FBI: Wassermann Schultz Aide Sold Classified Intel To Enemy Governments
Sean Adl-Tabatabai
YourNewsWire.com
August 21, 2017
The FBI have confirmed that classified data was stolen and sold onto foreign adversaries by Debbie Wassermann Schultz’ aide, Imran Awan.
Investigators suspect that sensitive and perhaps classified US government data could have been sold to hostile foreign governments in order to blackmail members of Congress.
Nypost.com reports: “This is a massive, massive scandal,” a senior US official familiar with the widening probe told The Post.
Alarm bells went off in April 2016 when computer security officials in the House reported “irregularities” in computer equipment purchasing. An internal investigation revealed the theft of hundreds of thousands of dollars in government property, and evidence pointed to five IT staffers and the Democratic Congress members’ offices that employed them.
The evidence was turned over to the House inspector general, who found so much “smoke” that she recommended a criminal probe, sources say. The case was turned over to Capitol Police in October.
When the suspected IT workers couldn’t produce the missing invoiced equipment, sources say, they were removed from working on the computer network in early February.
During the probe, investigators found valuable government data that is believed to have been taken from the network and placed on offsite servers, setting off more alarms. Some 80 offices were potentially compromised.
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