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originally posted by: IAMTAT
That's gotta be the highest pay grade for a part time staffer in the history of government. He was reported to be getting $160k+ per year.
$165k..his brothers got $160k (22 yr. old) and $161k.
Five members of a Pakistani family under criminal investigation for allegedly misusing their positions as computer administrators for dozens of Democrats in the House of Representatives were paid at least $4 million from July 2009 to the present, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned.
Evidence suggests some of the dozens of House Democrats — many of whom serve on the intelligence, homeland security and foreign affairs committees — who employed the suspects were inexplicably paying people they rarely or never saw.
The suspects had full access to the emails and office computer files of the members for whom they worked. A focus of the investigation by the U.S. Capitol Police is an off-site server on which congressional data was allegedly loaded without the knowledge of authorities.
Even before Capitol Police told chiefs of staff for the employing Democrats Feb. 2 that the Awans — including brothers Imran, Abid and Jamal, and two of their wives, Hina Alvi and Natalia Sova — were suspects in a criminal theft and cybersecurity probe, there were multiple signs that something was amiss.
originally posted by: tribal
does this story have anything to do with the raid on the house in Michigan?
house owned by Abedin contacts
originally posted by: tribal
does this story have anything to do with the raid on the house in Michigan?
house owned by Abedin contacts
Follow the arrest of Awan closely.
Connect the dots to "other" cases. (hint, hint) Just the beginning. Stay tuned.
originally posted by: butcherguy
How many people in the family were actual government employees?
I know if you google search Imran, his name comes up in the list of Congressional staff.
Cristal Perpignan, a former Awan renter, said Imran instructed her to pay the rent to Imran’s friend, Rao Abbas, who lived in the basement of the home she occupied and was also on the House payroll as an IT worker. But Perpignan said Abbas spent his days at home.
Rao R Abbas Information Technology, Rep. Theodore Deutch (D-FL21)
Rao R Abbas, a current staffer, earned an estimated salary of $93,151 USD as an Information Technology through the most recent House pay period. This was close to the median for a House IT administrator.
Abbas has been employed in Congress since Q4 '12, and has also been a staffer for Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO5), Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD3), Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY14), and Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-PA8).
Imran boasted unusual clout among House Democrats, and was even pictured conversing with former President Bill Clinton. After Rao Abbas, who was owed money by the dealership, threatened to sue amid allegations of deception and theft, Abbas appeared on the congressional payroll and received $250,000 in taxpayer payments.
Despite numerous family members making $160,000 congressional salaries, debts went unpaid by the brothers, including to the Congressional Federal Credit Union.
originally posted by: IAMTAT
Rao Abbas...
congressional-staff.insidegov.com...
...is another name connected to Imran Awan:
Cristal Perpignan, a former Awan renter, said Imran instructed her to pay the rent to Imran’s friend, Rao Abbas, who lived in the basement of the home she occupied and was also on the House payroll as an IT worker. But Perpignan said Abbas spent his days at home.
dailycaller.com... tm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=Social