Posted on 07/04/2018 11:52:37 AM PDT by Pollard
OK, I think this is a genius move by Jeff Sessions.
The supposed DOJ Awan case 'cover up' has upset many. But when you read the fine print, the plea only applies to DC (thread at link).
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Neither, just tired of comment streams like your who come across as a petulant child stomping their feet when it only shows a vapid expression of ignorance and no substance.
So, if you are so wigged out with what is going on respond, is Trump not his boss and responsible for what he is doing?
If he is still here you obviously do not like it but the President does so your opinion, at the end of the day is really just ignoring this.
So declare, if Donald Trump is his boss then take it up with him!
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There has been talk that Awan got a plea deal b/c he fingered even bigger fish.
Seems he sang so good about these bigger fish, the feds
gave him a bit of a pat on the back via the plea deal.
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it’s plausible. I hope that is correct.
iirc, the original pictures they keep using for stock on irman awan crops wjc out of that same original pic???? (it has been posted with both in picture here on the forum)
awan supposedly logged in to the white mosque many times???
there are a lot of bigger fish upstream from awans. crossing my fingers.
REALITY CHECK-- 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 exclusively for House Democrats. Imran got hired by and was 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’s listed as a real estate broker, confirming he spends 40 hours a week as a broker....in Virginia; <><> he owned 12-or so houses....in virginia <><> he rented out some of these homes....in Viginia <><> he ran a car dealership....in Virginia <><> he ran an export company to Pakistan....in Virginia <><> he had a computer systems sales company (selling stolen govt gear?)...in Virginia <><> Imran ran a Blackberry cell phone “repair” service....in Virginia.
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?
Was D/W/S used as a reference on Awan's apps? On his broker's license? Did D/W/S write letters of recommendation for Awan?
If you break a Federal law in California, a Federal prosecutor can empanel a GJ and take action against you in Florida
Then it wouldn't matter where the charge is brought. But I don't really see the logic to it, or the claim of brilliance, yet.
Awan's brother Abid is listed on the WH visitor's log as having an 8-hour WH visit.
BTW, Abid has hired a lawyer who specializes in money-laundering cases.
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Can’t you quit licking Sessions boots?
Robert Barnes, who usually does a pretty good job on all things legal, thinks this is fantasy.
It was first the response by Wray & Sessions to the OIG report (more than the report itself, which was tepid, but still damning) now this that has caused me to severely reassess. Sessions is doing an incredible number of good things from stopping human trafficking to arresting MS-13 to Medicare fraud.
Unfortunately, leading the assault on the Dem corruption is not one of them.
That is EXACTLY what I would expect in a case where Imran is too stupid to be the ringleader.
He was enabled by his Congressional facilitators, but I question motive.
Cui bono?
Wishful thinking
“petulant child stomping their feet”
Wow that’s a pretty strong label you are applying there.
I am aware of a lot of Sessions boot lickers that post here and it appears that most of them don’t have a clue as to what is going on.
1. We are well aware that POTUS is Sessions boss and we know that if POTUS fired Sessions it would cause a lot of political trouble. It is the job of Congress to investigate the DOJ and to impeach. Once Congress does their job POTUS is free to remove any official that Congress has found guilty. The Senate would be forced to confirm the new appointees.
2. Paul Ryan has stopped Congress from doing much of anything with regard to the DOJ. Ryan is as dirty as the rest of them and he knows he wouldn’t last another term.
3. Jeffery Sessions declared upon his appointment that he would not go after anyone in the prior admin. That includes Hillary, Debbie and that Becara guy in California, no matter what laws were broken.
4. The whole plan has been to stall until the next election and thanks to Ryan, Sessions and others the plan is working.
I wonder if a constituent would have standing to pursue a case in the Congress Critters home district. Discovery would be delicious.
Thanks for your response, will add you to the new crop of trolls that have appeared here recently as typical no nothings spouting the same old stuff
What you really fear is the investigations that have been ongoing with almost 500 investigators looking into and developing cases against the Deep State. Trying to get the cases into a DC court where it will be swept under the rug, rather than expose the whole conspiracy.
Nice try, a future in comedy awaits you
Awan’s brother Abid is listed on the WH visitor’s log as having an 8-hour WH visit.
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manage a trois w/ barry & mike?
Good post Colo.
REFERENCE--TAX-PAYING AMERICANS BEING BILKED BY PUBLIC CORRUPTION,
BY CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES OF INDIVIDUALS ON THE PUBLIC PAYROLL
NEED TO GO THIS ROUTE
Strengthen and enact state RICO laws to nail greedy criminal govt officials.
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BACKSTORY The 1980 Georgia General Assembly was concerned about the increasing sophistication of various criminal elements on the public payroll (and those in elective and appointive office). The Georgia General Assembly then adopted the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), patterned after a similar federal law.
(RICO is routinely used to try to prove that a legal business was being used for illegal means, and, in at its inception, RICO was used to prosecute drug traffickers or organized crime members).
In recent years prosecutors have applied RICO to crooked government officials: (1) those accused of using their public offices for personal gain, and, (2) tax-paid officials of govt agencies using public monies to flout the law.
To bring a case under Georgias RICO law, there must be at least two underlying felonies such as fraud, bribery, witness tampering (among other felonies).
RICO allows prosecutors to include multiple defendants charged with various crimes in the blanket indictment, and to charge that govt employees, publicy-funded and publicly-sanctioned entities were allegedly part of an ongoing criminal enterprise.
EXAMPLE A govt official commits two felonies by (1) accepting, and, (2) filing falsified documents.
UPDATE Georgia tried convicted and jailed 27 corrupt teachers under this law.....for falsely taking public money, falsifying official school records, and so on.
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ITEM---Any public official using tax dollars to flout that law is a lawbreaker.
ITEM-- in cases where govt officials on the public payroll not giving public notice is a violation at the federal level of the 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, which requires notice in the Federal Register. Laws demand that taxpayers have the opportunity to submit views in writing.
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ITEM-- If proof is established that RICOed criminal public officials impaired the commercial and economic activity of the region, that could also be prosecutable under the Hobbs Act.
Moron alert.
The awan case is big and it is not over I dug all this up in April
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3647586/posts?page=754#754
Posted this about the Awans, Hezbollah, Obama, Drug dealing, money laundering and used cars a few days ago but with newest Q post it is relevant.
Politico Article About Project Cassandra
https://www.politico.com/interactives/2017/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation/
The campaign, dubbed Project Cassandra, was launched in 2008 after the Drug Enforcement Administration amassed evidence that Hezbollah had transformed itself from a Middle East-focused military and political organization into an international crime syndicate that some investigators believed was collecting $1 billion a year from drug and weapons trafficking, money laundering and other criminal activities.
Over the next eight years, agents working out of a top-secret DEA facility in Chantilly, Virginia, used wiretaps, undercover operations and informants to map Hezbollah’s illicit networks, with the help of 30 U.S. and foreign security agencies.
They followed cocaine shipments, some from Latin America to West Africa and on to Europe and the Middle East, and others through Venezuela and Mexico to the United States. They tracked the river of dirty cash as it was laundered by, among other tactics, buying American used cars and shipping them to Africa. And with the help of some key cooperating witnesses, the agents traced the conspiracy, they believed, to the innermost circle of Hezbollah and its state sponsors in Iran. But as Project Cassandra reached higher into the hierarchy of the conspiracy, Obama administration officials threw an increasingly insurmountable series of roadblocks in its way, according to interviews with dozens of participants who in many cases spoke for the first time about events shrouded in secrecy, and a review of government documents and court records. When Project Cassandra leaders sought approval for some significant investigations, prosecutions, arrests and financial sanctions, officials at the Justice and Treasury departments delayed, hindered or rejected their requests.
The Justice Department declined requests by Project Cassandra and other authorities to file criminal charges against major players such as Hezbollah’s high-profile envoy to Iran, a Lebanese bank that allegedly laundered billions in alleged drug profits, and a central player in a U.S.-based cell of the Iranian paramilitary Quds force. And the State Department rejected requests to lure high-value targets to countries where they could be arrested.
WHICH REMINDED ME OF THE AWANS:
The used car dealership known as CIA never seemed like an ordinary car dealership, with inventory, staff and expenses.
On its Facebook page, CIA’s “staff” were fake personalities such as “James Falls O’Brien,” whose photo was taken from a hairstyle model catalog, and “Jade Julia,” whose image came from a web page called “Beautiful Girls Wallpaper.”
If a customer showed up looking to buy a car from Cars International A, often referred to as CIA, Abid Awan — who was managing partner of the dealership while also earning $160,000 handling IT for House Democrats — would frequently simply go across the street to another dealership called AAA Motors and get one.
“If AAA borrows a car to Cars International and they have a customer, it was simply take the car across the street and sell it, and then later on give the profit back or not,” Nasir Khattak, who ran the longstanding AAA dealership, testified in a lawsuit. “There was no documentation… If you go and try to dissect, you will not be able to make any sense out of them because there were many, dozens and dozens, of cars transferred between the two dealerships and between other people.”“Based on the modest way Awan was living, it is my opinion that he was sending most of his money to a group or criminal organization that could very well be connected with the Pakistani government,” said Wayne Black, a private investigator who served as law enforcement group supervisor in Janet Reno’s Miami public corruption unit. “My instincts tell me Awan was probably operating a foreign intelligence gathering operation on US soil.”
Officials told Politico that prosecutors refused to help them punish top Hezbollah operatives involved in its money laundering network because of political concerns, such as fears of jeopardizing the Obama administration’s deal with Iran. Similarly, the Awans, who had close relationships to House Democrats including Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Gregory Meeks, have not been charged with any crimes surrounding the dealership nor with their House activities.
AND THIS
A secret server is behind law enforcement’s decision to ban a former IT aide to Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz from the House network.
Now-indicted former congressional IT aide Imran Awan allegedly routed data from numerous House Democrats to a secret server. Police grew suspicious and requested a copy of the server early this year, but they were provided with an elaborate falsified image designed to hide the massive violations. The falsified image is what ultimately triggered their ban from the House network Feb. 2, according to a senior House official with direct knowledge of the investigation.
The secret server was connected to the House Democratic Caucus, an organization chaired by then-Rep. Xavier Becerra. Police informed Becerra that the server was the subject of an investigation and requested a copy of it. Authorities considered the false image they received to be interference in a criminal investigation, the senior official said.
Data was also backed up to Dropbox in huge quantities, the official said. Congressional offices are prohibited from using Dropbox, so an unofficial account was used, meaning Awan could have still had access to the data even though he was banned from the congressional network.
Awan had access to all emails and office computer files of 45 members of Congress who are listed below. Fear among members that Awan could release embarrassing information if they cooperated with prosecutors could explain why the Democrats have refused to acknowledge the cybersecurity breach publicly or criticize the suspects.
House Democrats employed Awan and four family members for years as IT aides. After learning of the House probe, Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, frantically transferred money to accounts in their native Pakistan.
Awan and Alvi were indicted in August on fraud charges related to the transfers, but they have not yet been charged with criminal cybersecurity violations partly because some of the 45 Democrats have been passive about helping build the case, the House official said.
AND OBAMA’S CASH FOR CLUNKERS
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car_Allowance_Rebate_System
The Car Allowance Rebate System (CARS), colloquially known as “cash for clunkers”, was a $3 billion U.S. federal scrappage program intended to provide economic incentives to U.S. residents to purchase a new, more fuel-efficient vehicle when trading in a less fuel-efficient vehicle. The program was promoted as providing stimulus to the economy by boosting auto sales, while putting safer, cleaner, and more fuel-efficient vehicles on the roadways.
The program officially started on July 1, 2009, processing of claims began July 24, and the program ended on August 24, 2009, as the appropriated funds were exhausted. The deadline for dealers to submit applications was August 25. According to estimates of the Department of Transportation, the initial $1 billion appropriated for the system was exhausted by July 30, 2009, well before the anticipated end date of November 1, 2009, due to very high demand. In response, Congress approved an additional $2 billion.
A study by University of Delaware researchers concluded that for each vehicle trade, the program had a net cost of approximately $2,000, with total costs outweighing all benefits by $1.4 billion. A 2017 study in the American Economic Journal found that the program, intended to increase consumer spending, reduced total new vehicle spending by $5 billion.
Authorities found 50,000 scrapped vehicles have been exported to Africa and Eastern Europe.
754 posted on 4/15/2018, 8:28:52 PM by edzo4
Bump!
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