“Imran Awan did admit to me that my phone is tapped and there are devices installed in my house” and “Imran Awan threatened that he is very powerful and if I ever call the police again, [he] will … kidnap my family members back in Pakistan,” his stepmother, Samina Gilani, claimed.
This man “could read all emails sent and received” by Wasserman Schultz “and see all files on the staff members’ computers.”
This is an immense scandal with multiple implications, and cries out for a full and thorough investigation. But there will almost certainly not be one: too many powerful people involved, with too much at stake. And that in itself demonstrates again why a full investigation is needed.
“Wasserman Schultz Seemingly Planned To Pay Suspect Even While He Lived In Pakistan,” by Luke Rosiak, Daily Caller, July 29, 2017:
Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz seemingly planned to pay cyber-probe suspect and IT aide Imran Awan even while he was living in Pakistan, if the FBI hadn’t stopped him from leaving the U.S. Monday. Public statements and congressional payroll records suggest she also appears to have known that his wife, a fellow IT staffer, left the country for good months ago — while she was also a criminal suspect.
In all, six months of actions reveal a decision to continue paying a man who seemingly could not have been providing services to her, and who a mountain of evidence suggests was a liability. The man long had access to all of Wasserman Schultz’s computer files, work emails and personal emails, and he was recently accused by a relative in court documents of wiretapping and extortion.
Records also raise questions about whether the Florida Democrat permitted Awan to continue to access computers after House-wide authorities banned him from the network Feb. 2. Not only did she keep him on staff after the ban, but she also did not have any other IT person to perform necessary work that presumably would have arisen during a months-long period, according to payroll records.
Wasserman Schultz employed Pakistani-born Awan and his wife Hina Alvi, and refused to fire either of them even after U.S. Capitol Police said in February 2017 that they were targets of the criminal investigation. She said police wouldn’t show her evidence against the couple and, without it, she assumed they might be victims of anti-Muslim profiling.
Awan booked a round-trip ticket to Pakistan in July and planned to depart Monday, July 24 with a return ticket in six months. He was arrested at Dulles Airport during his attempt to leave….
The office’s insistence that his termination was prompted by the Monday arrest — and not the House Sergeant at Arms banning him and his wife from touching congressional computers or his six months in Pakistan — suggests that had he boarded the flight without incident he would still be on payroll.
“Does that mean if he had boarded the flight as planned the office would have been paying him for six months while he was abroad?” TheDCNF investigative group asked Wasserman Schultz’s spokesman Thursday. “Why would it do that?” The spokesman did not respond.
Awan’s wife, Hina, left the country under similar circumstances March 5, after withdrawing the couple’s three kids from school without telling Virginia education officials, packing up all of her possessions, and hiding $12,000 in cash, according to an FBI affidavit. She allegedly had hundreds of thousands of dollars waiting in Pakistan for her — money the FBI says Awan had obtained partly through mortgage fraud and had wired overseas using a false explanation.
Two days later, on March 7, House records show Hina was cut from Wasserman Schultz’s payroll.
Though Hina bought a round trip ticket with a return in six months, the FBI said it “does not believe that Alvi has any intention to return to the United States.”…
Hina and Awan were both IT aides whose jobs required access to the network, but the House Sergeant-At-Arms banned them from accessing it beginning Feb. 2. Awan and Hina were her only IT staffers, and payroll records through the latest available period, March 31, indicate that no other IT staffer or vendor was added to the payroll after their ban.
A House source said Awan was seen in the House office building multiple times after the network ban. “Imran Awan is working in an “advisory” role for Wasserman Schultz, her spokesman said, “providing advice on technology issues.”
The spokesman wouldn’t say who did the office’s computer work after the ban, if not Awan.
As IT administrators, the suspects could read all emails sent and received by the lawmaker and see all files on the staff members’ computers, numerous House IT aides said. WikiLeaks shows that Awan also had the password to Wasserman Schultz’s iPad.
In public court documents filed in Fairfax, Va., Awan’s stepmother accused him of wiretapping and extortion. “Imran Awan did admit to me that my phone is tapped and there are devices installed in my house” and “Imran Awan threatened that he is very powerful and if I ever call the police again, [he] will … kidnap my family members back in Pakistan,” his stepmother, Samina Gilani, claimed in the documents (p. 21) filed April 14….
Kesselman says
The current case reminds us that Muslims weather Arabs or Pakistanis or Iranians should be banned from all US official entities. The evidence is legion about Muslim fraud, threats, murder, and fifth column activity.
Barbara Paolucci says
Why is anyone who is not a citizen of the USA allowed to work in any capacity for our government?
Why did Washerwoman Sh_ts hire these two people? Since she threatened the Capital Police with ‘consequences’ for taking her computer – what is she hiding?
One would think that she would have been forced to resign after arranging for Bernie to fail – I guess that
just isn’t crooked enough for Congress!
Oliver says
Wasserman Schultz- several years ago- compared herself to a woman who stayed home and raised her children. Wasserman Schultz talked about how she and her (wife? husband? I- don’t know- two lesbians, and they have a child) worked and raised the child. And she boasted about her pre- Washington DC career- A LOBBYIST for, I beleive, a recording firm or industry trade group-involved with rock & roll.
I have nothing against rock music, i enjoy it, but I would think raising a child is a higher calling.
But, she is: a woman; a lesbian; a working (?) mother; and a foe of segregation ( although I am sure that she lives in an all white gated community). She has ” the points” in her favor.
Now, if she were a white Republican- the press would be all over her.
Budvarakbar says
That was all cover – re Berniw — he was a shill from the start — to look and be more socialist/COMMUNIST than the putrid hildabeast!
Terry says
Bernie –who yelled against the “1%” is actually in the 1/2 of 1% of Vermont earners.
And, outside of being on the public trough, he has never really held a job.
Typical socialist/communist- what is your’se is mine, and what is mine is mine.
p says
why was the muslim elected president when he came to the US as a foreign exchange student?
RichardL says
Wasserman is in the same category as Pelosi: it makes absolutely no sense in asking why they do things. They are simply clinically insane.
mortimer says
Red-Green Axis of Evil.
Manuel 2 Paleologus says
All the Democrats are insane and unpatriotic and hopefully all of their senators to be voted out soon.
They are plague to this nation and they use anything to stop Trump. But this time, they met their Godfather. He knows them!
Wasserman is a shame to America and this scandal should be look upon.
TL says
This scandal is another reminder that the Democrats lack effective opposition.
mortimer says
The end justifies the means for the RED-GREEN AXIS OF EVIL.
However, Leftards and Muslims only agree up until Point A which is the destruction of Western Civilization.
Leftards and Muslims do not agree up until Point B which is the implantation of either i) COMMUNIST UTOPIA or ii) SHARIA UTOPIA.
The Leftards and Muslims are ACTUALLY on a collision course, and only the more VICIOUS of the TWO IDEOLOGIES will win.
Stalin beat the Muslim allies of the Soviets by exiling them to Siberia and putting millions of Muslims into the Gulag.
Westman says
How right you are, mortimer. The left doesn’t realize they are in the same embrace as Stalin and Trotsky. After being a willing “brother” and exceeding their usefulness, the Jihadists will come for them.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
It is surprising how similar they are. If you take the sheep’s clothing off of both you would probably find the same wolf underneath.
mortimer says
Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a traitor who should spend the rest of her life in jail.
Jen says
As should most of Obama’s government. Will there ever be a full investigation? There should be because for one thing, it would shut down most of the interference the Dems are inflicting on Trump right now. They would be very much distracted.
Daniel Triplett says
Blackmail.
Tom Billesley says
Yep. He’s got something on her.
mortimer says
PRESIDENT TRUMP, please investigate the RED-GREEN AXIS connections and BRING THEM DOWN before they destroy the earth. They were creating World War III.
These are criminals who subvert democracy. They must be exposed and locked up.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her connection to the Awan/Muslim Brotherhood conspiracy is only the tip of the iceberg. BELIEVE ME!
somehistory says
What secrets did he discover in her private emails that he could use against her? It isn’t called blackmail any longer, but extortion…and he has that charge against him via his stepmother.
So what does he know about her that could be damaging to her?
She is unworthy to have the position she has. I can’t comprehend why people of my home State would elect such a person as she. Too bad she didn’t board the plane with hina and not come back.
Daniel Triplett says
At a minimum, as DNC Chair she was responsible for suppressing Bernie Sanders, guaranteeing Hillary would be the nominee. There’s likely nefarious material, as such, on her computer.
Terry says
Can someone check this?
I had heard that ALL of the emails that Wikileaks put out form the DNC WERE DATED BEFORE THE DNC STAFFER WAS MURDERED.
And, that since his murder, there have been NO DNC emails leaked.
To me, that should end the Russia bull. (If the dates are accurate, and Assanuge said that the emails were NOT GIVEN BY A RUSSIAN.)
Oliver says
Look at who was Wasserman Schultz’s predecessor as head of the DNC– and follow the dots.
Hint, his son (in my view) looked like he needs a visit to a barber shop and a few bars of soap when arrested in Minn. in an anti-Trump rally.
Hint-he is a politician
Ric says
The MSM’s preferences are fake news or fabricated news they can conjure-up to disseminate to what they believe are the dullard masses. After all, the MSM is collaborators in the Democrats’ and the Leftist progressive seditious intent, the downfall of this Constitutional Republic. Wasserman Schultz and her co-conspirator Imran Awan are treasonous, corrupt to the core. Enablement by those of the same subversive bent within the Democrats, the government, and its agencies aid and abet this pack of insurrectionists.
The leftist contagion is endemic solely because it has been allowed to breed, like any pathogen, in a petri-dish. Those culpable of this are numerous but the Democrats, the leftist progressive and certainly the MSM, a Fifth Column emboldened by the former. This criminality and treachery must be disclosed to all Americans. If not the Republic will be transformed into a collectivist state, a totalitarian state.
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
Yes, I haven’t heard a whisper of this story in the MSM news stories.
Oliver says
It seems fake news is not limited to the US.
I read over the weekend that a Turkish “journalist” fabricated the entire lines that Mr. Kushner said nice things about the dictator of Turkey.
Seems Mr. Kushner never said any of the things that he was quoted as saying.
I guess the “journalist” is trying to get a job with CNN or MSNBC or NYT or Wash. Post. Probably more money
Phil says
And our media is 100% focused on “Russian collusion”. This would be surreal if it were mot so real.
jewdog says
Classic. A great example of how some naïve Jews can be conned and manipulated by appeals to their sense of empathy for the allegedly persecuted. And Jews are hardly alone in this weakness. The next time the phone rings and it’s a Muslim asking you for money to help defray legal expenses due to a right-wing racist’s lawsuit, just hang up.
Oliver says
Wasserman Schultz is many things (evil; corrupt; etc) BUT NAIVE IS NOT ONE OF THEM.
Years ago, for a brief period of time, I lived in her Congressional district. Long time residents told me that she was smart and ruthless. I believed it then, believe it now.
But, not naive.
Georg says
The 6-year-old me that could tell who was nuts simply by looking at them says, “This lady is nuts.”
Flavius Claudius Iulianus says
The swamp is very, very deep; it is very, very mired.