{"id":180051,"date":"2017-07-27T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T00:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/27\/this-is-fed-up-and-sh-6\/"},"modified":"2017-07-27T19:17:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T00:17:00","slug":"this-is-fed-up-and-sh-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2017\/07\/27\/this-is-fed-up-and-sh-6\/","title":{"rendered":"This is F%$#ed Up and Sh%$"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I wrote about a Pakistani crime ring operating out of the of a number of Democratic Congressional offices<\/a>.  (As if that wasn’t weird enough).<\/p>\n

It turns out that they got fired once the investigations of equipment and data theft became known by every office at which they worked, except for Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

She did not fire her larcenous staffer until after his arrest for fraud:<\/p>\n

When a computer expert who worked for congressional Democrats was accused of stealing computers and data systems in February, members of Congress cut him loose within days, leaving Imran Awan with no supporters five months later.<\/span>

<\/span> Except for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.<\/span>

<\/span> The Weston Democrat has not explained in detail why she continued to employ Awan until Tuesday when she fired him \u2014 after he was arrested on bank-fraud charges at Dulles International Airport in Virginia attempting to board a flight to Pakistan.<\/span>

<\/span> And she has not elaborated on what work Awan did for her after he lost access to the House computer network.<\/span>

<\/span> She declined to answer questions about Awan in Washington on Wednesday, and her spokesman, David Damron, accompanied her to the House floor while instructing a reporter that Wasserman Schultz would not take questions about her former employee.<\/p>\n

\u2026\u2026\u2026<\/p>\n

But months after Awan was fired by everyone else, Wasserman Schultz grilled Capitol Police Chief Matthew Verderosa in May over why computer equipment was confiscated from her office as part of the investigation into Awan even though she was not under investigation.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnder my understanding, the Capitol police are not able to confiscate a member\u2019s equipment when the member is not under investigation,\u201d Wasserman Schultz said. \u201cIt is their equipment and it is supposed to be returned.\u201d<\/p>\n

Verderosa told Wasserman Schultz that he couldn\u2019t return the equipment without the permission of the investigation.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Am I the only one who thinks that this is hinky beyond words?<\/p>\n

There are only two reasons I can see behind this, either Awan has something truly damming on DWS, or DWS hired Awan to spy on her colleagues in Congress.<\/p>\n

Something here is crookeder than \u2026\u2026\u2026 sh%$ \u2026\u2026\u2026 I’ve run out of analogies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I wrote about a Pakistani crime ring operating out of the of a number of Democratic Congressional offices.  (As if that wasn’t weird enough). It turns out that they got fired once the investigations of equipment and data theft became known by every office at which they worked, except for Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s office. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[447,368,435,374,541,421],"class_list":["post-180051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congress","tag-corruption","tag-crimes","tag-politics","tag-security","tag-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180051"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}