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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“He is connected to these guys too.”
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In what ways is Wray “connected” to them?
What she should have gotten was a cavity search instead of a send off.
“The other one was the wife of the nightclub shooter, Mateen.”
She didn’t flee nor hide. She flew to the SF Bay Area and lived with relatives for awhile.
Comey probably paid for her air fare and told his worthless goons to monitor her.
Wray opposed warrantless wiretapping.
So?
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That’s not the way I heard it/ read it.
Wray was aligning himself with Comey and Mueller to get the surveillance program entrenched.
I missed that tidbit.
You will have to use a search engine. Or you can read several of my posts on this thread for examples
IIRC..wray was at the hospital during the showdown ready to resign with comey. It was quite an orchestrated event while ashcroft was still on drugs after surgery
Respectfully, Wray 100% opposed warrantless wiretapping. At the time, so did Mueller and Comey. The Trump-haters construe this as Wray being “connected,” to Mueller and Comey. The only way for Wray to have avoided this “connection,” would have been for him to support warrantless wiretapping.
Iow, the Trump-haters are not being rational. What’s new.
‘[Wray] also played a part in a piece of Washington lore, siding with then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, then-FBI Director Robert Mueller and then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey in opposing the use of warrantless wiretapping – a dispute that famously culminated in a 2004 bedside standoff involving a hospital-bound Ashcroft.’
Just looked . Saw different accounts of where wray was when he offered to resign. Some say hospital. .others say at DOJ.
And then there was Enron....
I read the link.
Then you read that Sessions departed from his planned remarks to gush over Rosenstein.
And don't they REALIZE that is what he is doing? Are they NOT preparing for this? And in the meantime, they are entrenched in his administration.
Losing a lot of support in Congress. Ryan is just itching to allow an impeachment committee, even while pretending to be neutral about it. The committee would just continue Mueller's work, maybe even have him give what he's got to date, which is probably only stuff he got about Trump's businesses.
His legislative agenda would pay a big price. The media would not stop talking about it for months.
I think if he laid the groundwork for it, had a bunch of rallies to talk about Mueller and what he is doing and maybe a few oval office addresses, he might be able to keep it from being so bad. The best thing he could do is get the prosecutions of Hillary, Comey, DWS, going for real. That would keep the opposition off balance.
In my opinion you’re reading too much into it.
Breitbart claims “Sessions was reported to have played a significant role in the selection of Rosenstein”. This needs to be substantiated.
I would be more inclined to doubt Breitbart if Sessions weren’t so effusive about Rosenstein. The link I posted isn’t the only time Sessions got carried away praising his Deputy.
I thought Christopher Wray got approved by the Senate for the FBI. Why is McCabe still in there?
How do you know this?
Why do you think Trump would pick scum?
I agree with your post entirely.
But why do Islamic women, when in a western country, still support Islam?
I agree with your post entirely.
But why do Islamic women, when in a western country, still support Islam?
Drudge is silent on this story and the Seymour Hirsch story. Something is up...
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