Posted on 02/21/2022 7:54:46 AM PST by bitt
The House resolved wrongful termination claims by five Pakistani-American technology workers whose case was twisted into a right-wing conspiracy theory pushed by President Trump.
The payments represent one of the largest known awards by the House to resolve discrimination or harassment claims.
The House of Representatives quietly paid $850,000 this year to settle wrongful termination claims by five Pakistani-American technology specialists, after a set of routine workplace allegations against them morphed into fodder for right-wing conspiracy theories amplified by President Trump.
Together, the payments represent one of the largest known awards by the House to resolve discrimination or harassment claims, and are designed to shield Congress from potentially costly legal action.
But aides involved in the settlement, which has not previously been reported, said it was also an attempt to bring a close to a convoluted saga that led to one of the most durable — and misleading — story lines of the Trump era. The aides said its size reflected a bid to do right by a group of former employees who lost their jobs and endured harassment in part because of their Muslim faith and South Asian origins.
What started as a relatively ordinary House inquiry into procurement irregularities by Imran Awan, three members of his family and a friend, who had a bustling practice providing members of Congress with technology support, was twisted into lurid accusations of hacking government information. In 2018, Mr. Trump stood next to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia at a now-infamous news conference in Helsinki, and implied that one of the employees involved in the House case — a “Pakistani gentleman,” he said — could have been responsible for stealing emails of Democratic officials leaked during the 2016 campaign. His own intelligence agencies had concluded that the stolen emails were part of
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how did we not know about this in Nov. 2020?
They paid him off right after the 2020 election
The “Irwan brothers”?
These the Pakistani spies that fled the country after Wasserman-Schultz was screwing one of them and gave him unlimited access to the Congressional computer system?
And now we are paying them? I guess if the government say we did them wrong it must be true.
You know, like what the government says about BLM, Covid, Russians, global warming, the economy, etc. /s
This was Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s employee? They sure buried this story...
We don’t religiously read the NYT? It was published Nov 2021 in the Times.
Funny how the Durham report proves, this was NOT a Trump conspiracy but a hillary, obama, biden, dirty and unconstitutional operation.
Nobody belonging to 7th century death cult which has been masquerading as a religion while for 1400 years has been demanding the entire world must: “Convert or Die”, should be allowed to remain in the USA.
remember Becerra was involved in this cover-up - he shortly went to CA and started trouble out there..
yeah this $850k settlement is new to me.
I knew he got the time served for defrauding the federal credit union.
who said crime doesn’t pay???
this $850k was almost as good as andrew mccabe got after being found guilty.
I suspect Awan will get a “book deal” next??
Becerra has yet to answer for his outrageous conduct as a Congressman and House Democratic Caucus Chair.
As California’s top law enforcer, Cong Becerra knew, or should have known, US House policies are codified by law.
<><> House members are not allowed to accept services from people not on their payroll
<><> House employees are not permitted to log onto servers of members for whom they do not work.
<><> No scenario exists where the Awan clan’s access was even remotely appropriate.
Many House IT set-ups were “thin clients” (computers optimized for establishing remote connections w/ servers based elsewhere).
In 2016, the Pakistani Awan clan (suspected of being spies) worked as numerous House Democrats’ ITs
and used Becerra’s Democratic Caucus computers in anomalous ways:
<><> Authorities say Becerra’s entire Democratic Caucus server physically disappeared while being monitored by L/E.
<><> The Awans were using the House Democratic Caucus as their central service warehouse.
<><> The Awan clan collectively logged onto Becerra’s Caucus system 5,735 times, some 27 times per day
<><> Falsely logging onto Becerra’s laptop as system administrators.
<><> Changing their identities.
<><> Logging onto Cong Becerra’s server using 17 different user account credentials
<><> Some credentials the Paki’s used belonged to House Democrats.
<><> The Pakis did no IT work for 9 of the 17 offices to which these user accounts belonged.
<><> Investigations found “possible storage of sensitive House information” outside the House.
<><> Dropbox was installed on two Democratic Caucus computers used by the suspects.
<><> Two user accounts had thousands of files in their Dropbox folder on each computer.
<><> Using Dropbox is against House rules because it uploads files offsite.
<><> The Wash/Po reported “Based on the file names, some of the information is likely sensitive.”
<><> House computer set-ups were found to be portals to an outside computer.
<><> Awans were using terminal servers from a computer in a different location.
<><> Virtual Private Networks can make a server’s hard drive appear to be local to a computer.
<><> Remote sessions remained active for months at a time.
<><> Data was always out of [the members’] possession
<><> Other Democrat offices were accessed in total less than 60 times.
<><> The pattern of login activity suggests steps were taken to conceal the Pakis’ suspect activity.
<><> The aggregation of multiple members’ data would mean all that data was taken when the Paki’s absconded.
How generous of the taxpayers.
Voter Rights Group Notifies DOJ of Pakistani Link With Nevada Election Email System
The Epoch Times ^ | Ivan Pentchoukov / FR Posted on 12/6/2020 by Savage Rider
A U.S. voter rights group informed the Department of Justice on Dec. 3 of a link between the Nevada election emails system and a Pakistani company with ties to military and intelligence. True the Vote requested the Nevada voter file from the secretary of state after the Nov. 3 election. The state responded with a voter file in an email, but the message was copied to Waqas Butt, CEO of Pakistani-based Kavtech Solutions Ltd. (Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ..
NEED TO KNOW ASAP
<><> Did the Nevada Secretary of State contract with the Pakistani company?
<><> What are the connections there?
<><> Who were the contacts?
<><> Why was this company chosen?
<><> Are Americans jeopardized for a foreign company to have Nevada voter information?
<><> The Paki company seems to have voter info: names, DOB, address, driver’s licenses, possibly S/S numbers, and signatures.
<><> Was this information shared with others?
<><> How much of the info harvested grew into a mail in absentee vote??
<><> Given Becerra’s closeness w/ the Paki House IT’s, what does he know about this and when did he know it?
Give it time and Trump will be proven right again. Like always nobody will know and by then, nobody will care.
These @ssholes made millions and were trying to transfer American technology to Pakistan. Story about Debbie and her IT guy is here https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/weekly-standard/the-strange-case-of-debbie-wasserman-schulzs-it-guy
OMG!!! OMG!!!! ENOUGH!!! ENOUGH!!!
The investigation that led to the Awans started under the Obama-Biden Admin.
We used a keyword of “itgate” to try and tie all the awan related threads togather.
+++!!!!!!!
Didn’t one of the Awan brothers work for Ted Lieu?
Seems like an adequate reason to burn certain government agencies to the ground and charge members with treason..
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