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In this edition of "JW Inside Report," host Jerry Dunleavy joins Luke Rosiak, an investigative reporter for The Daily Caller's to discuss the cybersecurity scandal involving multiple members of Congress, including Debbie Wasserman Shultz. A Democratic IT staffer named Imran Awan was arrested last July on charges of bank fraud. He was employed by Shultz and other congressional members. He is also a suspect in a cybersecurity investigation, having been banned from congressional networks in February. In addition, his relatives, also government IT employees, are currently being investigated for alleged involvement in defrauding the federal government as well as compromising...

The DNC IT Scandal And The Jackpot Lottery Fraud: When Digital Gatekeepers Become ThievesCongress IT staffers, Imran Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, were indicted for fraud on August 17, 2017, in the DNC scandal. Federal authorities suspect that sensitive U.S. Government data, possibly classified information, may have been compromised or even sold to hostile foreign governments. Awan’s lawyer, Chris Gowen, stated that his client had no “classified clearance for anything.” Therein lies the problem. How can a computer IT staffer without appropriate clearances have access to sensitive and classified data? Separately, in the massive lottery fraud case, Eddie...

A former congressional information technology (IT) aide allegedly threatened to have his stepmother’s Pakistani relatives kidnapped if she talked to U.S. law enforcement authorities, according to court documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s (TheDCNF) Investigative Group. “Imran Awan threatened that he is very powerful and if I ever call the police again, [he] will … kidnap my family members back in Pakistan,” Awan’s stepmother, Samina Gilani, claimed in the documents filed April 14 in Fairfax County, Va., in the case of Americo Financial Life and Annuity Insurance Company v. Abid A. Awan and Samina Ashraf Gilani. Imran Awan...