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Tick tock
originally posted by: SudoNim
Is this the next big thing for you guys? I've lost track of all the threads you've created that claim to be the final straw etc etc...
Bottom line, don't get your hopes up again, I do hate to see your little hearts crushed.
originally posted by: SudoNim
Is this the next big thing for you guys? I've lost track of all the threads you've created that claim to be the final straw etc etc...
Bottom line, don't get your hopes up again, I do hate to see your little hearts crushed.
A former congressional technology staffer who became the target of a litany of political conspiracy theories was sentenced to time served Tuesday for lying on a loan application as a federal judge in Washington condemned his ongoing harassment by the “highest” levels of government over unfounded conspiracies.
In releasing Imran Awan, 38, U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan read aloud passages of court filings in which federal prosecutors debunked allegations promulgated on right-leaning news sites and fanned by President Donald Trump on Twitter that suggested Awan was a Pakistani operative who secretly compromised computer files with cover from House Democrats. Chutkan also noted that the Virginia man’s July 3 guilty plea to a felony over a home-equity loan was unrelated to his work on Capitol Hill.
........And now, the rest of the story:
A November 25 New York Times story was headlined, “Congress Pays $850,000 to Muslim Aides Targeted in Inquiry Stoked by Trump,” revealing that the previously unreported settlement is one of the largest to resolve discrimination or harassment claims. The Times called the Awans people who “lost their jobs and endured harassment in part because of their Muslim faith and South Asian origins.”
This has been a pattern in the handling of the Awan saga. Federal judge Tanya S. Chutkan, an Obama appointee, repeatedly delayed Awan’s trial on bank-fraud charges so it was not resolved until after the 2018 election, when the Democrats took control of the House. The party’s inexplicable choice of the Awan family to handle sensitive material on Democratic Party computers might have cost Democrats some votes. Can’t have that.