“As of right now, I don’t see a smoking gun,” Meeks said. We want to make sure everybody is entitled to due process,” Meeks said at the time. “I wanted to be sure individuals are not being singled out because of their nationalities or their religion. Gregory Meeks terminated Alvi as an employee of his office, because the investigation was disruptive, he told Politico, but said he feared Alvi and her family were being targeted because of their Pakistani Muslim background.
Politico reported in March that Awan was barred from the House IT networks and that the investigation focused on the equipment of 20 lawmakers.īack in March, Rep. “They said it was some sort of procurement scam, but now I’m concerned that they may have stolen data from us, emails, who knows,” a lawmaker told BuzzFeed News at the time.Īccording to LegiStorm, Awan earned $164,600 in 2016, and Alvi earned $168,300.Īlthough several politicians refused to keep employing his four associates after news of the investigation first broke, Awan, who has worked as an IT staffer for House Democrats since 2004, continued to work for Wasserman Schultz's office.
(The five were technically employees of the House, and would work short stints in different members' offices, said Chris Gowen, Awan's attorney.)īuzzFeed News first reported on the criminal investigation, revealing that Awan and his associates had access to the House of Representatives' entire computer network. Back in February, Awan, his wife, Hina Alvi, his brother, and two close friends - were named as the five House staffers being investigated as part of a criminal probe into the theft of IT equipment and possible data theft.
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