Posted on 08/26/2017 3:06:58 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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The more you learn about Democratic IT scammer Imran Awan — the more you see the profile of a bold and careless criminal mind.
Imran Awan worked for Debbie Wasserman Schultz for thirteen years since she came into office in 2004 as a Florida representative. She only fired him this past week and would have kept paying her “IT expert” even when he was living in Pakistan.
The Awan brothers IT ring had access to emails and computer data from an estimated 800 lawmakers and staffers.
Three Pakistani brothers who managed the IT affairs for several Democratic government officials were relieved of their duties in February on suspicion that they accessed specific computer networks without permission, also known as hacking.
Imran Awan, who started working for Wasserman Schultz in 2005, received $164,600 in 2016, with close to $20,000 of that coming from Wasserman Schultz.
His brother Jamal, who started working as a staffer in 2014, was paid $157,350.12 in 2016. Abid, who started working in 2005, was paid $160,943 in 2016.
Imran’s wife, Hina Alvi, who was employed as a staffer since February 2007, was paid 168,300 in 2016. Rao Abbas was paid $85,049 in 2016.
Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan were barred from computer networks at the House of Representatives in February.
Most of the House Members fired the Awans subsequently. Only Debbie Wasserman Schultz kept Imran Awan on the pay roll up to the day he got arrest for Bank Fraud after trying to flee the country.
The rest of the family fled since months to Pakistan along with hundreds of thousands of tax-payer money they mysteriously were able to wire.
Democrats were willing or unwillingly compromised by the Awans and Sensitive Information leaked to foreign Enemies! (Muslim Brotherhood – Yemen Raid with dead soldier for example?) Many of them have Seats on Committees that handle highly sensitive information.
According to Redditt — Imran Awan is now released with an GPS ankle monitor until his preliminary hearing on Aug. 21.
More information is coming out on Imran Awan and his criminal activities. Awan pretended to be his wife when requesting a loan from the Congressional Federal Credit Union and got it! He had the credit union wire $165,000 to PAKISTAN – no questions asked. Andrew McCarthy at National Review reported:
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.…
…Congressional-staff salaries are modest, in the $40,000 range. For some reason, Awan was paid about four times as much. He also managed to get his wife, Alvi, on the House payroll . . . then his brother, Abid Awan . . . then Abid’s wife, Natalia Sova. The youngest of the clan, Awan’s brother Jamal, came on board in 2014 — the then-20-year-old commanding an annual salary of $160,000. A few of these arrangements appear to have been sinecures: While some Awans were rarely seen around the office, we now know they were engaged in extensive financial shenanigans away from the Capitol.
Awan also threatened and tried to extort cash from his stepmother after his father’s death. The Daily Caller reported:
Their own stepmother, a devout Muslim, called police in Virginia and said they used high-tech devices to wiretap her home and tried to extort her into signing papers that would give them access to cash stored in Pakistan in their deceased father’s name.
The stepmother, Samina Gilani, said in court documents that Imran said he was “very powerful” and would have her loved ones kidnapped in Pakistan.
Court records show that their father changed his last name, and two relatives said that was because he detested illegal behavior by his sons.
In public lawsuits in Fairfax County, Va., the brothers have been accused of life insurance fraud as well as fraud involving a car dealership.
This is a description of a complete slimeball. Who kicks his stepmother out of her home when she has just lost her husband? The more you read about Imran Awan the more you see the picture of a complete soulless criminal.
So why was he hanging around Wasserman Schultz for 13 years?
Now this… In an interview with the Sun-Sentinel this week Wasserman-Schultz defended her decision to keep Imran on the payroll because there were racial and ethnic profiling concerns.
This was after her IT specialist was barred from the House computer networks in FEBRUARY!
Imran and his wife Hina Alvi were indicted last week on four charges related to mortgage fraud.
Here are photos of Imran and his indicted wife Hina Alvi during better times. Via Democracy Raised from the Dead.
Investigators found several computer servers at the Awan home after they moved out. The Awan brothers also left four government-issued laptops and servers, pried-open hard drives, and twenty Blackberries in the home rented by Marine Andre Taggart.
The Daily Caller reported:
Imran and his wife Hina Alvi were indicted on four charges related to mortgage fraud on Thursday.
They were charged with making false statements on a loan application, unlawful monetary transactions, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud.
Hina Alvi has been in Pakistan with the couple’s children since March, and federal authorities said they do not expect her to return to the United States.
The FBI said Imran and his wife made false statements to obtain a $165,000 home equity loan from the congressional credit union in January.
Days after receiving the loan, they wired nearly $300,000 to two individuals in Pakistan, according to the FBI affidavit.
As reported earlier today on The Gateway Pundit
Yeah,...No Problemo...he brought a Mausoleum.
Every time I read something about this, I can’t help but think Wassername Schultz is guilty of treason!
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The Daily Caller reported:
Imran and his wife Hina Alvi were indicted on four charges related to mortgage fraud on Thursday.
They were charged with making false statements on a loan application, unlawful monetary transactions, bank fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud.
Hina Alvi has been in Pakistan with the couple’s children since March, and federal authorities said they do not expect her to return to the United States.
The FBI said Imran and his wife made false statements to obtain a $165,000 home equity loan from the congressional credit union in January.
Days after receiving the loan, they wired nearly $300,000 to two individuals in Pakistan, according to the FBI affidavit.
As reported earlier today on The Gateway Pundit
Do you know you’re not suppose to change the title? Or does that rule not apply to you?
Look at that photo of DWS.
Stay off drugs or you’ll look like this!
Are the 20 blackberriers mentioned anywhere....need the serial numbers.
Rumor:
Awan is the son of the Pakistani officer who placed a bomb on the airplane of former Prez Zia, killing him.
Any truth to it..?
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There,....I confessed...Sorry.
A newer photo might be the one toward the bttom of the article.
Those guys were spies. Trying them for bank fraud is going to sweep it all under a giant rug. There are probably lots of people who are dancing to a tune played by whoever the Awan brothers were working for. It could be the source of a lot of Trump's opposition.
Can Debbie Wassermann Schultz produce a documented paper trail of religious profiling complaints?
<><> Does she have reports filed under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act that prohibits workplace segregation based on religion?
<><> Does she have complaints filed w/ the EEOC, an agency that monitors religious discrimination?
<><> Does she have reports filed w/ the Congressional Islamic Staff Association?
<><> Does she have letters from constituents complaining about her Muslim hires?
<><> Does she have reports filed w/ the Civil Rights Commission?
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I didn't think so.
Investigators found several computer servers at the Awan home after they moved out.
The Awan brothers also left four government-issued laptops and servers, pried-open hard drives, and twenty Blackberries in the home rented by Marine Andre Taggart.
PING!!!
Update on Awan spy ring
Investigators found several computer servers at the Awan home after they moved out.
The Awan brothers also left four government-issued laptops and servers, pried-open hard drives, and twenty Blackberries in the home rented by Marine Andre Taggart.
Article and comments
Thanks, Ernest_at_the_Beach
The facts thus far suggest the Awan gang was running the oldest of scams......selling computer gear out the back door after first claiming it was stolen to authorities.
The Daily Caller reported that NY Democrat Yvette Clarke’s COS routinely called a House help desk to inquire about the write-off process but did not ever convey the highly unusual scale of the dollar figure, the official said.
However, the Democrat member (or high-level staffer with financial responsibility in the member's office) would still have to sign a voucher for each such purchase.
This raises questions regarding how Democrat Yvette Clarke wouldn’t have noticed (A) that tech equipment was being purchased, (B) in quantities a member's office might not plausibly need, (C) but never actually materialized at the member's office b/c it had been delivered to Imran's residence.
NOTE: Democrat Yvette's Clarke's $120,000 write-off of tech devices covers only Cong Yvette Clarke’s office. About 80 other Democrats employing the Pakis have not been audited for similar patterns.......as yet.
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Here's the sap-happy Dem blithely "aiding and abetting" the theft of US-govt issue equipment.
"Oh, it's just a measly 120,000 tax dollars.....just write it off."
Cong Yvette Clarke describes herself as a "Caribbean-American."
The 120,000 dollar tech purchase would have bought each of Yvette Clarke's 16-man staff an unbelievable 10 iPods and 10 iPhones each.
Re #11:
Give me 10 minutes and I’ll have forgotten all about it as I bitch, whine and moan about something else. :)
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