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by Tyler Durden
Aug 21, 2017 7:20 PM
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A chief of staff for Democratic Rep. Yvette Clarke quietly agreed in early 2016 to sign away a $120,000 missing electronics problem on behalf of two former IT aides now suspected of stealing equipment from Congress, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned.
Clarke’s chief of staff at the time effectively dismissed the loss and prevented it from coming up in future audits by signing a form removing the missing equipment from a House-wide tracking system after one of the Awan brothers alerted the office the equipment was gone. The Pakistani-born brothers are now at the center of an FBI investigation over their IT work with dozens of Congressional offices.
The $120,000 figure amounts to about a tenth of the office’s annual budget, or enough to hire four legislative assistants to handle the concerns of constituents in her New York district. Yet when one of the brothers alerted the office to the massive loss, the chief of staff signed a form that quietly reconciled the missing equipment in the office budget, the official told TheDCNF. Abid Awan remained employed by the office for months after the loss of the equipment was flagged.
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originally posted by: Regnor
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
So one of the Awan brothers alerted the office that equipment was missing, so that means they stole it?
originally posted by: Regnor
a reply to: ElectricUniverse
So one of the Awan brothers alerted the office that equipment was missing, so that means they stole it?
originally posted by: theultimatebelgianjoke
a reply to: ElectricUniverse