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-Lurid Crime Tales-
House IT Aides Ran Car Dealership With Markings Of A Nefarious Money Laundering Operation
2020-02-09
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.
Related:
Abid Awan: 2018-11-13 Judicial Watch Sues DOJ for Records of Investigations into the Awan Brothers, Congressional Democrat IT Scandal
Abid Awan: 2018-05-23 Witness Said Awan Wiretapped Her, Then Bank Account She Controlled Was Drained
Abid Awan: 2017-12-21 House IT Scandal looks like Intelligence Op/Money Laundering
Related:
Nasir Khattak: 2017-12-21 House IT Scandal looks like Intelligence Op/Money Laundering
Related:
Imran Awan: 2020-01-15 Federal Court Orders Snap Hearing on Awan Brothers, Congressional Democrat IT Scandal After DOJ Files Document Under Seal
Imran Awan: 2019-12-22 Judge delays legal challenge by conservative group over Clinton emails
Imran Awan: 2019-12-15 DOJ Refuses To Release Records On Imran Awan, Citing ‘Technical Difficulties' And A Secret Case, Court Docs Show


Possibly related bonus link: Quartz - Spot a US-issued diplomatic license plate? Decode it here.
Posted by:Besoeker

#12  How.can this story not be investigated given such obvious corruption? Oh wait, Democrats and Muslim perps, so the MSM lets DWS and the dem power structure get away with it, and the FBI yet again is at best clueless or more likely waived off at the WFO.by the 7th floor of the Hoover building YJCMTSU!!!!
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2020-02-09 17:11  

#11  Dron, you there?
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-09 15:12  

#10   I cannot believe someone or a group of someone's wasn't exploiting it.

Like Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Clinton Foundation? Never did hear just why she kept Awan on.
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-02-09 14:43  

#9  Ref #6: ISI assets. They were allowed to leave town in an attempt to obscure who the Awans really were.

I can't believe our National Capital Region counterintelligence apparatus is that bad. Who they were actually working for is anyone's guess.

Likely working for whomever had the fattest wad of cash that day. Could have been receiving both internal DNC monitoring taskers from Other Gov't Agencies, and sending tailored stuff back to their ISI handlers in PAK. I have no proof or evidence of either, just postulating various possibilities.

The Awan's placement and acccess (P&A) was absolutely golden. I cannot believe someone or a group of someone's wasn't exploiting it.

Posted by: Besoeker   2020-02-09 12:32  

#8  Who the hell allowed the Awan bros to handle IT matters for certain Congresscritters? They must have been privy to classified materials.
Posted by: JohnQC   2020-02-09 12:21  

#7  Friends of Barry's Paki roommates from college?
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-09 10:10  

#6  ISI assets
They were allowed to leave town in an attempt to obscure who the Awans really were
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom    2020-02-09 09:48  

#5  Like Burisma, and the wacky Cyprus cutouts, truly a CIA operation?
Posted by: b   2020-02-09 09:28  

#4  /\ Yes, years ago (don't know if they even bother today), the counterintelligence division of the FBI used to follow these foks and track their activities. Switching plates and vehicles makes CI work a little more challenging.

Posted by: Besoeker   2020-02-09 07:58  

#3  B, that’s interesting on the plates. Hadn’t considered the “off the books” loaner car aspect. Used car inventory is a great way to do that.
Posted by: Classical_Liberal   2020-02-09 07:46  

#2  Git cher muzz mobile.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-02-09 02:04  

#1  Easy access to vehicles 'without' Diplomatic Plates would have been a huge benefit to foreign diplomatic personnel who desired un-monitored travel within or outside of the beltway.

With the exception of one stay-behind fellow who was arrested at Dulles on a tax violation, I believe the entire Awan family was permitted to return to Pakistan. Not sure where the tax violation case ended up.

When you learn of these strange occurrences that end up vaporizing or turning into 'bridges to nowhere', one is led to ask why ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-02-09 00:40  

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