XPost: alt.business, ca.wanted, rec.aviation.military   
   XPost: alt.military.retired.politics   
   From: communist-scum@womenvoteproject.org   
      
   Perhaps you’ve lost track of the Democrats slowly exploding IT   
   scandal, as much of the media is doing all it can to simply   
   ignore it away.   
      
   I’m referring to the strange case of Imran Awan, the IT aide   
   Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., kept on her congressional   
   payroll even after it became known he and his wife, Hina Alvi   
   Awan, were being investigated by the Capitol Police for possible   
   theft, fraud, moving terabytes of data off Congress’s system and   
   more.   
      
   Imran Awan was back in court last week. When pushed, Assistant   
   U.S. Attorney Michael Mirando revealed some telling things about   
   this case.   
      
   First, I should note that it was standing room only in the   
   packed courtroom at the U.S. District Court for the District of   
   Columbia Friday morning ... okay, just kidding, actually, only a   
   few reporters sat in the mostly empty wooden benches in the back   
   of the courtroom. Anyone who didn’t know this was the latest   
   scene in a slowly exploding political scandal would have thought   
   this was only a forgettable bank fraud case.   
      
   The deeper you dig the more it becomes clear this case is about   
   much more than bank fraud.   
      
   Awan’s attorney, Chris Gowen, even told me: “This case is hardly   
   newsworthy.”   
      
   But before the show started, Imran’s wife, Hina Alvi Awan,   
   entered the courtroom. She had flown away to Pakistan with their   
   children soon after the investigation became known.   
      
   Was she back as part of a plea deal?   
      
   While Hina Alvi was gone, on August 17, 2017, a federal grand   
   jury indicted her and Awan on four counts, including conspiracy   
   and conspiring to obtain home equity loans for $165,000 and   
   $120,000 from the Wright Patman Congressional Federal Credit   
   Union and then transferring the money to Pakistan. (Read the   
   FBI’s criminal affidavit on the bank fraud here and you’ll see   
   why the government thinks it has a strong case.)   
      
   Imran Awan is considered such a flight risk that his passport   
   was taken, he was given a curfew and was fitted with a tracking   
   device.   
      
   Meanwhile, Hina Alvi’s passport was also publicly taken during   
   the court hearing, but she was officially listed as a “walk in,”   
   a tracking device wasn’t attached to her ankle and the   
   government had asked the court to quash an outstanding warrant   
   for her arrest.   
      
   Now came the revelations. Gowen, Imran’s attorney, asked that   
   Imran’s travel restrictions be removed.   
      
   This prompted Assistant U.S. Attorney Mirando to say that when   
   Imran was arrested at Dulles International Airport a cellphone   
   found on him “had been wiped clean just a few hours before.”   
      
   Gowen tried to counter this by saying, “Awan had recently bought   
   the phone, so of course it didn’t have any data on it.”   
      
   But Mirando was ready. He said the FBI found that the phone had   
   been wiped as clean as Hillary’s server. A time stamp on the   
   iPhone indicated it had been wiped at 6:30 p.m. that evening.   
   Also, Imran did have a laptop on him, but one of the few things   
   on it was a resume. Mirando used this and other details—such as   
   the Awans quickly selling many of their Virginia properties—to   
   explain that Imran had no intention of returning.   
      
   In another twist, Gowen brought up a computer that Rep. Debbie   
   Wasserman Schultz wants back so badly she actually threatened   
   the chief of the Capitol Police in a public hearing with   
   “consequences” if she didn’t get it back.   
      
   Gowen argued that the computer and documents seized in a bag   
   left in a public area of a congressional building around   
   midnight on April 6, 2017, are “protected by attorney-client   
   privilege.” Gowen hopes to remove this evidence from future   
   court proceedings.   
      
   Gowen, however, didn’t answer what Imran was doing in the   
   Longworth congressional building late at night and long after   
   he’d been fired by every Democrat aside from Rep. Wasserman   
   Schultz (Wasserman Schultz’s office isn’t in Longworth).   
      
   The deeper you dig the more it becomes clear this case is about   
   much more than bank fraud. Capitol Police are investigating   
   possible theft of congressional computer equipment, massive   
   amounts of data moved off the congressional system, alleged fake   
   computer data created to throw investigators off the trail, and   
   data mined by the Awans that could include emails from many   
   members of Congress and more.   
      
   Rep. Wasserman Schultz, who lost her post at the DNC when   
   WikiLeaks published emails showing that under her leadership the   
   DNC worked to sabotage Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign,   
   might be exposed to even more revelations.   
      
   Meanwhile, Congress has been asked to open an ethics   
   investigation to answer why Rep. Wasserman Schultz kept Imran on   
   her payroll even after the Capitol Police investigation became   
   known.   
      
   So does this sound like a small bank fraud story to you or is it   
   more likely that a lot more is going on here?   
      
   http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/10/10/democrats-it-scandal-   
   just-got-even-more-bizarre.html   
                           
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)