Okay, this story about DWS's IT guy is major league weird, to the point of suspicious.
From FEBRUARY of this year:
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/house-staff-criminal-investigation-234714
Multiple Democratic lawmakers have yet to cut ties with House staffers under criminal investigation for wide-ranging equipment and data theft.
Imran Awan, a longtime House staffer who worked for more than two dozen Democrats since 2004, is still employed by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, though his access to the House IT network has been blocked since last week.
Five House staffers are accused of stealing equipment from members’ offices without their knowledge and committing serious, potentially illegal, violations on the House IT network, according to multiple sources briefed on the investigation.
Top staffers for lawmakers impacted by the scam were briefed last Thursday. A source in the briefing said the Sergeant-at-Arms confirmed the U.S. Capitol Police is conducting an active criminal investigation but said no arrests have been made.
Imran Awan was first employed on Capitol Hill by former Rep. Robert Wexler in January 2004 as an “information technology director.” Awan has worked for at least 25 other House Democrats since that time as a shared employee providing technical support including to previous House Democratic Caucus Chairman Xavier Becerra, currently the California attorney general.
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Several members who have employed Imran Awan and Alvi in the past confirmed to POLITICO they terminated their employment late last week.
Okay, that's over FIVE MONTHS AGO.
Flash forward to today:
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/25/debbie-wasserman-schultz-aide-arrest-240960
Imran Awan, a House staffer at the center of a criminal investigation potentially affecting dozens of Democratic lawmakers, has been arrested on a bank fraud charge and is prevented from leaving the country while the charge is pending.
A senior House Democratic aide confirmed Awan was still employed by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) as of Tuesday morning. But David Damron, a spokesman for Wasserman Schultz, later said that Awan was fired on Tuesday.
It took the guy being arrested and having his passport taken away due to an attempt to flee the country--FIVE MONTHS AFTER HE HAD BEEN BANNED FROM DOING HIS JOB--to get fired.
Most Democratic lawmakers cut ties with Awan and his family after the criminal investigation came to light in early February. But Awan continued to be employed by Wasserman Schultz, although it’s unclear what his job duties were, given he had been barred from accessing the House IT system for months.
So, either there's an extraordinary level of incompetence--once again touching upon an IT-related fiasco--or something else that just begs the fever-swamps of conspiracy theorists to fill in the blanks.
There's no good explanation for why a Congressional office continued to keep on its payroll a suspected criminal ringleader who had been banned from doing his job for that office.
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