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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Update: House Dem IT guys In Security Probe Secretly Took $100K In Iraqi Money
2017-02-21
[Daily Caller] Rogue congressional staffers took $100,000 from an Iraqi politician while they had administrator-level access to the House of Representatives’ computer network, according to court documents examined by The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group.
Please continue tracking, we're gaining on them.
The money was a loan from Dr. Ali al-Attar, an Iraqi political figure, and was funneled through a company with "impossible"-to-decipher financial transactions that the congressional information technology (IT) staffers controlled.

Imran Awan, ringleader of the group that includes his brothers Abid and Jamal, has provided IT services since 2005 for Florida Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the former Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairwoman. The brothers are from Pakistan.

The trio also worked for dozens of other House Democrats, including members of the intelligence, foreign affairs and homeland security committees. Those positions likely gave them access to congressional emails and other sensitive documents.
Posted by:Besoeker

#14  As they say, you can't buy an Arab's loyalty, you only rent it.
Posted by: phil_b   2017-02-21 18:51  

#13  If they don't plead the 5th, they will not live long.
Posted by: Nero White 3083   2017-02-21 18:08  

#12  Rhodesian war,Selous Scouts
Posted by: Skidmark   2017-02-21 16:35  

#11  Investigators found that congressional information was being copied to an off-site server and they suspect the brothers of improperly accessing information and stealing congressional property.

Bankruptcy documents listed Abbas as a creditor and said he might sue Abid, but Abbas later took the brothers’ side in a lawsuit against Khattak. Not long after, Abbas appeared for the first time on the congressional payroll, and collected $250,000 from taxpayers through the end of last year.

Abbas’ congressional email was cut off in early February, around the time the Capitol Police revealed that they had uncovered a scheme involving a network of IT aides. The Awans’ access has also been cut off.

Abid claimed the Iraqi doctor may never have existed. “If as suspected, all of this is a charade, particularly if it is learned the mysterious Dr. Al-Attar doesn’t exist or didn’t sign the documents, then the whole matter rises to a higher level,” he said in court documents.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-02-21 13:26  

#10  Access to the head of the DNC email account during the entire period of the alleged Russian email hacking of the DNC?
Mere coincidence perhaps. But I was taught to always distrust coincidence as an answer to a parallel set of events. What a blockbuster revelation if the entire scandal was actually Muslim immigrant contractors hired by the democrats themselves. Heads would explode.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2017-02-21 12:33  

#9  Hey, they could be in the pay of the Russians too. They go for cheap.
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2017-02-21 11:37  

#8  so maybe these guys were the source of all of those nasty old emails about the democrats. Well, I guess they were in it for the money.

Do you suppose anyone in DOJ or elsewhere will connect the dots on these guys and stop the Russian/Trump connection nonsense?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2017-02-21 10:49  

#7  Yes, Camel Thorn Tree most likely.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-02-21 10:20  

#6  Mr. B - re: the photo - RLI?? 32 Bn?? The Scouts??
Posted by: Bangkok Billy   2017-02-21 10:11  

#5  well, well, well....So it WAS an inside job. With foreign $. Just not Rooshuns
Posted by: Frank G   2017-02-21 08:43  

#4  Meet The Awan Brothers - The (Not-Russian) IT Staff Who Allegedly Hacked Congress' Computer Systems



Posted by: Besoeker   2017-02-21 08:22  

#3  They were the Iraqi version of the Clinton foundation.
Posted by: DarthVader   2017-02-21 08:18  

#2  Or Trumpian.
Posted by: Bobby   2017-02-21 07:48  

#1  The dems see no problems here. It's not like these guys were Russian...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-02-21 07:41  

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