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Thursday, June 07, 2018

Democrats' IT scandal set to explode with possible plea deal

The curious case of Imran Awan, which sounds like an international spy thriller, is entering its third act. Awan was a congressional IT aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and he was finally fired just after he was arrested trying to fly to Pakistan last summer.

Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, were charged last summer with bank fraud. They now appear poised to strike a plea deal with the Department of Justice. A plea agreement hearing is set for July 3 before U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan in Washington, Fox News reported Wednesday.

As I’ve dug deep into this case for my book “Spies in Congress” (out later this year), sources have made it clear that the bank fraud charges in this case, though very real, are just a way to hold the defendants.

Alleged theft of congressional equipment, massive data breaches of Congress members’ emails, likely espionage and more are all wrapped up in this case that involves data from 40 or more Democratic members of Congress.

Sources tell me that the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force has been looking into this matter since well before Awan and his crew of Pakistani congressional IT aides were booted off the House computer network in February 2017.

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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm sure none of those 40 Congressional Demoncrats - and now one of them is CA AG - have nothing to hide from in their emails...........has anyone asked Mr. Sarbanes? "Blackmail or fear of retaliation by the Awans, who could read all the emails and files of 1 in 5 House Democrats, in the form of releasing that data or other information if they dare speak out against them."

Anonymous said...

I still think it is a great idea to have foreign people working for Congress People and dealing with intimate Congressional correspondence and information such as IT data.

Wait a minute . . .

Ummm . . .

Anonymous said...

Democrats...destroying American and our values.

Anonymous said...

This is already a done deal, with no elected officials or Dem party drones taking any heat whatsoever. Lips will remain zipped and the party will be unfazed. Wasserman-Schultz will somehow use it to her advantage, turning it into a witch hunt by Trump, et al.

Anonymous said...

I thought this guy was an FBI planted "spy" to protect Congressional members. No? I guess it could be Russian Collusion instead.

Anonymous said...

Justice for some not for all.