Devout Muslims who called the police on their own relatives — who work as Democratic House IT staffers — are disgusted by Rep. Gregory Meeks being “hesitant to believe” the charges against them, with Meeks saying the allegations may have stemmed from Islamophobia.
The New York Democrat’s IT staffer Hina Alvi and her husband, Imran Awan, have been banned from Congress by Capitol Police, suspecting them of criminal violations of network security in relation to congressional data. Imran’s brothers Abid and Jamal were also on the House payroll as IT workers and have been banned.
But “I have seen no evidence that they were doing anything that was nefarious,” Meeks told Politico March 1.
On March 8, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group published a Fairfax County, Va., police report showing in January, Imran’s stepmother called the police and said the brothers were controlling her.
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and at least one of them is still on the payroll! "A former House central IT staffer said Imran pressured central IT to give him high-level access and obscure the paper trail, and that members’ IT staffers can access any file on that member’s computer."
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