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| Democrat's Office Approved $120k Write-off of IT Gear Linked To Awan Brothers |
| 2017-08-21 |
| [Daily Caller] A chief of staff of Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke quietly agreed in early 2016 to sign away a $120,000 missing electronics problem on behalf of two former IT aides now suspected of stealing equipment from Congress, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned. Clarke’s chief of staff at the time effectively dismissed the loss and prevented it from coming up in future audits by signing a form removing the missing equipment from a House-wide tracking system after one of the Awan brothers alerted the office the equipment was gone. The Pakistani-born brothers are now at the center of an FBI investigation over their IT work with dozens of Congressional offices. A senior House official with knowledge of the situation provided TheDCNF with new details about how exactly the brothers are suspected to have stolen the equipment and possibly data from Congress, raising questions about the members or staffers who were signing the checks on equipment purchases. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
#8 I can't decide if the Awan's were poorly trained intelligence operatives, or small time crooks who got lucky. Why not both? |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2017-08-21 19:43 |
| #7 I can't decide if the Awan's were poorly trained intelligence operatives, or small time crooks who got lucky. |
| Posted by: phil_b 2017-08-21 17:42 |
| #6 Looks like Yvette Clarke (D-Corrupt) and her Chief of Staff ("at the time") need to compensate the taxpayers |
| Posted by: Frank G on the Road 2017-08-21 14:36 |
| #5 They were never going to get the money back so it was simpler to "write it off the books". After all, it is Other Peoples Moneyâ„¢, right, Right? |
| Posted by: magpie 2017-08-21 14:09 |
| #4 Last I looked, you could buy a fairly high end laptop for $1500. Now, if you're in the market for a high end data base server with eight CPUs, 256 GB of RAM, maybe 1024 GB of solid state disk storage and a tape library for backup, you could be in the $120,000 range. But I don't see the likes of Imran Awan being able to administer that kind of technology. So that leaves a helluva lotta room for graft. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2017-08-21 11:56 |
| #3 That's quite a few laptops. Keep in mind that Congressional offices are independent. They set up their own operating procedures. They have their own budgets. They buy their own equipment. Same for consumables. Their staff are not Civil Service (don't receive Federal pay) and are hired and fired by the office. Rather libertarian, doncha think? |
| Posted by: Pappy 2017-08-21 11:45 |
| #2 The tax code needs to be modified so NO WRITE-OFFS are permitted to registered Democrats. |
| Posted by: 3dc 2017-08-21 11:23 |
| #1 That's quite a few laptops. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2017-08-21 11:18 |