Posted on 07/01/2018 5:18:55 PM PDT by Libloather
Rep. Yvette Clarkes deputy chief of staff came into the office on a Saturday in December 2015 and caught the New York Democrats part-time IT aide, Abid Awan, rummaging through the congresswomans work area with new iPods and other equipment strewn around the room, according to a House document and interviews with Hill staff.
Wendy Anderson told Abid to get out of the office, the document said. She told Capitol Hill investigators that she soon suspected Clarkes chief of staff, Shelley Davis, was working with Abid on a theft scheme, multiple House staffers with knowledge of the situation told The Daily Caller News Foundation. They also said that Anderson pushed for Abids firing.
But Clarke did not fire Abid until six months after the congresswoman formally acknowledged that $120,000 in equipment was missing, records show not until after House investigators independently announced a review that would potentially catch financial discrepancies. Even then, Anderson told investigators she believed another top staffer in Clarkes office was subverting their efforts, a House staffer with knowledge of the investigation said.
Four months later, Anderson took a job with another congressional office. Clarkes office declined to say under what terms she left.
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The vast majority of the information has come through the Daily Caller, I think it is. In theory, it could be a hoax - however, there is enough from the WP and others that simply doesn’t jibe with the investigator’s presentation to make that position very dubious.
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