Irwan Awan IT Scandle

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Irwan, Alvi Awan, another brother and two of their wives who managed information technology for some 80 Democratic lawmakers, including former Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., were relieved of their duties and barred from House computer network.  

Now-indicted former congressional IT aide Imran Awan allegedly secretly routed data from numerous House Democrats to a central server. Police grew suspicious and requested a copy of the server early this year, but they were provided with an elaborate falsified image designed to hide the massive violations. The secret server was connected to the House Democratic Caucus, an organization chaired by then-Rep. Xavier Becerra who vacated his seat and is now Attorney General of California. 

On Jan. 24, 2017, Becerra vacated his congressional seat to become California’s attorney general. “He wanted to wipe his server, and we brought to his attention it was under investigation. The light-off was we asked for an image of the server, and they deliberately turned over a fake server,” the senior official said.

In the spring of 2016, House administrators became aware that the Awans were allegedly falsifying purchase orders (double charging for hardware purchases).  The Awans purportedly took hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of computer equipment and potentially hacked into the lawmakers’ email accounts, saving emails on a central server and uploading them to an insecure dropbox account.  Investigators followed the trail and found that the misconduct extended to a major cybersecurity breach. 

After learning of the House probe, Awan and his wife, Hina Alvi, bought round-trip airline tickets,   frantically transferred hundreds of thousands of dollars to accounts in Pakistan, listed one house for sale and accepted a buyer on a second. Federal agents arrested the Irwan Awan at Dulles Airport in Virginia as he tried to flee the U.S. Tuesday and fly to the Mideast.

Awan's laptop was discovered in a crevice of a congressional office building. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been defending the Awans, denying and wrongdoing and stonewalling investigators access to study the laptop until only recently.  Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., continually backed Awan, obstructed investigators, and defends her decision to keep IT staffer Imran Awan on government payroll after she discovered he was under investigation for bank fraud.  Schultz claims she defended Awan because sge was never presented with any credible evidence of their wrongdoing and believed allegations were racially motivated.