{"id":81292,"date":"2017-08-17T18:32:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T22:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81292"},"modified":"2017-08-17T19:34:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T23:34:53","slug":"report-wasserman-schultzs-it-aide-awan-indicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=81292","title":{"rendered":"Report: Wasserman Schultz&#8217;s IT Aide Awan Indicted"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><!--more--><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/video.foxnews.com\/v\/embed.js?id=5532991718001&#038;w=466&#038;h=263\"><\/script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=\"\/\/video.foxnews.com\">video.foxnews.com<\/a><\/noscript><br \/>\nFox News&#8217; &#8220;Tucker Carlson Tonight&#8221;<\/h5>\n<p>By Eric Mack<br \/>\nNEWSMAX<\/p>\n<p>Imran Awan, the I.T. aide of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., has been indicted on four counts, including bank fraud and making false statements, according to a <strong>Fox News report<\/strong> Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, have been indicted by U.S. District Court grand jury in Washington, D.C., nearly a month after being arrested at Virginia&#8217;s Dulles Airport trying to board a flight back to his home in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Wasserman Schultz, who resigned as Democratic National Committee chairwoman amid the WikiLeaks email controversy, has been criticized for <strong>continuing to pay Awan<\/strong>, 37, for six months after he had been fired by Congress and banned from the House of Representatives&#8217; IT network.<\/p>\n<p>She was<strong> forced to fire Awan<\/strong> in July, but only after he had been arrested after an investigation for mortgage fraud.<\/p>\n<p>Among the allegations, Awan and his wife, naturalized American citizens from Pakistan, wired $283,000 to Pakistan in January, including $165,000 from the home equity line of credit, according to court documents as reported by the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.<\/p>\n<p>Amid criticism of her ties to Awans, Wasserman Schultz ripped the &#8220;right-wing media circus fringe&#8221; for the negative publicity as a cover-up for the FBI&#8217;s investigation in Russia meddling in the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any opportunity they can to pull people\u2019s eyes and ears away from that they take,&#8221; she told the Sun-Sentinel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;. . . The right-wing media circus fringe has immediately focused not on this run-of-the-mill investigation just reporting the facts, but jumped to outrageous, egregious conclusions that they were trying to, that they have ties to terrorists, and that they were stealing data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/debbie-wasserman-schultz-IT-aide-imran-awan-indicted\/2017\/08\/17\/id\/808286\/\">http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/Newsfront\/debbie-wasserman-schultz-IT-aide-imran-awan-indicted\/2017\/08\/17\/id\/808286\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}