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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Wasserman Schultz’s IT Aide Arrested At Airport After Transferring $300k To Pakistan From House Office
2017-07-26
More on this story from yesterday.
[DAILYCALLER] Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz
...Congresswoman from Florida, the abrasive chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee. She has been a politician since 1992, and prior to that was in training as a political science major. Her primary accomplishment seems to be that she's Jewish...
’s top information technology (IT) aide was placed in durance vile
Keep yer hands where we can see 'em, if yez please!
 Monday attempting to board a flight to Pakistain after wiring $283,000 from the Congressional Federal Credit Union to that country.

He attempted to leave the country hours after The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group revealed that he is the target of an FBI investigation, and the FBI apprehended him at the airport.

Credit union officials permitted the wire to go through,
Why?
and his wife has already fled the country to Pakistain, after police confronted her at the airport and found $12,000 in cash hidden in her suitcase but did not stop her from boarding, court documents show.
Again, why?
"On January 18, 2017 at 12:09 pm, an international wire transfer request form was submitted [at the Congressional Federal Credit Union] at the Longworth House Office Building in the District of Columbia, in the amount of $283,000.00,
Oh. Mr. Obama was still president.
to two individuals in Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
, Pakistain," according to an affidavit obtained by TheDCNF.

Imran Awan, a Pak-born IT aide, had access to all emails and files of dozens of members of Congress, as well as the password to the iPad that Wasserman Schultz used for Democratic National Committee business before she resigned as its head in July 2016.
Posted by:Fred

#21  Cops Plea time. Debbie in an orange jumpsuit
Posted by: BigEdLB   2017-07-26 22:07  

#20  ZH got it wrong about Awan being a "taxpayer funded government employee".
Posted by: Pappy

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe all of these congress critters get an allocation of federal funding to support their office staff to include IT personnel.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-07-26 20:23  

#19  ZH got it wrong about Awan being a "taxpayer funded government employee".
Posted by: Pappy   2017-07-26 20:07  

#18  It appears he wanted to raise cash as quickly as possible.
Posted by: phil_b   2017-07-26 19:42  

#17  More from ZH
Posted by: phil_b   2017-07-26 16:52  

#16  Incompetent BOFH.
Posted by: Shipman    2017-07-26 11:40  

#15  Must be nice to have thousands of like-minded Democrats in the media willing to sit on and suffocate what may turn out to be a massive story.
Posted by: Raj   2017-07-26 11:14  

#14  Lock Little Miss Debbie up too for good measure. Call it criminal conspiracy to defraud. I got a feeling this little bird would sing like a canary.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-07-26 11:09  

#13  Charged right now with bank fraud.
Posted by: Deacon Blues   2017-07-26 10:32  

#12  ...I'm tired an Awan a go home...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2017-07-26 09:47  

#11  My thought. Whoever Trump has as AG, the folks on the lower levels will still 'slow walk' any evidence or charges.

The whole sector has to be cleaned out.
Posted by: Mullah Richard   2017-07-26 08:58  

#10  I'd love to see the paper trail as well.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-07-26 08:45  

#9  Hey Debbie, ya mayo-haired hatchet-faced mumble-moufed scrunt? Remember "there will be consequences"? Let's see what's in that laptop
Posted by: Frank G   2017-07-26 08:35  

#8  Don't forget OGA.
Posted by: Clavins Sproing1412   2017-07-26 07:46  

#7  So is the family ISI, Taliban, Ikhwan, IRGC, common criminals, or some combination of the above? How long before their "raid" is praised in mosques?
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2017-07-26 07:17  

#6  The pursuit of this and other related potential instances of criminal activity does not appear to be very aggressive. This may account for some of Trump's frustrations with the new Attorney General.

Posted by: Besoeker   2017-07-26 05:49  

#5  As I said yesterday, this looks to be just a holding charge, with more stuff coming. Lets hope there is some major plea bargaining over whatever dirt he has.
Posted by: phil_b   2017-07-26 05:44  

#4  I've fixed the link to yesterday's article, which now points to the article instead of yesterday's Burg. My apologies for the error.

Second, Representative Wasserman Schultz fired Mr. Awan yesterday. The Daily Mail link phil_b posted yesterday now has the quote:

On Tuesday, Wasserman Schultz announced that Awan had been fired after his arrest was announced.

'Mr. Awan previously served as a part-time employee but his services have been terminated.

'No charges, evidence or findings from the investigation have been formally shared with our office, so we cannot comment on them,' a spokesman for her said.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-07-26 05:24  

#3  If these people do not have very solid connections to Paki Intelligence Services I would be very, very surprised.
Posted by: Besoeker   2017-07-26 04:46  

#2  In jail and still on Wasserman's payroll. Must have the good stuff on Little Debbie.
Posted by: Hupaith Bucket3695   2017-07-26 01:03  

#1  Yes. And the same Congress critters want MORE of these H1B types.
Posted by: Spolumble Groting8950   2017-07-26 00:46  

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