rollcall | Rep. Ron DeSantis told “Fox & Friends” Monday said Congress should investigate Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s employment of a man charged with submitting a fraudulent loan application and potentially scamming his House employers.
Asked
if Wasserman Schultz should be forced to testify DeSantis responded, “I
think it's questionable what they were doing during that time,”
referring to Imran Awan and other members of his family. “We would have
to investigate that. Of course, they had access to intelligence and
House Foreign Affairs Committee members’ personal email and IT accounts.
There is some very sensitive information on there. This could be a
significant security breach.”
Around February, unnamed lawmakers
alleged Awan and other family members, who were employed since 2004 by
more than a dozen Democratic lawmakers to provide IT services, were running some kind of scam, the details of which have not been revealed.
Awan’s lawyer and congressional staff described the work as fairly low
level, including setting up computers, phones, and passwords.
Lawmakers
who contracted with Awan cut ties as the investigation went on.
Wasserman Schultz was the last to do so, after Awan was arrested last
week. She said that until the arrest she had been provided “no evidence
to indicate that laws had been broken,” and was concerned about “ethnic
and religious profiling” in the case.
President Donald Trump added
his support to the story, retweeting an article last week accusing
media outlets of “bury[ing]” the “IT scandal engulfing” Wasserman
Schultz’s office.
