{"id":92028,"date":"2017-12-29T08:27:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T12:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=92028"},"modified":"2017-12-29T08:27:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T12:27:43","slug":"did-awans-cut-a-deal-january-court-date-mysteriously-disappears-from-docket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=92028","title":{"rendered":"Did Awans Cut A Deal? January Court Date Mysteriously Disappears From Docket"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more-->ZeroHedge.com<\/p>\n<p>Luke Rosiak of\u00a0<em>The Daily Caller<\/em>\u00a0pointed out a\u00a0mysterious twist in the case\u00a0of Pakistani national and long-time DNC\u00a0IT\u00a0contractor, Imran Awan &#8211;\u00a0who was arrested in July at Dulles Airport while trying to flee the country\u00a0<strong>after having wired nearly $300,000 to Pakistan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Awan&#8217;s court date on four counts related to bank fraud, which had already been reschedule\u00a0twice,\u00a0<strong>has disappeared from the docket altogether:<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/awan.PNG\" alt=\"asdf\" width=\"494\" height=\"208\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"a5dbb82d-4121-4a4a-9cb0-23df257959b4\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Which begs the question &#8211;\u00a0<strong>did Imran Awan cut a deal with Federal prosecutors?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Of note &#8211; Imran&#8217;s wife, Hina Alvi &#8211; who had fled to Pakistan in March with the Awan children,\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2017\/09\/06\/former-dem-it-staffer-strikes-deal-to-return-from-pakistan-and-face-charges-in-us.html\">struck a deal<\/a>\u00a0with federal prosecutors in September to return to the U.S. and face charges.\u00a0<\/strong>One wonders why Alvi\u00a0would willingly leave the relative security\u00a0of her family in Pakistan to face arraignment in the United States?<\/p>\n<p>To briefly recap, our\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-12-19\/wasserman-schultz-it-aides-ran-shady-cia-car-dealership-borrowed-100k-hezbollah-fugi\">report from last week<\/a><\/strong>, the Awan family &#8211; which was employed by quite a number of House Democrats,\u00a0<strong>had full access to highly sensitive Congressional computer systems<\/strong>, both on-site\u00a0<strong>and remotely from Pakistan<\/strong>, with which\u00a0they are suspected of committing a variety of crimes &#8211; including brokering classified information to hostile foreign governments.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KDVFAnZsnJk\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Of note, the Awans had access to the\u00a0<strong>House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence<\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; whose members have top secret clearance and are looking into Russian election interference.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Clip of the year?  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/replouiegohmert?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@replouiegohmert<\/a> learns from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lukerosiak?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@lukerosiak<\/a> that Debbie Wasserman Schultz indicted staffer teleworking and providing House Dem IT &quot;support&quot; from Pakistan!  Full <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JudicialWatch?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JudicialWatch<\/a> discussion here&#8230;.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4HwY3Jgvd2\">https:\/\/t.co\/4HwY3Jgvd2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VVjkiujJqo\">pic.twitter.com\/VVjkiujJqo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tom Fitton (@TomFitton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TomFitton\/status\/942413693488418816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 17, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Pakistani nationals also operated a\u00a0<b>shady used car dealership in Falls Church, VA operating uner the title\u00a0&#8220;CIA&#8221;\u00a0<\/b>which Luke Rosiak of\u00a0<em>The Daily Caller<\/em>\u00a0reported\u00a0<strong>has all the signs of a money laundering\u00a0operation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On its Facebook page,\u00a0<strong>CIA\u2019s \u201cstaff\u201d were fake personalities such as \u201cJames Falls O\u2019Brien,\u201d whose photo was taken from a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/imgres?imgurl=http:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/736x\/65\/e0\/5f\/65e05f363ca3f0e1cdd67679e2cba404--mohawk-hairstyles-hairstyles-for-short-hair.jpg&amp;imgrefurl=http:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/kristsuarez\/mens-hair-styles\/&amp;h=400&amp;w=286&amp;tbnid=k1F59TvGRzqXWM&amp;tbnh=266&amp;tbnw=190&amp;usg=__RwcxmHMPHekndM7zQBPdbpga3rk=&amp;hl=en&amp;docid=ivkAp5CbwSra7M&amp;itg=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">hairstyle mode<\/a>l catalog, and \u201cJade Julia,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0whose image came from a web page called \u201cBeautiful Girls Wallpaper.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If a customer showed up looking to buy a car from Cars International A, often referred to as CIA, Abid Awan \u2014 who was managing partner of the dealership while also earning $160,000 handling IT for House Democrats \u2014 would frequently simply go across the street to longstanding dealership called AAA Motors and get one.<\/p>\n<p><strong>While Imran and Abid Awan ran their car dealership in Falls Church, Va. in the early part of the decade, Drug Enforcement Agency officials a few miles away in Chantilly were learning that the Iranian-linked terrorist group frequently deployed used car dealerships in the US to launder money and fund terrorism<\/strong>, according to an explosive new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/interactives\/2017\/obama-hezbollah-drug-trafficking-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politico expose.<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;<em><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/12\/19\/house-it-aides-ran-car-dealership-with-markings-of-a-nefarious-money-laundering-operation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daily Calle<\/a><\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/12\/19\/house-it-aides-ran-car-dealership-with-markings-of-a-nefarious-money-laundering-operation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">r<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Based on the modest way Awan was living, it is my opinion that he was sending most of his money to a group or criminal organization that could very well be connected with the Pakistani government<\/strong>,\u201d said Wayne Black &#8211; a private investigator who worked in Janet Reno&#8217;s Miami public corruption unit, adding &#8220;<strong>My instincts tell me Awan was probably operating a foreign intelligence gathering operation on US soil.<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In February, the\u00a0<em>Daily Caller<\/em>\u00a0dropped two bombshells: that the Awans were under criminal investigation after being caught accessing congressional computers without permission, and they had\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/02\/20\/exclusive-house-dem-it-guys-in-security-probe-secretly-took-100k-in-iraqi-money\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">borrowed, laundered, and never repaid<\/a>\u00a0$100,000 from a shady Iraqi expat physician \u2013\u00a0<strong>Dr. Ali al-Attar<\/strong>, a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/02\/21\/congressional-computer-admins-in-criminal-probe-owed-money-to-hezbollah-connected-fugitive\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hezbollah-linked fugitive<\/a>\u00a0who led a group of other expats\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/user237925\/imageroot\/2017\/12\/10\/totalfraud.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">which regularly advised the Bush administration<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0on their plans to invade Iraq in 2002-2003 (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/articles\/paul-wolfowitzs-iran-connection\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">source<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The money which the Awans borrowed\u00a0<strong>was moved from Ali Al-Attar through accounts intended for Fairfax County real estate<\/strong>. Both Imran Awan and Khattak \u2014 who also put up $200,000 in cash as an investor in CIA \u2014 had realtors licenses.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img\" role=\"group\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/alia.PNG\" alt=\"asdf\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"73cef7f8-0c61-4def-a1c9-36a8152b0485\" \/><figcaption><em>Dr. Ali al-Attar<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Al-Attar\u2019s license to practice medicine was revoked by the Maryland State Board of Physicians and he had to pay a $50,000 fine for unprofessional conduct, healthcare fraud, and failure to cooperate with an investigation.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s not clear where the dealership\u2019s money was going, because it was sued by at least five different people on all ends of a typical car business who said they were stiffed. CIA didn\u2019t pay the security deposit, rent or taxes for its building, it didn\u2019t pay wholesalers who provided cars, and it sold broken cars to people and then refused to honor the warranties,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/4332988-Cia-Lawsuits.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the lawsuits say<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Moreover,\u00a0<\/strong><strong>when the Awans&#8217; shady car dealership ran into money troubles, Florida Congressman Theo Deutch began paying a monthly salary to a man who had threatened to sue the Awans<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img\" role=\"group\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/theoNO.png\" alt=\"asdf\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"f03b3b06-b666-45a1-9dc0-3dd8bef9a6b2\" \/><figcaption><em>Rep Theo Deutch (D-FL), Awan Benefactor<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>The brothers had numerous additional sources of income, all of which seemed to disappear. While they were supposedly working for the House, the brothers were running a car dealership full-time that didn\u2019t pay its vendors, and after one \u2014 Rao Abbas \u2014 threatened to sue them, he began receiving a paycheck from Rep. Theodore Deutch (D-FL), who like Wasserman Schultz represents Florida. &#8211;<em>Daily Caller<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Awans were also\u00a0<strong>turned into the Navy Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) by two renters occupying a home they owned<\/strong>, after\u00a0they found \u201cwireless routers,\u00a0<strong>hard drives that look like they tried to destro<\/strong>y, laptops, [and] a lot of brand new expensive toner\u201d in the garage.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the condition of anonymity over concerns for his wife&#8217;s naval career, the former Marine told the Daily Caller:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c<strong>It was in the garage. They recycled cabinets and lined them along the walls. They left in a huge hurry,\u201d\u00a0<\/strong>the Marine said. \u201c<strong>It looks like government-issued equipment. We turned that stuff over<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>If the Awans cut a deal<\/strong>, one might speculate that a\u00a0<strong>liberal prosecutor and a DNC-friendly\u00a0court\u00a0might be conducting a dog-and-pony show.\u00a0<\/strong>For months, rumors swirled that\u00a0brother of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Wasserman was handling the prosecution &#8211; however court filings reveal that assistant U.S. Attorney\u00a0<b>Michael J. Marando<\/b>\u00a0is handling the case. Marando is married to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/maYwQ\"><strong>JoAnna Wasserman<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0&#8211; an employee of the U.S. Holocaust Museum in D.C.<\/p>\n<p>While JoAnna Wasserman shares a maiden name with Debbie Wasserman Schultz, her parents are named Mark and Donna, while Debbie Wasserman Shultz&#8217;s parents are Larry and Ann Wasserman. Plus, if there&#8217;s any relation, JoAnna Wasserman got\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0of the family&#8217;s good genetics.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"caption caption-img\" role=\"group\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/schu.jpg\" alt=\"Wassermi\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"55b1b2ff-7b74-4684-b628-3078b07c5789\" \/><figcaption><em>US Attorney Michael J. Marando and wife JoAnna Wasserman (top). Steve Schultz and wife Debbie Wasserman Schultz (bottom)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While the\u00a0notion that Imran\u00a0Awan\u00a0cut a deal based on his name vanishing from the court calendar, Federal prosecutors certainly have enough evidence against the Awan clan to put them away for a long time. Perhaps they&#8217;ve decided they like the outside of a prison cell better than the alternative.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-12-28\/did-awans-cut-deal-january-court-date-mysteriously-disappears-docket\">http:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2017-12-28\/did-awans-cut-deal-january-court-date-mysteriously-disappears-docket<\/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-92028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92028","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=92028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}