Article snippet: Posted at 1:00 am on July 27, 2017 by Jennifer Van Laar Imran Awan, the ringleader of a group of Pakistani IT “professionals” who were employed by numerous Democrat members of Congress and the caucus itself, was arrested on bank fraud charges Monday at Dulles Airport as he was attempting to leave the country. Just prior to his jaunt out to Dulles, Awan had wired $283,000 from the Congressional Federal Credit Union to an account in Pakistan. Awan’s group has been under investigation for months for theft, IT abuses, and various financial schemes. The arrest came one day after the Daily Caller reported that the FBI had seized numerous smashed hard drives and other computer parts from Awan’s former residence in Virginia. Awan moved out of that home early this year, when he learned he was under investigation, and rented it to military families. Awan was arraigned at US District Court in Washington, DC and allowed to post bail and wear an ankle bracelet. Tuesday his attorney, Christopher Gowen, issued a statement blaming Islamophobia and that good old standby, the “vast right wing conspiracy” for making up this entirely false story against his client, who’s just a hard-working immigrant trying to make a better life for himself. From the statement [emphasis mine]: How many buzzwords can you count here? If you’ve read detailed accounts of the numerous and varied allegations against Awan, et al., you know they’re not utterly unsupported. But the dog whistle terms of “ant... Link to the full article to read more