Democrats Congressional IT staff Investigation

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Back Ground Info from Fake News Thread posts back in Feb


Abid Awan, Imran Awan and Jamal Awan, are three brothers who worked within the IT department for members of the House Permanent Intelligence Committee.

the House Intelligence Committee is part of the deepest oversight network with responsibility over the most sensitive and secretive government intelligence, including covert anti-terrorism activity.
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"Brothers Imran, Abid, and Jamal Awan and Hina Alvi, Imran’s wife, each made $160,000 a year as information technology workers for the House. Their salaries and time were shared among dozens of Democratic members, including former Democratic National Committee Chairman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida. The lawmakers also include members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Committee on Foreign Affairs."

"some Democrats who shared the payroll for the four have not terminated their employment, including Wasserman, who employs Imran and who resigned last year when it was learned the DNC’s computer system had been hacked. Derrick Robinson, spokesman for California Rep. Karen Bass, refused to comment on Alvi’s employment status."


A Muslim Brotherhood Security Breach in Congress

Last year, eight members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence issued a demand that their staffers be granted access to top secret classified information.

The signatories to the letter were Andre Carson, Luis Guiterez, Jim Himes, Terri Sewell, Jackie Speier, Mike Quigley, Eric Swalwell and Patrick Murphy. All the signatories were Democrats.
 
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Caught On Tape: Wasserman Schultz Threatens Police Chief For Investigating Her IT Staff's Crimes

A manager at a tech-services company that works with Democratic House offices said he approached congressional offices, offering their services at one-fourth the price of Awan and his Pakistani brothers, but the members declined.

Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz threatened the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police with “consequences” for holding equipment that she says belongs to her in order to build a criminal case against a Pakistani staffer suspected of massive cybersecurity breaches involving funneling sensitive congressional data offsite.

The investigation is examining members’ data leaving the network and how Awan managed to get Members to place three relatives and a friend into largely no-show positions on their payrolls, billing $4 million since 2010.


Though on the surface Wasserman Schultz would have been a victim of Awan’s scam, she has inexplicably protected him, circumventing the network ban by re-titling him as an “adviser” instead of technology administrator.

Politico described him and his wife, Hina Alvi, as having a “friendly personal relationship” with both Wasserman Schultz and Rep. Gregory Meeks of New York.

That baffled a Democratic IT staffer, who said

“I can’t imagine why she’d be that good of friends with a technology provider.”
“Usually if someone does bad stuff, an office is going to distance themselves” rather than incur political fallout for a mere staffer."
 
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I still look at this one with complete and utter disbelief.

Why would you go through the hassle of going outside established connections, instead of just using provided resources or a contracted service solution? Why weren't they using a vetted supplier? Where did these clowns come from? How and why did the Dems push through their clearances? It's not like there is a shortage of people with more appropriate skills and background who'd take a cushy and downright simple IT job for over $130k a year. Unless you're talking about the $130k being a 1099 pay. That would almost make some sense, as that is more like a $70k wage. Peanuts for DC. Maybe the Dems were just trying to be as cheap as possible? But then why would they even consider standing up for these guys? They'd toss 'em under the bus and be done with it. Unless of course, they have even more dirt that hasn't been leaked, yet.......?

The only other answer I can come up with that makes sense is that they were somehow forced to use these people. Then, who forced them.....?

Any way you look at it, though... Something still doesn't add up.
 
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House Dems Hired A Fired McDonald’s Worker As Their IT Guy

Rao Abbas administered the email accounts and computers of eight members of Congress, according to official payroll records. Abbas lived in the basement of a house that Hina Awan owned as a rental property.

Spokesmen for Cleaver and Deutch refused to say whether Abbas was ever seen in their offices, how Abbas came to appear on their payrolls or who on their staffs had IT administrator-level access to computer files. Cleaver put five out of the six members of the Awan circle — all but Jamal — on his payroll at various times. It’s an unusual number of tech workers, and an arrangement that should have made the existence of nepotism obvious to the member or his chief of staff.

With allegedly no-show employees connected to Imran being added to numerous offices, someone had to do the work. Imran enlisted an old high school friend, Haseeb Rana, for this purpose.
 
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$120K Equipment Write Off At The Center Of House IT Scandal

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 brothers are also suspected of orchestrating a different long-running fraud scheme that involved working with an employee of CDW Government Inc., one of the Hill’s largest technology providers, to alter invoices so that members’ offices could purchase items in a way that avoided triggering tracking by central House-wide administrators

Those fraud schemes are two major parts of the criminal case being built against Imran Awan, his wife Hina Alvi, his two brothers Abid and Jamal, and potentially others into their Capitol Hill IT work. Their work as IT aides gave them full access to all emails and files of dozens of members of Congress, and the law enforcement probe also includes a cybersecurity component.
 
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Steve Wasserman is the US Attorney for Washington DC


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