Plea Deal For Former Congressional IT Staffer Debunks Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories

[theHawk]

Oh dear...another conspiracy down the drain ...

Plea Deal For Former Congressional IT Staffer Debunks Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories
A former IT specialist for congressional Democrats who has figured prominently in right-wing conspiracy theories pleaded guilty Tuesday to making false statements on a loan application. Nevertheless, federal prosecutors said they found no evidence that he stole government secrets, as many conservatives, including President Trump, have suggested.

Imran Awan — who worked for former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other Democratic lawmakers — was arrested a year ago at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., and charged with bank fraud.

Since then, right-wing websites such as The Daily Caller and commentators on Fox News have pushed a narrative that Awan, a Pakistani immigrant, used his job as a cover for stealing government secrets. In tweets, Trump referred to him as "the Pakistani mystery man" and vaguely suggested that he was tied to the hacking of the DNC's email servers.

However, Awan's guilty plea on Tuesday was unrelated to his work as an IT consultant.

Awan's attorney, Christopher Gowen, said his client acknowledged that in December 2016, he had submitted an online loan application listing a property in his wife's name as her primary residence. It was instead a rental property.

Gowan said Awan's misrepresentation was "wrong" and aimed at speeding the loan approval so that he could send money to his ailing father in Pakistan.

As The Washington Post notes, "the agreement included an unusual passage that described the scope of the investigation and cleared Awan of a litany of conspiracy theories promulgated on Internet blogs, picked up by right-leaning news sites and fanned by Trump on Twitter."

It pays to have the Clinton connection when you are a criminal.

 

[Admiral Rockwell Tory]

Oh dear...another conspiracy down the drain ...

Plea Deal For Former Congressional IT Staffer Debunks Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories
A former IT specialist for congressional Democrats who has figured prominently in right-wing conspiracy theories pleaded guilty Tuesday to making false statements on a loan application. Nevertheless, federal prosecutors said they found no evidence that he stole government secrets, as many conservatives, including President Trump, have suggested.

Imran Awan — who worked for former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other Democratic lawmakers — was arrested a year ago at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., and charged with bank fraud.

Since then, right-wing websites such as The Daily Caller and commentators on Fox News have pushed a narrative that Awan, a Pakistani immigrant, used his job as a cover for stealing government secrets. In tweets, Trump referred to him as "the Pakistani mystery man" and vaguely suggested that he was tied to the hacking of the DNC's email servers.

However, Awan's guilty plea on Tuesday was unrelated to his work as an IT consultant.

Awan's attorney, Christopher Gowen, said his client acknowledged that in December 2016, he had submitted an online loan application listing a property in his wife's name as her primary residence. It was instead a rental property.

Gowan said Awan's misrepresentation was "wrong" and aimed at speeding the loan approval so that he could send money to his ailing father in Pakistan.

As The Washington Post notes, "the agreement included an unusual passage that described the scope of the investigation and cleared Awan of a litany of conspiracy theories promulgated on Internet blogs, picked up by right-leaning news sites and fanned by Trump on Twitter."

Roflmbo
DW shultz’s Brother was one of the prosecuting attorneys
This was a dumbed down conviction

Who let that obvious conflict of interest get by the judge?

 

[tyroneweaver]

So DW Schultz brother won’t prosecute her or Imran Awan

 

[Lewdog]

Residents from states like Kentucky can't even fly from Kentucky to another state using their driver's license anymore... they HAVE to get a passport. Yet this IT guy is going to somehow fly out of the U.S. without one.

Kentucky, among other states was granted extension under the Real ID act until October.

Kentucky

I would hope so. My wife flies out of Louisville tomorrow going to Texas.

See that's a huge problem with this new law. Say a person NEVER travels and doesn't plan to fly so they don't spend money to buy a passport. Well then a relative or friend who lives a 1,000 miles away dies and the funeral is in 3 days. They can't fly with a driver's license... they don't have time to apply and get a passport... so either they drive night and day to get there and then have to drive back, or this miss the funeral. It's fucking dumb.

 

[Crepitus]

Oh dear...another conspiracy down the drain ...

Plea Deal For Former Congressional IT Staffer Debunks Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories
A former IT specialist for congressional Democrats who has figured prominently in right-wing conspiracy theories pleaded guilty Tuesday to making false statements on a loan application. Nevertheless, federal prosecutors said they found no evidence that he stole government secrets, as many conservatives, including President Trump, have suggested.

Imran Awan — who worked for former chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and other Democratic lawmakers — was arrested a year ago at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C., and charged with bank fraud.

Since then, right-wing websites such as The Daily Caller and commentators on Fox News have pushed a narrative that Awan, a Pakistani immigrant, used his job as a cover for stealing government secrets. In tweets, Trump referred to him as "the Pakistani mystery man" and vaguely suggested that he was tied to the hacking of the DNC's email servers.

However, Awan's guilty plea on Tuesday was unrelated to his work as an IT consultant.

Awan's attorney, Christopher Gowen, said his client acknowledged that in December 2016, he had submitted an online loan application listing a property in his wife's name as her primary residence. It was instead a rental property.

Gowan said Awan's misrepresentation was "wrong" and aimed at speeding the loan approval so that he could send money to his ailing father in Pakistan.

As The Washington Post notes, "the agreement included an unusual passage that described the scope of the investigation and cleared Awan of a litany of conspiracy theories promulgated on Internet blogs, picked up by right-leaning news sites and fanned by Trump on Twitter."

That's weird. He had a server, well bits of it anyway, in his garage when he was arrested and we know for sure that he had government stuff on it. Wasserman Schultz as much as declared it by her illegal behavior with the DC police.

As much as declared it? Do tell.

Threatening an officer, as she does here, is a textbook example of OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE. I know you hate to acknowledge it when it is your people doing it, but that is the law. You're welcome.

Ok, I sat through the entire 6:30 of that video and saw nothing wrong. I'm guessing you didn't watch it or you would know that.

You're welcome.