Posted on 08/02/2017 12:47:30 PM PDT by Whenifhow
Alvi Awan was suspected of helping swindle $283,000 from banks and was busted carrying over $12,400 in undocumented cash when the FBI caught up with her at Dulles International Airport in March.
But incredibly Awan — the wife of Imran Awan, the IT specialist and con man employed by Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who was arrested last week for bank fraud — was never detained or forced to stay in the United States. Her arrest in fact was blocked by then-FBI Director James Comey and then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, FBI sources said.
So federal agents and Capitol Police watched as the former Democratic congressional aide and suspected bank fraudster stepped onto Qatar Air1ines Flight 708 to Doha, Qatar, on her way to Lahore, Pakistan with her three daughters, bulging luggage and $12,400 in undocumented cash — a federal crime in itself. Awan had essentially been given a license to disappear from the clutches of US law enforcement, never likely to return to the United States. She was in the wind, courtesy of the FBI.
“This was a call from the top, Comey and McCabe,” a well-placed FBI agent said. “Anyone else would have been held and with that cash she didn’t declare she could have been locked up. The agents at Dulles wanted to hold her but they were told to stand down.”
Comey has since been fired and McCabe currently is Acting FBI Director until the new FBI director is sworn in.
The lead FBI case agent at Dulles was Brandon Merriman who has been on the job for a little more than a year and was investigating Imran and Alvi Awan’s bank schemes. FBI sources said he did not have the political juice to plead for Awan’s arrest and as an agent, there is little he could have done to keep Awan in the states since his bosses decided to put her in the wind. Merriman also put together the arrest warrant for Imran Awan in July. A portion of that warrant is included below where the FBI agent acknowledged he knew that when Alvi Awan stepped onto that flight she would never return to the United States.
So why then did the FBI put her in the wind?
If the FBI wanted to explore and build a criminal case against Wasserman Schultz, the former DNC chairwoman and Clinton consigliere, and even firm up the case against Imran Awan, holding leverage over Alvi and Imran Awan would make more than good sense. So the release of Alvi back to Pakistan — essentially a US law enforcement no-go zone — speaks volumes about the FBI brass wanting to protect Wasserman Schultz and essentially her long-time mentor Hillary Clinton.
“When you have a guy’s wife locked up and you’re looking at the husband, you have leverage to get him to cooperate,” a FBI insider said. “This is really great leverage and it wasn’t even put into play.”
If this was simply a bank fraud case, Alvi Awan would still be in the United States and her husband would have been locked up long before July. FBI sources said they had sufficient evidence of bank fraud in December 2016 yet no arrest warrants were filed until July. There is little doubt the Awans were being protected by FBI bosses, federal law enforcement sources said.
For instance, it is a felony to export more than $10,000 from the United States absent filing a currency transportation report. FBI sources said Alvi Awan did not file the report. Yet she was allowed to leave the country anyway. And with the cash and the FBI’s explicit knowledge she defrauded at least two financial institutions.
As a sidebar, Alvi Awan would also have served as a key witness in the emerging case building against Wasserman Schultz, the DNC, and what role Hillary Clinton played into the emerging labyrinth of Awan-related security breaches.
BELOW: FBI Agent Brandon Merriman admits in an arrest warrant filed for her husband in July that when the Bureau allowed Alvi Awan to walk away, they would never see her again in the United States.
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Alvi Awan was suspected of helping swindle $283,000 from banks and was busted carrying over $12,400 in undocumented cash when the FBI caught up with her at Dulles International Airport in March, but, her arrest in fact was blocked by then-FBI Director James Comey and then-Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, FBI sources said
Article and comments - many great comments
See graphic at #107
Head’s up....Lou Dobb’s calling for a Call to Action...
End Mueller Special Counsel - and it gives phone numbers
Thanks, Jane Long
Sessions has a man-crush on Rosenstein:
‘Attorney General Jeff Sessions praised Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein on Tuesday, calling his second-in-command a “great deputy attorney general.”
After Rosenstein introduced the attorney general at the National Summit on Crime Reduction and Public Safety in Bethesda, Md., Sessions thanked him for the warm welcome.
“Warmed the cockles of my heart,” Sessions said. “Wasn’t that [the] Churchill saying, whatever it means? So Rod, thank you for those kind words and for your leadership and your decades-long commitment to fighting crime and seeking justice.”’
Great post Dave, took me a while to discover it but its all there just like you said.
This is all going into a rather massive, complex case file. Realize, with each new broken law, each new side criminality, it extends Sessions’ team’s workload and timing.
Exactly Whenifhow,you got it.NOt the easiest to find but Wray is no solution.NOt to be trusted.
“What dirty deeds of the last 12 years were Comey and McCabe not involved in??”
Bigger question: Why the hell is McCabe’s butt still in a chair at the FBI? Trump made a serious mistake not ousting him on 1/21/17. Even without knowing he was a cohort traitor with Comey, the mess with his wife’s campaign donations was enough of a reason to get rid of him.
THanks so much Whenifhow. I missed this one!Gotta turn the Marlins off and watch George. Small price to pay!!LOL!
That’s boilerplate greetings and salutations stuff. I’d like to see where Sessions “played a significant role in the selection of Rosenstein”.
Great idea Jane!
Sometimes I wonder about that. Why not can the lot of them. We are never going to get any favorable press anyway,what is the down side?
Very true. My druthers would have been to issue an executive order on Jan 20th as soon as he got to the White House saying every single Obama appointee in the executive branch had 48 hours to clean out their desks and leave. It would have been long over by now.
...and now, like all the swamp creatures do he is getting millions for writing a fictional recount of his career to revise history.
Now we are getting somewhere!!Give the drivebys something to chat about other than Russia, Russia, russia.
I posted the following at
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3568078/posts?page=19#19
thinking there was some resemblance of a connection. And I still think that.
From https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/07/trumps-fbi-pick-has-troubling-history-digital-liberties
President Bush’s sweeping constellation of warrantless surveillance programs, codenamed STELLARWIND, played a key role in the mythos that surrounded the last two FBI Directors.
Wray was reputedly one of the senior Justice Department officials ready to resign if then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey chose to do so over STELLARWIND’s legality—though Wray himself wasn’t aware of its existence at the time.
Wray has since praised then-FBI Director Bob Mueller’s willingness to challenge President Bush over those surveillance programs, telling WIRED, “I think that the great thing about [people with] strong moral compasses is that they don’t have to hand-wring. When they’re uncomfortable, they know what they have to do.”
P.S. Movietime starts in eight minutes so a reply to a reply may not be forthcoming until much later.
No, go to the link. Sessions had planned a boilerplate thank you, and then his emotions carried him away.
Rosenstein hired hitman Mueller, who loaded up on pro-Hillary anti-Trump Democrat partisan attack lawyers, assembled to do Democrat opposition research and take Trump down. After all that—which Sessions facilitated—he said this about Rosenstein:
“So Rod, thank you ... for your leadership and your decades-long commitment to fighting crime and seeking justice.”’
In Sessions’ view, destroying Trump is “fighting crime and seeking justice.”
No other way to read it.
Wray opposed warrantless wiretapping.
So?
Amazing isn’t it.
Just another example of the criminal pattern history of avoiding arrests by the critters of the Deep State!
For sure Dave.
Sometimes I am awed just thinking about all the years they have had to load the fed. govt. with really bad guys.If Trump can get enough help from the good guys left in govt. he can get rid of some of them,that’s probably our best hope.
JudicialWatch/Fox: Chris Farrell on “Lou Dobbs Tonight”: Atty Gen. Sessions, the Russia Probe, & Awan Brothers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-54F59IP2iU&feature=youtu.be
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Thanks for that video. It’s the first time the congressional credit union has been mentioned on air, that I have seen.
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