Wasserman Schultz' ex-IT aide indicted on 4 counts

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Wasserman Schultz' ex-IT aide indicted on 4 counts

Published August 17, 2017
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Imran Awan, a former IT aide for Democratic Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, was indicted Thursday on four counts including bank fraud and making false statements.

The indictment also includes his wife Hina Alvi.

The grand jury decision in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia comes roughly a month after Awan was arrested at Dulles airport in Virginia trying to board a plane to Pakistan, where his family is from.

Awan and other IT aides for House Democrats have been on investigators’ radar for months over concerns of possible double-billing, alleged equipment theft, and access to sensitive computer systems. Most lawmakers fired Awan in February, but Schultz had kept him on until his arrest in July.

The indictment itself, which merely represents formal charges and is not a finding of guilt, addresses separate allegations that Awan and his wife engaged in a conspiracy to obtain home equity lines of credit from the Congressional Federal Credit Union by giving false information about two properties – and then sending the proceeds to individuals in Pakistan.

The case has put renewed scrutiny on Wasserman Schultz for keeping Awan on the payroll for months, even after a criminal investigation was revealed and he was barred from the House IT network.

Awan and other family members for years had a lucrative arrangement for IT-related work on Capitol Hill for House Democrats. According to The Daily Caller, the members of the Pakistani family made at least $4 million since 2009.

In a recent interview published in the Sun Sentinel, Wasserman Schultz blamed the “right-wing media circus fringe” for the attention on Awan.

The former head of the Democratic National Committee suggested it's all part of an effort to distract from the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 campaign and possible ties to President Trump's team.

“Any opportunity they can to pull people’s eyes and ears away from that they take,” Wasserman Schultz told the newspaper.

Her colleagues in Congress, though, say there are serious security implications in her former staffer's case.

“We have to investigate how our systems may have been compromised,” Rep. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., recently told “Fox & Friends.”

Though Awan was barred from the IT network, Wasserman Schultz’ spokesman David Damron told Fox News their office worked with the House Chief Administrative Officer to arrange for the employee to keep providing “valuable services without access to the House network.”

Awan, 37, of Virginia, earlier pleaded not guilty to a single count of bank fraud.

Attorney Christopher Gowen told Fox News that federal authorities have no evidence of misconduct by Awan relating to his IT duties.

Fox News’ Jake Gibson contributed to this report.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/17/wasserman-schultz-ex-it-aide-indicted-on-4-counts.html

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Originally Posted By: Foxpro.223Meh.. nothing will come of it.

Come of what?
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They have a real mess on their hands since, as reported the fraud was 4 million..

Let's make sure this is clear. The Dems can't even manage their IT staff who were not USA nationals and didn't have the proper clearance since you can't get TS clearance for USA secrets in this type of role for non-citizens.

But, aside from that, The DNC had their own staff commit 4 million in fraud right infront of them, but we should let them run the country???

The bigger thing that has come up but somehow not being reported (go figure) is that these are the same morons that were selling secrets from the Congressional accounts from the DNC members of intel communities to other countries. Namely Pakistan, and others.

That is going to take time to get a conviction on, and it seems in the meantime they are going after the easy low hanging fruit from the fraud.

But, be aware there is a lot more here, and it contains selling secrets.


Why the Congress hires IT staff is beyond reason. There should be a single staff provided by the military to run the IT in that place. But, something tells me that Congress doesn't want that since then it might come out how stupid most of them are. Loosing computers with national secrets and so on, would be reported if it was centrally run.
 
Originally Posted By: Three 44sSo you can't let the IT guy work on the House computers, ? That leaves what? Mowing the lawn?

Dumb Dems!

Three44s

The Congress shouldn't be allowed to hire IT support for themselves. These are people (in this case, and i am sure that if you check all Congressional offices (including Senate) you will find people that have admin access to the IT systems that do not have a back ground check and security clearance, let along qualifying certifications for the job)

The evidence in this one is quite clear. There was no background checks since they had someone that wasn't a US citizen with Admin access to systems that no one would give them access to otherwise. There was no security clearance checks, since a guy working for McDonalds had access to Top Secret data from these Congressional morons. Again, no one checked the skills of the people, since they had a family with only one person with the required skills and the perfect example is that one of these guys was working at McDonalds. You don't go from McDonalds to direct access to IT systems with TS clearance without any education.
 
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