Posted on 08/08/2017 1:20:31 PM PDT by b4its2late
Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz pressured officials at Congressional Federal Credit Union to write a loan to a husband and wife from Pakistan now charged and accused of bank fraud, according to federal law enforcement sources.
Wasserman Schultz, who was the leader of the Democratic National Committee at the time, intervened in the loan process to help guarantee Imran Awan and wife Hina Alvi a $165,000 loan which the couple quickly wired to Pakistan far from the reach of US regulators, FBI sources confirm. Imran was arrested on bank fraud charges in July while attempting to flee to Pakistan. His wife fled the country to Pakistan in March after the FBI caught her at Dulles International Airport with undocumented cash. She was suspected of bank fraud by the FBI who allowed her to leave the country anyway.
Awan, until his arrest, was employed as the IT specialist for Wasserman Schultz and dozens of other congressional Democrats since 2004. His wife was also on the congressional payroll. The Congressional Federal Credit Union is not open to the public but is normally reserved for Congress and members of their staffs.
According to FBI sources familiar with the criminal case, Congressional Federal Credit Union officials were hesitant to write the couple the loan because underwriters flagged portions of the Awan’s application as problematic and risk loaded. That was until Wasserman Schultz is believed to have made overtures to the federally-backed credit union to vouch for Awan and his spouse. FBI sources said the home equity credit line was approved despite the red flags, namely: The Awans rented the home linked to the loan application, but the FBI said the bank does not extend home equity lines to rental properties. The Awans never told the bank it was a rental property, the FBI said.
FBI sources would not confirm whether Wasserman Schultz wrote letters or emails to bank hierarchy or made telephone calls to push for the loan. Likewise, FBI sources did not confirm whether Wasserman Schultz was the target of a parallel FBI investigation.
Loan officers and underwriters made several inquiries to the Awans during the loan application process to try to clear up glaring discrepancies. according to the FBI. Emails sent by Awan and his wife to the credit union’s underwriters originated from an IP address linked to Wasserman Schultz’s congressional offices, FBI sources confirmed.
According to the FBI, the Awans omitted assets and liabilities both on the bank application as well as their federal tax returns which improved their debt-to-income ratio. But underwriters at CFCU caught these errors and wanted additional documentation on outstanding mortgages and rental income linked to the Awans which were never disclosed by the couple. In January 2017, CFCU requested Alvi file an Occupancy and Financial Status Affidavit to prove the couple was using the address as a primary residence (even though they were not), according to the FBI. Days later the loan was approved.
During that waiting period, Awan and his wife made several inquiries into the status of the loan, again, via email from computer networks linked to Congress, FBI sources said.
Within hours of the loan approval — on Jan. 18, 2017 at noon — Awan’s wife Alvi requested the $165,000 loan plus an additional $118,000 from her CFCU accounts be wired to two individuals in Faisalabad, Pakistan, according to bank records.
But before the credit union initiated the international wire request for $283,000 to Pakistan, officials from CFCU contacted Alvi on her cell phone to confirm the wire, according to the FBI. Bank officials initially balked at commencing the wire transfer because Imran changed his voice on the phone to pose as his wife. First he said the funds were to be used in Pakistan for funeral arrangements, the FBI said. Then Imran, still in character posing as his wife, changed gears after CFCU said they were not going to wire the funds. Imran said on the call he would search online for a permissible reason to wire the funds, according to the FBI. Imran — again posing as his wife — claimed the funds were for a purchase pf property and not for a funeral. After a delay, the funds were wired to Pakistan, FBI sources said. The call was tape recorded and is now in evidence in the Awan fraud case.
FBI sources would not say whether Wasserman Schultz intervened to push CFCU to proceed with the problematic wire transfers. FBI sources said that CFCU officials did suspect Imran was using a female voice to pose as his wife who originally initiated the wire request electronically.
Yet the funds were still wired.
Awan and his wife, as well as his two brothers are also targets of an investigation into an alleged procurement scam where the group is suspected of stealing equipment, Blackberry phones, and hacking House IT systems without permission.
Wasserman Schultz could not be reached for comment.
Webb gets a lot of grief but he’s right quite often.
The latter is the cause of the former.
I believe it was “loans” not a loan. I think that’s what George Webb was reporting....
Sessions should have had dozens of politicians arrested by now. All talk... no action.
Instead, he's hunting marijuana plants.
Sessions should have had dozens of politicians arrested by now. All talk... no action.
Instead, he's hunting marijuana plants.
Is Awan blind?
If could close his eyes and think of Pakistan, 4 million closes the deal.
LOL!
When is the last time a lib went to jail?
Gosh, it just keeps getting deeper for DWS. At this point, I’d say her life expectancy is about 8 weeks. The investigators have a lot on her now, she knows way too much, and she seems to be the kind who would sing like a canary easily. The Dem PTB simply will not tolerate her existence.
DWS should be arrested as an accomplice, which she obviously was.
Imran Awan has collected $1.2 million in salary since 2010, (first hired in 2004) and his brother Abid and wife Hina Alvi were each paid more than $1 million.Imran first came to Capitol Hill in the early 2000s and Abid joined him in 2005. Imran’s wife Hina Alvi was added to the payroll in 2007, while Abid’s wife, Natalia Sova, appeared in 2011. Finally, in 2014 the youngest sibling, Jamal, joined the payroll in 2014 at the age of 20 with a salary of $160,000.
Also their friend...
Rao Abbas was paid $85,049 in 2016.
Ever notice how closely she resembles Chelsea Clinton? Is there some sort of genetic relationship?
Sounds like a blackmail payoff to me.
Your tax dollars at work, helping Muslim crooks raid the Democrat congressional computer system where secrets used to be kept. Where is the investigation of this?
Lock her up
ping
Bullying a bank?
If you or I tried that . . .
My guess is that it’s being deep sixed by the Deep State.
This gal is super-ambitious. D/W/S actually has a spreadsheet of "people who owe her"....people she did favors for.
D/W/S was especially keen on getting into the good graces of the half-caste Royal Idiot b/c it suited her crass self-serving ambitions.
Strangely enough, on the surface it seemed like the half/caste kept shrugging her off.....as she pursued him w/ a vengeance.
Distilling the info, one concludes, D/W/S was a willing "doer of tasks," but the Royal Idiot had to give the appearance that they were not connected.
The Pakis could not have (A) gotten security clearance, (B) gargantuan salaries, and, (C) gotten visas .....without some pretty high-level help.
The grotesque salaries could be one way D/W/S and Hill Democrats got paid off........via campaign contributions, kickbacks, wire-transfers, and the like.
NOTE Imran's brother, Abid, has retained an attorney specializing in money laundering litigation.
...FBI sources confirm....
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Oh, for pete’sake! Stop the dang leaking.
I want to see DWS and all other guilty Rats prosecuted, and I admit to clicking on any thread that I see that may give me more info about the investigation. But, really, can they just proceed with the investigations without revealing any of the info until the trials?
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