From Paul Mirengoff’s article at powerlineblog.com:
The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust (FACT), an ethics watchdog group, has filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Ethics against Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. The complaint pertains to the House IT scandal. We wrote about that matter here and here.
Peter Hasson of the Daily Caller reports that the complaint centers on the fact that Wasserman Schultz continued to employ House IT aide Imran Awan even while he was under criminal investigation and banned from the House computer network. Awan and several of his family members who worked for various House Democrats are suspected of stealing computers and improperly accessing and transferring House members’ computer files.
Other House Democrats fired Awan family members after the scandal broke in February. However, Wasserman Schultz did not fire Imran Awan until late July when he was arrested for bank fraud at Dulles Airport as he was leaving for Pakistan.
Not only did Wasserman Schultz retain Awan’s services after the scandal broke, she threatened the chief of the U.S. Capitol Police with “consequences” for holding equipment in furtherance of the police investigation into the Awans. She demanded the equipment back.
NOW will mainstream media start covering this scandal?’
Or is the Washington Post’s big scoop that – according to unnamed sources – President Trump may have helped his son write a letter, still much more important?
My next blog will discuss why media will not let go of the Trump-Russia collusion non-story and will not, at least so far, pick up on the awan scandal.
