Not in a good way is actually a good way for the rest of us.
Nice to see that smug b*tch feel the heat for once.
When you see CNN and MSNBC running stories you'll know the end is near.

I wonder if they will ever find out what he did with the terabytes of information? Did he sell it to Pakistanis, who sold it to the Chinese?

http://dailycaller.com/2018/05..._campaign=site-share

IMRAN AWAN ALLEGEDLY TRIED ‘TO HIDE HIS MONEY’ WHILE DOJ NEGOTIATES WITH HIM

Embattled former Democratic IT aide Imran Awan has as recently as weeks ago attempted to get someone to create an LLC to hide the ownership of real estate, and two people to buy a $40,000 gold bar for him, sources told The Daily Caller News Foundation. This while his lawyer has told The Daily Caller News Foundation that Imran “doesn’t have a pot to piss in.”

“He is totally unable to work and does not have a pot to piss in,” Imran attorney Chris Gowen wrote in a Feb. 27 email to TheDCNF.

Imran, who along with wife Hina Alvi worked as a server administrator for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, has been the target of an FBI investigation since the House Inspector General alleged in September 2016 that he made “unauthorized access” to House servers and systematically falsified congressional financial records. Prosecutors have charged Imran and Alvi with bank fraud related to a House retirement account and a mortgage after the FBI said Imran impersonated his wife and initiated a $300,000 wire transfer to Pakistan, claiming it was for a funeral.

Investigators say the alleged congressional fraud may extend to millions of dollars. The FBI is in possession of hundreds of “Suspicious Activity Reports” detailing unusual transfers from Imran’s bank accounts, officials said.

On May 3, prosecutors said they were “currently exploring a possible resolution of this matter.”

Disappearing money would be key because Republican House officials close to the probe say that not only did huge quantities of House technology equipment disappear, they suspect Imran ran a $7 million “ghost employee” scheme where no-show employees — one of whom had been most-recently worked at McDonald’s — were added to the House payroll as IT administrators.

A source told TheDCNF the purpose of the new LLC Imran wanted them to create was to hold assets, including real estate, but that the assets would remain under Imran’s control.

The Awans owned numerous homes that operated as rental properties. TheDCNF interviewed most of the tenants, and all said the Awans demanded rent in the form of cash or blank money orders.

Virginia licensing documents show that Imran became a licensed real estate broker during the time period he was earning $160,000 from Congress. The licensing process requires certifying that the applicant was working “an average of at least 40 hours per week” as a real estate agent at the time. Brokers typically supervise real estate agents and handle large amounts of money.

Two sources said that in recent weeks, Imran has discussed providing third parties with money and having them travel to New York City to buy and return with a 1-kilogram gold bar. “He wants to hide his money,” one source said in relation to the gold.

Those alleged requests occurred just weeks before Awan’s next scheduled court date, on June 7 .

Imran wears a court-ordered GPS ankle bracelet and is required to stay close to home– a restriction his lawyer has repeatedly asked prosecutors to lift.

At least 14 limited liability companies have previously been registered to immediate family members or to the addresses of the Awan family’s residences. Those included companies such as New Dawn 2001, registered to Imran’s elderly mother-in-law. It is unclear what the “New Dawn” in 2001 was; the company was created in 2011.

Gowen, Imran’s attorney, said he had “no idea” what the companies did.

The companies also include multiple purported car dealerships, for which no physical presence could be located, that were registered to Imran brother Abid Awan’s Ukranian wife, Nataliia Sova, who was also on the House payroll. Another car dealership that did have a physical presence, registered to Abid, took $100,000 from an Iraqi government official, Abid’s business partner Nasir Khattak testified in a civil suit.

On mandatory House ethics disclosures, the Awans — who were subject to restrictions on outside income — did not report any outside companies.

Seems to me one more confirmation of the iceberg principle. I think there's a lot more ugly still below water line that is coming to the surface.

How does someone "hide" anything in an LLC? You'd need a chain of the buggers just to slow investigators down.

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soooo many interesting tidbits in that article.

I'm not sure there is a big enough drain to drain the swamp...

Just blow the dam!

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How does someone "hide" anything in an LLC?

I can't answer your question, but the companies were in multiple names and addresses

^^^ That's kind of my point. Every Secretary of State in the US requires a contact person and a contact address. If something's funky, do you honestly believe that Natalia Sova wouldn't drop a dime on Abid Awan to avoid deportation or prison? You can make an investigator jump through one or two more hoops than absolutely necessary, but you can't form an LLC, retain effective control over property owned by the LLC, and still remain invisible to anyone who knows the name of the LLC - which will, at a minimum, be on the deed in the property records office of the country where the property is located.

Democrats' IT scandal set to explode with possible plea deal:

The curious case of Imran Awan, which sounds like an international spy thriller, is entering its third act. Awan was a congressional IT aide to Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., and he was finally fired just after he was arrested trying to fly to Pakistan last summer.

Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, were charged last summer with bank fraud. They now appear poised to strike a plea deal with the Department of Justice. A plea agreement hearing is set for July 3 before U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan in Washington, Fox News reported Wednesday.

As I’ve dug deep into this case for my book “Spies in Congress” (out later this year), sources have made it clear that the bank fraud charges in this case, though very real, are just a way to hold the defendants.

Alleged theft of congressional equipment, massive data breaches of Congress members’ emails, likely espionage and more are all wrapped up in this case that involves data from 40 or more Democratic members of Congress.

Sources tell me that the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force has been looking into this matter since well before Awan and his crew of Pakistani congressional IT aides were booted off the House computer network in February 2017.

Sources also say that investigators were particularly interested in whether anyone else in the congressional offices that all of these IT aides worked for was involved in alleged improper activity. This might include Rep. Wasserman Schultz, who was the Democratic National Committee (DNC) chair when she employed Awan. It might also include former Rep. Xavier Becerra, D-Calif., who employed Awan when Becerra was chairman of the House Democratic Caucus. Becerra is now California attorney general.

“The House Office of Inspector General tracked the Awans network usage and found that a massive amount of data was flowing from the (congressional) networks,” said Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa. “Over 5,700 logins by the five Awan associates were discovered on a single server within the House, the server of the Democratic Caucus Chairman, then Rep. Xavier Becerra of California. Up to 40 or more members of Congress had all of their data moved out their office servers and onto the Becerra server without their knowledge or consent.”

Becerra left Congress in January 2017. Before he left, Capitol Police wanted a copy of the caucus server’s contents.

Becerra presumably told Imran Awan that Capitol Police wanted a copy of the server. What is known is that Awan did produce a copy of a server’s data for Capitol Police; however, after taking a look at the data they were provided, Capitol Police determined they were given a copy of data from some other server instead.

“Capitol Police found that the image (the copy of the server contents) they were supplied was false,” said Rep. Perry, quoting a report from the House Office of Inspector General.

So the Awans had access to – in fact, were copying – all the emails, personal schedules and other data from the Democrats they worked for to this server and, according to other reports, a Dropbox account.

Imran Awan was also going back to Pakistan for long stays and, in fact, at times worked remotely from Pakistan. This is where the case leads to possible espionage.

Meanwhile, court hearings on the alleged bank fraud Imran Awan and Hina Alvi have been charged with have been delayed again and again. The last hearing took place in October 2017.

The delays came as Department of Justice prosecutors and defense attorneys have been fighting it out over a laptop found in a cubbyhole (what was once a phone booth) in congressional office building that has the username “REPDWS” (a computer used by Imran Awan that is the property of Rep. Wasserman Schultz’s office).

What’s on this computer we can only surmise, but it is clear that Wasserman Schultz wants the evidence kept out of court. She even publicly threatened the chief of the Capitol Police with “consequences” if the laptop wasn’t returned.

Meanwhile, a House Office of Inspector General investigation determined that Awan and his crew (none of whom underwent background checks to gain the IT positions they held in Congress) committed numerous violations of House security policies.

There is a lot more to come from this explosive case. Before this plea agreement hearing was set the biggest worry was that the government’s odd failure to prosecute Awan for alleged thefts of government equipment (some of which were found in a garage of one of Awan’s rental properties) and the many alleged national security violations pointed to a political cover-up.

Now it appears the plot is set for a riveting climax.


http://www.foxnews.com/opinion...sible-plea-deal.html

Kind of embarrassed to admit that I don’t know where the name “Danky” comes from.

Here, of course.

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Kind of embarrassed to admit that I don’t know where the name “Danky” comes from.

I think I read it first in a post by Parabellum. "Danky Wubberman .........

DANKY WUBBERMAN STOLTZ!!

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natch

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^^^ That's kind of my point. Every Secretary of State in the US requires a contact person and a contact address. If something's funky, do you honestly believe that Natalia Sova wouldn't drop a dime on Abid Awan to avoid deportation or prison? You can make an investigator jump through one or two more hoops than absolutely necessary, but you can't form an LLC, retain effective control over property owned by the LLC, and still remain invisible to anyone who knows the name of the LLC - which will, at a minimum, be on the deed in the property records office of the country where the property is located.

Each entity has an agent for service of process, who to serve for court actions, which can be just about anyone. Companies exist to provide this service for a fee. Lawyers often are named in this capacity.

The Secretary of State has these on file. Most, I assume are by now online.

Many private investigators are familiar with these sources of info, although you don’t find out much this way. Government investigators in my experience seem to be unanimously ignorant about real estate transactions, info sources, etc.

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Government investigators in my experience seem to be unanimously ignorant about real estate transactions, info sources, etc.

Are these examples of truly inept agents or merely convenient coincidences?

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DANKY WUBBERMAN STOLTZ!!

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natch

Thanks.

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Government investigators in my experience seem to be unanimously ignorant about real estate transactions, info sources, etc.

Are these examples of truly inept agents or merely convenient coincidences?

Hard to say. I doubt anyone gains by intentionally playing stupid. If they knew how to do what they were trying to, I assume they would, get the info and go on with business.

The Feds always try to keep everything secret, so you don’t know what they are trying to do, and they don’t know what they are doing. You just see them rooting around helplessly.

I offered to show some DA investigators in the fraud unit how to make better use of the public records, what they could find, what it could reveal, but they weren’t interested. In Scam Diego, you would think it would be de rigueur, but nope.

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She looks kind of like Don Knotts when she's mad.

How is this germane to the conversation?

How do you get to 20,000 posts in this forum and not know that we do not make comments about the appearance of others?

If she were beautiful, what would it matter? If she did and said the same things, believed the same things and acted the same way, what difference does it make how she looks?

"The damn Germans got nothing to do with it".

Possible huge bonus if Becerra gets burned down over this; I find Wubberman Stoltz more annoying than dangerous (if this goes to Grand Jury, I could be proven wrong). Becerra though is a true believer, a Wahabi-type radical.

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Democrats' IT scandal set to explode with possible plea deal:

The President does not want the DOJ to offer a plea deal to Danky