https://pjmedia.com/election/2017/07/27/imran-awan-scandal-s hows-just-how-much-dirt-dems-wanted-to-hide-by-focusing-on-trump-russia/ Imran Awan Scandal Shows Just How Much Dirt Dems Wanted to Hide By Focusing on Trump-Russia
*DNC Chairwoman, Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) speaks during a Florida delegation breakfast July 25, 2016, in Philadelphia on the first day of the Democratic National Convention. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)* When U.S. Capitol Police, the FBI, and Customs and Border Protection teamed up to arrest Imran Awan <https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/07/25/wasserman-schultz-it-staffer-arrested-at-dulles-airport-trying-to-flee-country/>, an IT staffer for Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) and other congressional Democrats, Americans began to realize just how broken and corrupt the Democratic Party has become. Indeed, such scandals beg the question of whether the Trump-Russia hype has not been a desperate attempt to distract the country from a long train of scandals on the Left. Awan was arrested Monday night on charges of bank fraud, to which he has pled not guilty. As *Forbes*' Frank Miniter argued <https://www.forbes.com/sites/frankminiter/2017/07/26/this-exploding-dnc-story-is-crazier-than-fiction-maybe-rep-wasserman-schultz-can-explain/#330addb64414>, however, his strange case "has all the feeling of the opening scene of a movie that might soon include political corruption and so much more." *Politico* reported <http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/25/debbie-wasserman-schultz-aide-arrest-240960?mid=89339&rid=33044660> that Awan is "at the center of a criminal investigation potentially impacting dozens of lawmakers." He was arrested after wiring $283,000 from the Congressional Federal Credit Union to Pakistan, The Daily Caller reported <http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/25/wasserman-schultzs-it-aide-arrested-trying-to-flee-the-country/?mid=89339&rid=33044660> . PJ Media's Debra Heine has been on the story since it broke in February <https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/02/08/why-are-democrat-house-it-staffers-under-criminal-investigation-still-employed/> of this year. Imran Awan and his Pakistani-born brothers, Abid and Jamal Awan, are under criminal investigation by the U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI on suspicion that they accessed congressional computers without permission and stole equipment. The Awan brothers worked for more than 30 House and Senate Democrats, as well as former Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who only fired Imran Awan on Tuesday after his arrest. News of the investigation broke in February, but Schultz kept Awan on staff for five months before firing him. Schultz even threatened Capitol Police Chief Matthew Verderosa <https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/05/24/there-will-be-consequences-debbie-wasserman-schultz-threatens-capitol-police-chief/> about the investigation in May. The family had repeated long-term financial struggles, despite extraordinarily high salaries <https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/07/25/wasserman-schultz-it-staffer-arrested-at-dulles-airport-trying-to-flee-country/> for congressional IT aides. Jamal, who public records suggest is only 22 years old, was paid nearly $160,000 annually, three times the average House IT staff salary. Abid was paid $161,000 and Amran $165,000. Even so, the family has a history of massive debts <http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/07/congress-it-probe-suspects-had-massive-debts-years-of-suspicious-activity/#ixzz4Y4eoKzlP> and bankruptcy. Abid Awan had more than $1 million in debts following a failed business called Cars International that he ran in Falls Church, Va., from November 2009 to September 2010. Business associates said in court documents that Abid had stolen money and vehicles from them. Just this past weekend, The Daily Caller reported that FBI agents seized damaged computer hard drives <http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/23/exclusive-fbi-seized-smashed-hard-drives-from-wasserman-schultz-it-aides-home/> from the Awan family last February. According to sources, it looked like someone had "tried to destroy" the hard drives. Sound familiar <https://pjmedia.com/election/2016/02/12/hillary-clinton-destroys-computer-in-new-cruz-office-space-ad/> ? Other House IT aides <https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/05/22/house-aides-wonder-if-dem-it-suspects-are-blackmailing-members-of-congress/> wondered whether the Awans were blackmailing the Democrats who waited so long to fire them. "I don't know what they have, but they have something on someone. 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