Investigators suspect that IT staff members who had worked for DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other prominent Democrats could have compromised sensitive government data, perhaps even selling it to hostile foreign governments that could use it to blackmail members of Congress or even put their lives at risk.
For more than a decade, Paul Sperry reports, Imran Awan, his wife and two relatives and a friend worked for 30 House Democrats. They included New York City pols Gregory Meeks, Joseph Crowley and Yvette Clarke and members of the sensitive Intelligence and Foreign Relations committees. Sperry writes:
Read Full Article »Most had relatively little IT experience. Yet they hauled in a combined $4 million-plus over the past decade. One, a former McDonald's worker, was suddenly making as much as a chief of staff.
“These lawmakers allowed an insider threat to come into the House,” the official charged. “Computer equipment was stolen, taxpayers were robbed of hundreds of thousands of dollars, and sensitive data was compromised and possibly sold overseas.”
On Thursday, a federal grand jury indicted Imran Awan on four seemingly unrelated felony counts including bank fraud, conspiracy and making false statements. They also indicted his wife, Hina Alvi. FBI agents seized hard drives and other evidence from their Virginia home.
