Rep. Cleaver hired former 'Mickey D' burger-flipper to manage his data for 3 years

"The Cleav"

Democratic Missouri Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (no relation to Beaver Cleaver as "The Beav" is a fictional character) hired Rao Abbas, a former McDonald's hamburger-flipper, to manage his digital data for three years.

"The Beav"

Cleaver  paid Abbas $60,000 as his IT guy in order to cover his actual IT guy, Imran Awan. He claimed on an audio recording that the now-indicted Imran Awan was actually his guy, a very un-kosher move.

The Democratic congress-crumb is facing a serious ethics complaint for paying an unqualified former McDonald's employee to manage his data for 3 years and allegedly admitting he handed over control of his server to Pakistani-American, and now indicted scumwafer, Imran Awan, despite Awan not being on his staff.

It isn't clear whether any sensitive government information was secreted to the Pakistani government, but the possibility definitely exists.

A complaint against Cleaver asks the Congressional Ethics Office to investigate his response to a question about his IT aide Rao Abbas, whose previous job was flipping burgers and wiping counters at a McDonald's restaurant.

"Imran is the guy who worked in our office," Cleaver said on an audio recording. "I don't know this other guy."

"The other guy"

But payroll records tell a different story. They show Awan wasn't on Cleaver's payroll, and for the last 3 years, the only person he authorized to manage his servers was a burger server named Rao Abbas.

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Trump shines a light on ex-Dem IT aide Imran Awan

So whatever became of the federal court case against Imran Awan, the former IT aide to congressional Democrats, particularly his most ardent defender, Debbie Wasserman Schultz? An inquiring president wants to know.

President Trump is throwing a stick for the media to chase regarding the Pakistani who is alleged to have committed bank fraud, as is Bernie Sanders' wife. 

"Whatever happened to this Pakistani guy who worked with the DNC?" he asked in an interview published Thursday in The New York Times. 

Both Awan and his lovely wife Hina Alvi, were charged with a total of four counts, which included federal bank fraud and conspiracy. Awan pleaded not guilty to all charges.

"Whatever happened to them?" Trump repeated. "With the two servers that they broke up into a million pieces? Whatever happened to them?"

Awan hasn't been charged with anything related to his specific IT duties in Congress, but Debbie Wasserman Schultz seems to have 'a thing' for him. 

The case has Republican lawmakers concerned about the Pakistani's access to sensitive information and he, along with other IT aides for House Democrats, have been on investigators' radar for months over concerns of alleged (ha) equipment theft, access to sensitive computer systems that would make terrorists dance in the streets and hand out halvah, and more, according to reports going back to the beginning of the year.

Awan and Alvi (remember, his lovely wife) are facing allegations they conspired to get home equity lines of credit from the Congressional Federal Credit Union by using taqiyya (lying) about two properties and sending the money to individuals (possibly terrorists, possibly ice cream vendors) in Pakistan.

Awan was born in Pakistan and came to the U.S. with his family when he was a teenager. He became a U.S. citizen over ten years ago, but he left his heart in Islamabad.

The case surrounding Awan has created renewed scrutiny on Wasserman Schultz for allowing him to stay on the payroll for months after the criminal investigation was revealed and he was barred from the House IT network, which greatly angered Mamnoon Hussain for unknown reasons.

Most lawmakers fired Awan in February when the news came out, but Wasserman Schultz kept him on until his arrest in July. That's when she knew their relationship was over, professional or otherwise, you make the call.

Earlier this month, prosecutors warned that Awan is a "flight risk" and could head to Pakistan if a judge approves his request to lift "all of the conditions of his release."

U.S. Attorney Jessie Liu filed a motion urging the U.S. District court to deny Awan's request.

Awan is now enrolled in the High Intensity Supervision Program (HISP) with conditions he abide by an electronically monitored curfew of 12 a.m. to 6 a.m. and limit traveling beyond 150 miles from his home. Pakistan is about 7,069 miles from his current home, which is probably why he filed the request, and also to have his monitoring bracelet removed in order to make a clean break.

The only question is, would Awan make that break with Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a married congresswoman with a slight lisp who has troubles of her own and might see Awan and Pakistan as a new lease on life, if she doesn't tell them that she's Jewish.

"While the government possesses Awan's Pakistani passport, nothing prevents him from obtaining a new Pakistani passport at the Embassy in D.C. That passport would permit Awan to board a flight and leave the country at any time," the motion read. "The government asserts that Awan is a flight risk and that his participation in HISP is by far the least restrictive condition that can be imposed on him to ensure his return to Court."

Wasserman Schultz refuses to see any wrongdoing by Awan and naturally blames the "right-wing media circus fringe," for the attention on Awan. 

Yeah sure, the right-wing media is everywhere, from ABC to CBS to MSNBC to CNN. Heck, even Netflix is left-wing.

Perhaps we should focus more on Debbie Wasserman Schultz. Think about that, Mr. President.



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