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Top Lawmaker Pushes Trump Admin to Freeze Pakistani Assets Tied to IT Breach Scandal
freebeacon.com ^ | Adam Kredo

Posted on 08/03/2017 9:15:28 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

A leading lawmaker on the House oversight committee is urging the Trump administration to pursue a court order freezing recent wire transfers to Pakistan made by Democratic IT staffers who are accused of stealing computer equipment from House lawmakers' offices and penetrating internal congressional networks, the Washington Free Beacon has learned.

Rep. Ron DeSantis (R., Fla.), an oversight committee member and chair of its national security subcommittee, petitioned Attorney General Jeff Sessions to disclose if federal investigators are moving to freeze recent wire transfers of nearly $300,000 by Imran Awan, a top IT staffer for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D., Fla.) and scores of other Democrats who was recently arrested on charges of bank fraud.

Awan and several of his family members are believed to have stolen computer equipment used by Congress and penetrated sensitive networks linked to the House Foreign Affairs Committee and other networks.

Awan and others allegedly involved in the scandal remained on the congressional payroll for months after their activity became public, prompting calls by senior lawmakers for an independent investigation in Wasserman Schultz's handling of the situation.

Awan is also believed to have defrauded the House of Representatives by using taxpayer funds to buy computer equipment that is now missing.

(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: itgate

1 posted on 08/03/2017 9:15:29 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

If a transfer to the Pakistani bank was made by SWIFT clearing house and the Federal Reserve, the money is gone.

The question is: if the FBI had a hold on such transfers in place before it was made.


2 posted on 08/03/2017 9:17:29 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: RoosterRedux

Meanwhile, withdraw 5000 dollars cash two days in a row and you get scrutinized by the teller, reported to the DHS for structuring a withdrawal over 10k. If you get pulled over on the way home, and a cop sees the money, it will be seized on the roadside.
But if you are a moslem, you can wife hundreds of thousands around freely, carry 12k onto a plane, and the FBI director himself will approve you leaving.

Bastards all! The dual justice system in this country is utterly un-American.

Why don’t things like this happen immediately? This has been brewing for a long time. They day these guys were identified months ago, a Federal Prosecutor should have got a court order that same day.


3 posted on 08/03/2017 9:23:43 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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To: RoosterRedux

These IT staffers have so many charges against them they could easily be made to talk to avoid lengthy jail time. This would reveal a lot of shenanigans by their Democrat employers. But they probably won’t be pressured to do so because Republicans never hold anyone accountable for anything.


4 posted on 08/03/2017 9:23:50 AM PDT by Starboard
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Sombody very high up in a previous admin wanted the Pakis to disappear.......they know plenty.

The Pakistan govt apparently considers Imran very important b/c of his braggadocio----representations about his political power in the US, saying he's "from the Congress." The grateful Paki govt even provides Imran with a VIP police escort.

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This is very easy to unravel. Pres Trump, AG Sessions, and SOS Rex Tillerson call in the Pakistani Ambassador for a "little chat." The Pakistani Ambassador surely knows plenty---like (a) what important issues Imran is "advising" Cong Debbie about, (b) the whereabout of Imran's wife, and, (c) the rest of the Paki IT gang.

Call President Trump: Comments: 202-456-1111 Switchboard: 202-456-1414

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FACTS ON FILE

<><> About half of House Republicans have signed a letter urging we cut off all aid to Pakistan. They consider it a terrorist-sponsoring nation.

<><> T-Rex calls in the Paki Ambassador, and speaking privately, gives him one week to show up with (a) evidence on Wasserman-Schultz, and, (B) Imran's wife and the rest of the IT gang.

<><> Either that or the State Dept will weigh in----and support adding Pak to terrorist list......cutting off all foreign aid.

<><> When the Pakis cough up the evidence, and the IT gang, (as they surely would), T-Rex turns it over to Pres Trump and to the DOJ (not the FBI).

<><> The DOJ then oversees the case; the FBI is given a time-certain to provide corroborating evidence (so they can't Mafia it out).

5 posted on 08/03/2017 9:28:04 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Anyone still wonder if another 9/11 is coming? It’s coming folks, and it’s coming soon.

When Pakistani brothers with radical backgrounds are given free and full access to the intelligence committee computers, when they can wire hundreds of thousands at will in and out of the country. When the CIA, NSA, and the FBI Director himself say its fine...

When all that is the case, the islamicists are free to operate however they please here. All that is missing is the will to attack, and we -already know- they have that.
It’s coming again people. Get your CCW, always carry, and be ready. Who knows what form it will take.


6 posted on 08/03/2017 9:31:12 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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Can you envision Democrats holed up in their offices as L/E comes to call?
Hope no Democrat is overlooked; Democrats are pretty sneaky:

Interactive at Daily Caller web site.

7 posted on 08/03/2017 9:43:16 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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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 a passel of 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 shady mega-dollar transactions at the Congressional Federal Credit Union? Particularly Imran's shady wire- transfer of some 300,00 tax dollars to Pakistan?

8 posted on 08/03/2017 9:44:58 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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Money laundering has to be factored into all the Awan clan's IT skills.

Official documents, court records and multiple interviews suggest the Awan crew may have engaged in government fraud, tax evasion, bank fraud, extortion, bankruptcy fraud and insurance fraud. More alarmingly, money (our tax dollars from funding bills?) could have been funneled overseas.

Imran's brother, Abid Awan, has hired high-profile attorney James Bacon who specializes in money laundering litigation. Abid was on the White House visitor's list....spent 7 hours there.

(Excerpt) Read more at thegatewaypundit.com ..

9 posted on 08/03/2017 9:48:37 AM PDT by Liz (Four boxes to defend liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo; used in that order.)
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Sessions won't do a damned thing about it. Congress won't do a damned thing about it. State won't do a damned thing about it.

If I am wrong about any of these things, I'd be a very happy man.

10 posted on 08/03/2017 9:50:15 AM PDT by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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I would think it’s too late already....the barn door remained open for the swindle(s) to take place...Some heads should definitely roll. How about the individual at the Congressional Credit Union who gave the idiot a chance to come up with a better reason for wiring the money in the first place. THAT person should be LOCKED up! I’ve never heard of anything so idiotic!

Kind of like telling a bank robber to come back with a better reason for robbing a bank and then “I’ll hand you all the money in the safe.”


11 posted on 08/03/2017 10:31:13 AM PDT by Thank You Rush
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This should be a no brainier.


12 posted on 08/03/2017 10:35:27 AM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee)
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To: PGR88

If that credit union was doing it’s job, as in following Bank Secrecy Act, there should have been multiple SAR’s filed on the entire family if they have been taking loans, or laundering cash through the credit union and wiring funds multiple times to Pakistan. SAR’s end up in the FBI field office so they should have known. Unless those SAR’s were then circular filed. Or there is an insider being paid off in the credit union.


13 posted on 08/04/2017 11:17:04 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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