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.
Sorry but how would you like to wake up to that every day? Ewwwww.....
Another possibilty: She was promised something big if she delivered the USA with a nice big bow to Soros or to some other enemy of ours.
PING!!!
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 {AWan).
Article and comments, esp #35, #39, #51, #59
Thanks, b4its2late
What DWS has tried to do for this guy seems to be beyond boyfriend/girlfriend.
Maybe Awan arranged the hit on Seth Rich...
You mean the guy and his wife?
Or the guy and DWS
or DWS and the guys wife.
The world is full of possibilities.
Clintioncide her
remember wee countrywide gave sweetheart lions to members of congress. Now WFargo is up to their eyeballs again. never underestimate the greed or arrogance of people in power in congress s or banking. What’s a little seed heart deal to make a vindictive powerful democrat happy and keeping her from pointing her venom in their direction?
You must have a congressional bank or
They will have to go to a real bank and mix with real people
They need a place to write bad checks.
They need a place to get their dumber relatives a job.
Too stupid to bank online or use an ATM
Easier to wash bribe money from lobbyists
Because they can
The Webb Hubbell look
Well, it look’s like I am being show wrong in my prediction that the syndicated national news would be successful in burying the Awan story.
And I am so glad to be wrong.
But it’s still too early to celebrate.
Glad though to see Freepers pick up on the Rostenkowski parallel that I mentioned yesterday. Because this Congressional Credit Union slush fund scandal will be a huge broadside to the Deep State and will serve to keep it in the news whether CNN-NBC-MSNBC-CBS-ABC want it or not.
Normal procedure for any court, big or small. when they don’t want to give up discovery they drop the charges. The defendant in these type of cases assumes all the risk.
Bank fraud was the stated charge on which Debbie Wassermann Schultz's IT aide, Imran Awan, was arrested at Dulles Airport, as he was fleeing the United States for Pakistan, via Qatar.......the same route taken by his wife, Hina Alvi, in March, when she suddenly fled, with $12,400 in cash (NOTE: it is against the law to take more than $10,000 out of the US ithout declaring it.).
By the time of Imran's arrest, the proceeds of his fraudulent $165,000 "loan" from the Congressional Federal Credit Union had been wired to Pakistan.... part of a $283,000 transfer that Awan managed to wire from Capitol Hill.
The conniving Imran pulled it off by pretending to be his wife in a phone call to Capitol Hill's true believers---the Congressional Federal Credit Union. Told that his proffered reason for the transfer (“funeral arrangements”) wouldn’t fly, “Mrs.” Awan promptly regrouped: Now “she” was “buying property.”
Asking no more questions, the compliant Congressional Federal Credit Union wired the money......to Pakistan. One assumes the trusting Congressional Federal Credit Union had every expectation of getting repaid (cue laugh machine here).
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TALKING POINTS---The credit union employee (or bank officer) that approved the Imran loan and wire-transfer needs looking into. They had to know that was a farce. and one assumes Cong Debbie had to sign off on any financial transactions of her employee.
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It’s on now.
Never-Trumpers, don’t be surprised is Jeff doesn’t get your approval to move forward.
Bill Kristol, I’m talking to you.
She is singing.
ping
D&mn idiots should have made Debbie a co- signer
The Daily Caller News foundation interviewed multiple current and former Imran tenants about his odd collection of rent.
Cristal Perpignan said Imran instructed her to pay the rent to Imran’s friend, Rao Abbas, a US govt employee, who lived in the basement of the home she occupied.
Abbas was on the House payroll as an IT worker but Perpignan said the tax-paid Abbas spent his days at home in the basement.
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Soon after Imran began working for Wasserman Schultz in 2005, his two brothers and two of their wives — plus Rao Abbas and another friend — began appearing as IT staffers on the tax-paid payrolls of other House Democrats. Collectively, the Awan group has been paid $4 million tax dollars (that we know of) since 2009.
Other Hill IT staffers interviewed by TheDCNF said the Awans and their IT friends were often absent from weekly Hill meetings and inter-office email exchanges. The tax-Paid Rao Abbas spent his days at home while cashing US govt paychecks.
One of the Hill staffers said some of the computers the Awans managed for Democrat lawmakers were being used to transfer Congressional data to an off-site server. Some of the Democrat lawmakers were members of key House intl committees.
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Shortly after the criminal probe was revealed in February, Imran abruptly moved out of his longtime home on Hawkshead Drive in Lorton, Va, (one of about 12 homes he owned) and listed it for rent on a website that connects landlords with military families.
One of new tenants — a Marine Corps veteran married to a female Navy Officer — said he found “wireless routers, hard drives that look like they tried to destroy, laptops, [and] a lot of brand new expensive toner.”
No, he’s not blind- Wasserman’s face looks just like a sheep’s arse
Had to get it through while Obama was still in office.
Guarantee it’ll come out that he was wooing her and she fell for his taqiyya.
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