Debbie Wassmernan-Schultz’s Pakistani IT-aide Imran Awan who tried to flee the found and smashed hard drives with hammers was indicted today on four counts including bank fraud and making false statements. Fox News has a write up about Wasserman-Schultz’s IT aide busted today, but no one else does. Also, this wouldn’t get any media coverage between the Spain terrorist attack and the hyperventilating over this past weekend in Charlottesville. The indictment also includes his wife Hina Alvi.
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The grand jury decision in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia comes roughly a month after Awan was arrested at Dulles airport in Virginia trying to board a plane to Pakistan, where his family is from.
Awan and other IT aides for House Democrats have been on investigators’ radar for months over concerns of possible double-billing, alleged equipment theft, and access to sensitive computer systems. Most lawmakers fired Awan in February, but Schultz had kept him on until his arrest in July.
The indictment itself, which merely represents formal charges and is not a finding of guilt, addresses separate allegations that Awan and his wife engaged in a conspiracy to obtain home equity lines of credit from the Congressional Federal Credit Union by giving false information about two properties – and then sending the proceeds to individuals in Pakistan.
The case has put renewed scrutiny on Wasserman Schultz for keeping Awan on the payroll for months, even after a criminal investigation was revealed and he was barred from the House IT network.