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Malkin: How Did the Dems' IT Scandal Suspects Get Here?
2017-08-10
[Daily Wire] Here is a radical proposition: The public has a right to know the immigration status and history of foreign criminal suspects. Their entrance and employment sponsorship records should not be treated like classified government secrets -- especially if the public's tax dollars subsidized their salaries.

In March, I contacted the D.C. offices of House Congressional Democrats Joaquin Castro of Texas, Sander Levin of Michigan, Marcia Fudge of Ohio, Greg Meeks of New York and Ted Deutch of Florida. These public officials have at one time or another employed one of three Pakistani Muslim brothers or their family and friends caught up in a criminal theft and hacking probe of the House Democrats' information security systems. In all, IT worker Imran Awan and his family and friends hoovered up an estimated $4 million in government funds over a period of 13 years.

For months, the D.C. Capitol Police have probed allegations that the Awan ring stole equipment from more than 20 congressional offices and accessed the House IT system without members' knowledge. Investigative reporter Luke Rosiak at The Daily Caller News Foundation has done excellent work on the case -- most recently breaking the news of Imran Awan's arrest in late July at the airport for alleged bank fraud, mortgage scams and shady wire transfers of nearly $300,000.

Awan was headed to Pakistan to join his wife, Hina Alvi, and three children, who had hastily fled America in March after Alvi was fired by Rep. Meeks. This reeks.

My question to the House Democrats was simple: Were the Awans and their family and friends H-1B tech workers -- like so many of the 650,000 "temporary" foreign guest workers imported into America under that program over the past quarter-century and predominantly working in IT?

Related: Townhall - Sen. Grassley Wants Immigration Files of House IT Leakers
Posted by:Besoeker

#4  It may have been an Ohio representative in Columbus, NoMoreBS, not a Congressional one.
Posted by: trailing wife   2017-08-10 18:21  

#3  Andre Carson of Indiana 7th, Keith Ellison of Michigan 5th are the only Muslim Members of Congress. Was it Ellison Pappy?
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2017-08-10 17:19  

#2  Started working for a Muslim Member of Congress from Ohio, then branched out to the other Congress-critters from there.

One might deduce many things from that.
Posted by: Pappy   2017-08-10 16:00  

#1  IT workers? Read that they did not possess any particular skills in this area. Or more sinister, they might have worked for ISI with Dem blessings.
Posted by: JohnQC   2017-08-10 10:27  

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