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2017-12-21 Home Front: Politix

House IT Scandal looks like Intelligence Op/Money Laundering

[DailyCaller] The used car dealership known as CIA never seemed like an ordinary car dealership, with inventory, staff and expenses.

On its Facebook page, CIA’s “staff” were fake personalities such as “James Falls O’Brien,” whose photo was taken from a hairstyle model catalog, and “Jade Julia,” whose image came from a web page called “Beautiful Girls Wallpaper.”

If a customer showed up looking to buy a car from Cars International A, often referred to as CIA, Abid Awan — who was managing partner of the dealership while also earning $160,000 handling IT for House Democrats — would frequently simply go across the street to another dealership called AAA Motors and get one.

“If AAA borrows a car to Cars International and they have a customer, it was simply take the car across the street and sell it, and then later on give the profit back or not,” Nasir Khattak, who ran the longstanding AAA dealership, testified in a lawsuit. “There was no documentation… If you go and try to dissect, you will not be able to make any sense out of them because there were many, dozens and dozens, of cars transferred between the two dealerships and between other people.”

Khattak did not explain why he would ruin his existing business to help the Awans. “All of those transactions was to support Cars International A from AAA Motors,” he testified. “That’s why I did not make any money from my dealership because my resources were supporting Cars International A.”

He said only Imran Awan knew what became of the money. “It was Imram, [Abid] Awan’s brother, who was running the business in full control,” he said.

Imran Awan and his family members were congressional IT aides who investigators said made unauthorized access to the House Democratic Caucus server thousands of times. At the same time as they worked for and could read all the emails of congressmen who sat on committees like Intelligence, Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs, they also ran a car dealership that took money from a Hezbollah-linked fugitive and whose financial books were indecipherable and business patterns bizarre, according to testimony in court records.

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, according to an explosive new Politico expose.

The money that disappeared between the Awans’ dealership, some $7 million in congressional pay, the equipment suspected of disappearing from Congress under their watch, and their other side businesses — all while they displayed few signs of wealth and frequently haggled in court over small amounts of money — raise questions about whether the Awans might have been laundering money or sending it to a third party.

“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,” said Wayne Black, a private investigator who served as law enforcement group supervisor in Janet Reno’s Miami public corruption unit. “My instincts tell me Awan was probably operating a foreign intelligence gathering operation on US soil.”

Posted by NoMoreBS 2017-12-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top
File under: Hezbollah

#1 New angle. One report ala Operation Cassandra estimated some 100 Mooslim car lots doing same.

Posted by Woodrow 2017-12-21 07:12|| 2017-12-21 07:12|| Front Page Top

#2 “My instincts tell me Awan was probably operating a foreign intelligence gathering operation on US soil.”

Less than 10 miles away, and to think in all of those years no one noticed. Simply amazing isn't it ?

Posted by Besoeker 2017-12-21 07:51|| 2017-12-21 07:51|| Front Page Top

#3 There were signs that the House Democratic Caucus’ server “is being used for nefarious purposes” by the Awans, according to a House investigation, and “steps are being taken to conceal their activity.”

My instincts tell me we have not gotten to the bottom of this story with all the linkages and complicities. I have a sneaking suspicion that Debbie Wasserman Schultz, other Donks and members of the deep state ought to be squeezed hard ~~(read as waterboarded if you want)~~ until this mess gets unraveled.

Posted by JohnQC 2017-12-21 09:17|| 2017-12-21 09:17|| Front Page Top

#4 If the Awan's populated 'off site' server(s) as has been reported, the potential for the Awan's to have been milking the both cows (US Intelligence as well as Paki Intelligence) should be closely examined.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-12-21 09:26|| 2017-12-21 09:26|| Front Page Top

#5 Less than 10 miles away, and to think in all of those years no one noticed. Simply amazing isn't it ?

It wasn't PC to notice. You can't talk or express openly, negative things about brown people. Where have you been? /sarc

Posted by Whusoper Threting3423 2017-12-21 17:21|| 2017-12-21 17:21|| Front Page Top

#6 In and out of every congressional office, and a proven transport route of only ten miles across state lines. Wonder what they were hauling in those cars?

Posted by Skidmark 2017-12-21 19:53|| 2017-12-21 19:53|| Front Page Top

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