24/2017] at Dulles International Airport where he was "trying to leave the country," Fox news reported Tuesday evening. [...] Imran and his Pakistani-born brothers, Abid and Jamal Awan, are currently under criminal investigation by U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI on suspicion that they accessed congressional computers without permission and stole equipment. There is also evidence of "financial schemes that extend beyond the Capitol Police's purview and may expand to Pakistan," according to The Daily Caller. Wasserman
Schultz IT Aide Apprehended Trying to Flee Country. This scandal is very real and shocking in its scope.
There are credible reports that Awan and his family members: Wasserman Schultz aide arrested trying to leave the country. Imran Awan, a House staffer at the center of a criminal investigation potentially impacting dozens of Democratic lawmakers, has been arrested on bank fraud and is prevented from leaving the country while the charges are pending. A senior House Democratic aide confirmed Awan was still employed by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) as of Tuesday morning. But David Damron, a spokesman for Wasserman Schultz, later said that Awan was fired on Tuesday [7/25/2017]. Awan pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to one count of bank fraud during his arraignment in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Imran Awan is Also a Writer for CNN! This is of course assuming this Imran Awan is the same guy arrested today. I don't know if someone else with the same name, just coincidentally wrote the article. We'll see if CNN has anything to say. If they deny this is the same Imran Awan who was arrested today, then maybe it's a different person. If they remain silent on the matter, which they have done so far, then it probably is the guy arrested at Dulles. Wasserman Schultz Admits She Violated Security Policies, Blame Others For Doing So (Unexpectedly). Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose office equipment U.S. Capitol Police seized in a criminal investigation into congressional network security violations, admitted she violates official information security policy and blamed the House's chief administrative officer for not stopping her. In a May 17 appropriations hearing on Congress' administrative budget, Wasserman Shultz said she had violated the policies "for years and years and years." She also sought to find out how much House authorities might know about her internet usage, asking "Are members monitored?" Wasserman Schultz Admits Hill IT Security Violations, Blames House Administrators For Not Stopping Her. Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose office equipment U.S. Capitol Police seized in a criminal investigation into congressional network security violations, admitted she violates official information security policy and blamed the House's chief administrative officer for not stopping her. In a May 17 appropriations hearing on Congress' administrative budget, Wasserman Shultz said she had violated the policies "for years and years and years." She also sought to find out how much House authorities might know about her internet usage, asking "Are members monitored?" Police are investigating Wasserman Schultz's longtime information technology (IT) aide Imran Awan for theft and funneling congressional data from members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Committee on Homeland Security and Committee on Foreign Affairs. Why is Debbie Wasserman-Shultz trying to commandeer evidence in the House IT security breach scandal? In early February, five employees of the House of Representatives were banned from the House IT network. The five former House employees are the subject of a criminal investigation by the Capitol Hill Police. They are accused of stealing equipment and accessing House IT systems without lawmakers' knowledge. The former employees were "shared" IT employees. "Shared" means they worked for several offices, performing IT functions. The five employees worked for over 20 members, to include members from the Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees and former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman, U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Shultz (D-Fla.). You may remember Wasserman-Shultz has had IT issues in the past when she was chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in 2016. The salaries of the employees should have been the first clue something was not right. Beranton J. Whisenant, Jr. Criminal probe on Capitol Hill staffers remains eerie. The criminal probe into a cadre of Capitol Hill techies who worked for dozens of Democratic lawmakers remains shrouded in mystery, months after their access to congressional IT systems was suspended. It's still not clear whether the investigation by the Capitol Police into the five staffers, who all have links to Pakistan, involves the theft of classified information. The staffers are accused of stealing equipment and possible breaches of the House IT network, according to Politico, which first reported on the investigation in February. Wasserman Schultz Threatened Police Chief For Gathering Evidence On Her IT Staffer's Alleged Crimes. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz threatened the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police with "consequences" for holding equipment that she says belongs to her in order to build a criminal case against a Pakistani staffer suspected of massive cybersecurity breaches involving funneling sensitive congressional data offsite. The Florida lawmaker used her position on the committee that sets the police force's budget to press its chief to relinquish the piece of evidence Thursday, in what could be considered using her authority to attempt to interfere with a criminal investigation. Debbie Wasserman Schultz Obstructs Justice in Muslim Congress Hacking by Threatening Police. Since the Dems seem to be an obstruction of justice kick, here's some actual obstruction of justice. By the former head of their organization. Luke Rosiak has been staying on the story of the Muslim IT staffers in Congress. And the latest twist is nasty. Wasserman-Schultz Threatens Capitol Police — For Doing Their Job. Another day, another scandal for Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the disgraced congresswomen from Hollywood, Florida. After being forced to resign from her position as DNC chair following revelations she was actively cheating Senator Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primary, you'd think she learn to just be quiet. Not so fast friends, she has now threatened Capitol Police with "consequences" if they do not return IT equipment used by one of her staffers that is currently being probed by multiple agencies. 
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