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Andrew McCarthy: Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Pakistani IT Scammers
NRO ^ | Andrew McCarthy

Posted on 07/29/2017 6:45:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

There’s more than bank fraud going on here.

In Washington, it’s never about what they tell you it’s about. So take this to the bank: 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. He pulled it off — hilariously, if infuriatingly — by pretending to be his wife in a phone call with the credit union. Told that his proffered reason for the transfer (“funeral arrangements”) wouldn’t fly, “Mrs.” Awan promptly repurposed: Now “she” was “buying property.” Asking no more questions, the credit union wired the money . . . to Pakistan.

As you let all that sink in, consider this: Awan and his family cabal of fraudsters had access for years to the e-mails and other electronic files of members of the House’s Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees. It turns out they were accessing members’ computers without their knowledge, transferring files to remote servers, and stealing computer equipment — including hard drives that Awan & Co. smashed to bits of bytes before making tracks.

They were fired in February. All except Awan, that is. He continued in the employ of Wasserman Schultz...

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201703; andymccarthy; awan; awanbrothers; awanitgate; dws; imranawan; itgate
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1 posted on 07/29/2017 6:45:19 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

This is the biggest story of the past 20 years, and the media is stonewalling.......


2 posted on 07/29/2017 6:49:45 AM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (Is it not too late to appoint a special counsel to investigate Hillary's crimes?)
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To: RoosterRedux

They weren’t hired in spite of the fact they were scumbags, they were hired specifically because they are scum bags.

why were they paid so highly?

Because their primary job was partisan spying, not fixing broken computers and maintaining the router.

this is basically a return to Watergate, but the modern liberal version, in which the Awan Brothers function as CREEP or as the Watergate burglars.


3 posted on 07/29/2017 6:50:21 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: RoosterRedux
They were fired in February. All except Awan, that is. He continued in the employ of Wasserman Schultz...

Okay, students, how do we spell blackmail and was this an example?

4 posted on 07/29/2017 6:51:47 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Voting for Trump to be our President, made 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Colluders, MAGA!)
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To: RoosterRedux

It turns out they were accessing members’ computers without their knowledge,

Highly Doubtful!!

This is easy to fix, use the case of the Bikers in Waco as a roadmap and ARREST every last Congress Critter and STaff member for their part in this act of FELONY ESPIONAGE.


5 posted on 07/29/2017 6:52:12 AM PDT by eyeamok (Idle hands are the Devil's workshop)
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To: gaijin

If you think about it, in AwanGate Debbie Wasserman Schultz was simply following the example laid out by Hillary, who set up her own pop up CIA in order to topple Gaddafi in Libya, leaving the post-war spoils to her business friends and contributors.

Hillary charted the course.


6 posted on 07/29/2017 6:52:45 AM PDT by gaijin
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-- Because their primary job was partisan spying ... --

I think their primary job was international espionage, and a few DEMs were in on it.

7 posted on 07/29/2017 6:54:13 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: RoosterRedux

Debbie is a downer and criminal too.


8 posted on 07/29/2017 6:54:35 AM PDT by tflabo
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To: RoosterRedux
Most taxpayers struggle to make a living and do not have much free time for other things. But Imran was a US govt employee working for Democrat Congressmen; he got hired and mentored by Democrat Cong Debbie Schultz.

As a Democrat employee, Imran found plenty of time (and had mucho tax dollars) to pursue his private money-making interests:

<><> he owned 12-or so houses....

<><> he rented out some of these homes....

<><> he ran a car dealership....

<><> he ran an export company to Pakistan

<><> he had a computer systems sales company (selling stolen govt gear?)

<><> and a Blackberry cell phone “repair” operation.

Imran's thirst for money was unquenchable. He falsified apps to get several home loans from the Congressional Credit Union. He got the credit union to wire-transfer monies abroad.

QUESTION: Did Debbie DEMento have to sign off on her employee's mega-dollar transactions at the Congressional Credit Union? Particularly Imran's shady wire-transfer of some 300,00 tax dollars to Pakistan?

9 posted on 07/29/2017 6:55:07 AM PDT by Liz ( If ignorance is bliss, why is Maxine Waters so angry all the time?)
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Debbie Washerwoman may soon have an occupation that fits hand in glove with her name.

From what has been seen of her curls and tresses, the new occupation will soon go down the drain.


10 posted on 07/29/2017 6:56:18 AM PDT by V K Lee (DJT: "Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war. ")
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If the following is true, the Paki ITGATE
thug, Awan, is even worse than we thought.

Arrested Muslim Democrat Staffer Revealed To Have Dark Secret True Daily Staff July 28, 2017 News 2 Comments
With each passing day, we learn more and more about of the dark and murky past of Pakistan IT staffer Imran Awan. The former employee of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz is not only being accused of stealing hardware from ranking Democrats and sending sensitive intel to foreign groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, but now it appears Imran Awan may have been interested in watching Pedophile-centric YouTube videos.

ibankcoin.com reports:

YouTuber Tracy Beanz has discovered that the Pakistani DNC IT Staffer arrested Monday night for bank fraud while attempting to flee the country was a fan of several pedo-centric YouTube channels – including one featured on Comedy Central’s Tosh.0 program.

Imran Awan, the long-time employee and friend of Debbie Wasserman Schultz – currently under investigation by the FBI and DC Capitol Police for a variety of alleged crimes unrelated to his Monday arrest (and whose lawyer oddly mentioned ‘pizzagate‘ in a post-arrest statement), subscribed to YouTube channel “Seven Super Girls” – which has over 12 billion views, and features children performing in sexualized ‘bits.’

Originally published by the Gateway Pundit.

http://truedaily.news/2017/07/28/muslim-democrat-staffer-revealed-to-have-dark-secret/


11 posted on 07/29/2017 6:56:47 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Voting for Trump to be our President, made 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Colluders, MAGA!)
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To: RoosterRedux
Russia, Russia, Russia

to

Debbie, Debbie, Debbie

12 posted on 07/29/2017 6:58:21 AM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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DWS has been unusually quiet for being known as Blabber Mouth.


13 posted on 07/29/2017 6:58:46 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee)
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The obvious reason DWS kept Awan on her payroll after all other stupid Democrats had finally dropped them.........She was bribing him, paying him off in hopes that he would not squeal on her. Not a huge payoff but still a payoff.

DWS shot herself in the foot because this looks so suspicious. Next stop won’t be jail, it will be the loony bin. Just you watch. She will connive for sympathy.


14 posted on 07/29/2017 6:59:38 AM PDT by dennisw (Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. The third time it is enemy action.)
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If she hired him, then she directed him.

We need to know what she paid him to do.

15 posted on 07/29/2017 7:00:18 AM PDT by Slyfox (Where's Reagan when we need him? Look in the mirror - the spirit of The Gipper lives within you.)
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If she were to use NSA or CIA people to do this it would have involved public funding, debate and consultation; in short a lot of people would learn about it.

You can’t do that if your goal is the extremely narrow aim of waging a war on your personal political enemies, like smearing and defeating Bernie, just as one example.

The key to pulling it off would be to keep the number of people in the no to an absolute minimum.

So she used desperate, unethical Pakistanis, one of whom had the stellar job history of having been fired from McDonald’s.

she understood these were greedy, mandible-clicking insects intimately familiar with Baksheesh, the Urdu word for corruption.


16 posted on 07/29/2017 7:02:25 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: The_Media_never_lie

The Republican Senate is stonewalling Trump’s FBI appointment. They want to give McCabe more time for evidence tampering/destruction.


17 posted on 07/29/2017 7:06:51 AM PDT by odawg
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To: dennisw

I’ve been watching and waiting to see Dems marched off to jail for two decades now. The only one I saw was Jim Traficant who was a moderate. I’m not holding my breath - The Blabbermouth has the goods on a lot of folks in Washington. If she could speak that way to Capitol Police, she could easily speak that way to the Justice Dept.


18 posted on 07/29/2017 7:07:21 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: RoosterRedux
There’s more than bank fraud going on here

I believe that affidavit was used to quickly get a warrant to stop this guy from leaving and never returning to the U.S.

Reports are that DWS is in shock and is a recluse mess. The only thing that makes sense ( warning...not pretty thought to come ) Imran was stoopin DWS.
19 posted on 07/29/2017 7:10:27 AM PDT by stylin19a
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To: RoosterRedux

It certainly appears that this started as a kickback scheme, where the Awan clan were paid exorbitant salaries in return for cash payments to their employers, the Venal party. Once a public official accepts kickbacks from an employee, the employee owns the official.

None of this would ever have come to light if Hillary had won the election.


20 posted on 07/29/2017 7:12:50 AM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (Psephomancers for Hillary!)
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