WND: An ethics complaint has been filed against a Democratic congressman who reportedly paid $60,000 in taxpayer funds to a “ghost employee,” who had been fired from his job at McDonald’s, while the lawmaker’s office allowed a Pakistani-born IT aide to access his servers without authorization.
U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Mo. – a former co-chair of Hillary Clinton’s Missouri campaign and co-chair of her national Faith Steering Committee who delivered a fiery speech praising Clinton at the Democratic National Convention – is accused of paying an unqualified former McDonald’s employee, Rao Abbas, to be his IT aide, according to an ethics complaint filed Wednesday by the ethics watchdog Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust, or FACT.
The organization accuses Cleaver of grossly misusing House resources by giving the funds to Abbas for IT work he never performed – and for allowing Awan, a non-employee who is now facing bank-fraud charges, to perform IT services.
Despite paying Abbas $60,183 from 2013 to 2016, Cleaver has reportedly stated that he doesn’t even know the former fast-food worker. read more
But god forbid some cracker Congressman should sleep in his office. The Congoressional Black Caucus is all over that scandal.
Just like Republicans to discriminate against the living impaired.
Past Lives Matter.
Don’t make me rattle off that loooong list of honest black representatives. I’m warning you, I’ll do it!
Lets see here, there’s ah ah let me get back to you on that.
And ethics violation? Sounds like the CBC is part of obama’s old Keep the Promise policy adopted by Broward County schools.
Cleaver and the crooked beaver.
Only one? There about eighty congresspersons who had the Pakifamily on their payroll, why aren’t they all under fire?
“Ghost Employees” are a pretty standard scam for Members of Congress.
Cleaver’s probably no bigger a thief than 50% of Congressmen in general.
Musta pissed someone off if it’s been brought to the attention of the “Ethics” cover-up committee. Their job is whitewash … er … blackwash … uhh … make allegations disappear.
izlamo delenda est …
I believe the room where Awan ‘serviced the server’ adjoined Xavier Becerra’s office. Speculation is that’s why he high tailed it out of DC, back to the safe environment of CA. He had no explanation why he failed to notice the strange behavior/hours of the Awan spies.