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2020-02-09 -Lurid Crime Tales-
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House IT Aides Ran Car Dealership With Markings Of A Nefarious Money Laundering Operation
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 Forwarded late last evening by our very own Classical_Liberal as a comment and link. Might just become relevant as current events in Washington unfold, or at least one can hope.
[Daily Caller from 19 Dec 2017] 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.
Possibly related bonus link: Quartz - Spot a US-issued diplomatic license plate? Decode it here.
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