FBI arrest former IT staffer for many Democrats in Congress
A real Washington scandal: The FBI on Tuesday arrested a former Congressional IT staffer as he was trying to flee the country.
The man, Imran Aran, had run the computer systems for many Democrats in Congress, including former DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz. And while most Democrats fired Aran when he came under investigation months ago, Wasserman Schultz had kept in on her payroll until his arrest this week.
Several details that give some important political context to this story, and are not mentioned in the CNN article above:
- Wasserman Schultz tried to use her position to get one of her laptops used by Aran back from DC police, even though it was evidence in a possible crime.
- The FBI had seized computer hard drives from Aran’s former
Wasserman Schultz’s home that had been smashed by a hammer.
- Aran is also accused of threatening his stepmother if she cooperated with authorities in the investigation.
- The arrest happened on Tuesday. CNN, along with all the major media outlets, did not think it important enough to report it until two days later. These mainstream outlets have also never thought any of the earlier stories above were worth reporting.
The last story above includes other details about how Aran also threatened the renter of his home for cooperating with police. As the renter (a Marine and apparently a Democrat) noted, “He’s dangerous. This is a crime syndicate that has successfully infiltrated Congress,” he said. “If Donald Trump and the Republicans had hired foreign nationals to be their top IT guys and somehow their congressional files had been compromised, this would have been all over the news.”
Update: The correction above is because the news article linked to had mistakenly said that the hard drives were taken from Wasserman Schultz’s home. There were instead recovered from the Marine above when he found them in Aran’s former home, which he was now renting.
A real Washington scandal: The FBI on Tuesday arrested a former Congressional IT staffer as he was trying to flee the country.
The man, Imran Aran, had run the computer systems for many Democrats in Congress, including former DNC head Debbie Wasserman Schultz. And while most Democrats fired Aran when he came under investigation months ago, Wasserman Schultz had kept in on her payroll until his arrest this week.
Several details that give some important political context to this story, and are not mentioned in the CNN article above:
- Wasserman Schultz tried to use her position to get one of her laptops used by Aran back from DC police, even though it was evidence in a possible crime.
- The FBI had seized computer hard drives from Aran’s former
Wasserman Schultz’shome that had been smashed by a hammer. - Aran is also accused of threatening his stepmother if she cooperated with authorities in the investigation.
- The arrest happened on Tuesday. CNN, along with all the major media outlets, did not think it important enough to report it until two days later. These mainstream outlets have also never thought any of the earlier stories above were worth reporting.
The last story above includes other details about how Aran also threatened the renter of his home for cooperating with police. As the renter (a Marine and apparently a Democrat) noted, “He’s dangerous. This is a crime syndicate that has successfully infiltrated Congress,” he said. “If Donald Trump and the Republicans had hired foreign nationals to be their top IT guys and somehow their congressional files had been compromised, this would have been all over the news.”
Update: The correction above is because the news article linked to had mistakenly said that the hard drives were taken from Wasserman Schultz’s home. There were instead recovered from the Marine above when he found them in Aran’s former home, which he was now renting.