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The Democrats' IT scandal just got even more bizarre

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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
                    

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