New Book Reveals Deep State Role in Pakistani Infiltration of House Democrats
Every conspiracy has its leader. And the alpha conspirator here was an aggressive con artist from Pakistan named Imran Awan. Born in 1980, Awan came to the U.S. as a teenager, settling in suburban northern Virginia near Washington, D.C. He became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2004, the same year he found employment as an information technology specialist for then-Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Fla. His position, which eventually reached an outsized $165,000-a-year salary, amounted to a no-show job. He focused most of his energies on various business ventures in the U.S. and back home. Every one of them, Rosiak argues convincingly, was a scam. Awan often bragged of his invincibility made possible by political connections, claiming in one instance that he had the power to “change the U.S. president.” Family members, similarly overpaid (and underqualified) IT specialists for House Democrats, also devoted inordinate amounts of time to these side projects. They consisted of Imran’s wife (one of two wives, actually – and also a first cousin), Hina Alvi; Imran’s brothers Abid and Jamal; Abid Imran’s Ukrainian-born wife, Natalia Sova; and a close family friend, Rao Abbas. Other than Imran Awan, these people had little or no prior training in information technology, which begs the issue of why they were hired in the first place.
The book documents substantial evidence of the Awan crew’s many fraudulent schemes. “Outside of Congress,” writes Rosiak, “Imran Awan was known as a predator who would stop at nothing for a buck.” The author cites numerous examples of his alleged fraud, embezzlement, extortion and money-laundering via enterprises whose existence he failed to disclose on requisite House ethics disclosure forms. Awan’s lawyer told Rosiak that he had “no idea” as to the nature of these companies, a sure sign that law enforcement agents never bothered to ask.
To call these enterprises “businesses,” as Rosiak argues, would be a major stretch. Imran Awan’s real estate operation in northern Virginia consisted of buying homes and renting them out to unsuspecting tenants whom he later would falsely accuse of rent nonpayment and property damage so as to shake them down for money. On occasion he put properties in the names of family members to facilitate mortgage fraud. His short-lived car dealership, with brother Abid Awan as the front man, was no more reputable. Many of the cars he sold were badly defective yet if a customer requested repairs free of charge, Imran typically refused to provide service and threatened that person with “dire consequences,” a favorite phrase of his. The operation, faced with unpayable debts, went out of business soon enough, but Imran Awan covered his tracks by making a business partner into the fall guy. Awan allegedly also used the dealership to launder a $100,000 loan from a Baghdad-born doctor in suburban Maryland who had fled the U.S. to avoid arrest for committing more than $2 million worth of health care fraud.
One of Imran Awan’s companies, New Dawn 2001 LLC, alone should have raised a red flag. According to official records, that enterprise actually was created in 2011. “Part of me wondered, what happened in 2001 that a Pakistani might consider a ‘new dawn?’” Rosiak asks rhetorically, alluding to events that September 11. That question seemed to elude law enforcement. Imran Awan also commuted to and from Pakistan to conduct sham real estate transactions, in one case, targeting a group of faculty at the University of Faisalbad.
Awan’s home life was no more reputable than his work life. His wives Hina Alvi and Sumaria Siddique lived in constant fear of his violent outbursts. On one occasion he stood outside the Pakistan home of Sumaira Siddique’s father, fully aware she was inside with him, and fired off a gunshot. Rosiak went to the trouble of protecting Siddique for a while. Imran Awan and his brothers also falsely imprisoned their stepmother during October 2016-February 2017 to ensure that they would receive life insurance benefits from their dying father in Pakistan.
This same Imran Awan was the lead cybersecurity geek for well over 40 Democrats in the House of Representatives. Those jobs provided ample cover for extracurricular behavior. With access to all emails and files of these lawmakers and staffers, they had potential dirt on a lot of people. Worse, as “shared employees,” providing service to those dozens of lawmakers on an as-needed basis, the House members who hired them were less than attentive to detail. The Awans effectively had carte blanche for breaching security. Evidence indicates they took advantage of the situation.
https://nlpc.org/2019/03/01/new-book-reveals-deep-state-role-in-pakistani-infiltration-of-house-democrats/