Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Pakistani IT Scammers...By Andrew C. McCarthy

[mystery-ak]

 Debbie Wasserman Schultz and the Pakistani IT Scammers
There’s more than bank fraud going on here.
By Andrew C. McCarthy — July 29, 2017

In Washington, it’s never about what they tell you it’s about. So take this to the bank: The case of Imran Awan, Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s mysterious Pakistani IT guy, is not about bank fraud.

Yet bank fraud was the stated charge on which Awan was arrested at Dulles Airport this week, just as he was trying to flee the United States for Pakistan, via Qatar. That is the same route taken by Awan’s wife, Hina Alvi, in March, when she suddenly fled the country, with three young daughters she yanked out of school, mega-luggage, and $12,400 in cash.

By then, the proceeds of the fraudulent $165,000 loan they’d gotten from the Congressional Federal Credit Union had been sent ahead. It was part of a $283,000 transfer that Awan managed to wire from Capitol Hill. He pulled it off — hilariously, if infuriatingly — by pretending to be his wife in a phone call with the credit union. Told that his proffered reason for the transfer (“funeral arrangements”) wouldn’t fly, “Mrs.” Awan promptly repurposed: Now “she” was “buying property.” Asking no more questions, the credit union wired the money . . . to Pakistan.

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[Oceander]

The bank fraud charge would then be the fig leaf needed to justify keeping hold of him.  And technically, by pretending to be his wife he did commit bank fraud.

[Bigun]

From the article

"Awan and his family cabal of fraudsters had access for years to the e-mails and other electronic files of members of the House’s Intelligence and Foreign Affairs Committees."   

The question is WHY ?  and what did they do with all the information they had access to?

[Hondo69]

It's not that hard to wire money around the world, but these days there are lots of rules that didn't exist in the past.  For example, some countries such as Pakistan make it more difficult than others to wire money.  And money leaving the U.S. has certain rules when the amount is over $ 5,000.  In this case, it is way over that amount so would be subject to very close scrutiny by the bank (credit union) before the transfer is ever released.