[ April 24, 2024 ]
The Obama administration — rotten to the core.
Obama-era DHS official indicted for identity theft, fraud
A man who worked as acting inspector general in President Barack Obama’s U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was indicted along with a subordinate Friday over a plot to steal government databases and records and use them for his own private business, according to a Justice Department press release.
By: Conservative Institute, March 8, 2020:
Story continues below advertisementCharles Edwards was acting inspector general (IG) at the DHS from 2011 to 2013. He and subordinate Murali Yamazula Venkata are facing conspiracy to commit theft of government property and to defraud the United States, theft of government property, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft charges, the release noted.
Venkata is also charged with destruction of records in the six-count indictment, which spans the time period between October 2014 and April 2017, the release stated. Others were also involved in the scheme, the release said.
Although Edwards left the DHS in 2013, he allegedly used connections with Venkata and others there to steal software and databases containing 250,000 employee records, The Washington Post reported. Edwards’ company, Delta Business Solutions, then allegedly used the software as a model to make an enhanced version that it tried to sell to the inspector general’s office at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Millions of dollars
The databases that were stolen had a value of $3.1 million and also contained sensitive data, The Washington Post reported.
The investigation has been ongoing by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Post Office, which had some of its employee records stolen by Edwards.
After stealing the information and materials, Edwards gave it to software developers in India that he hired to make a commercial version of the software and databases, according to the DOJ’s release.
Oh, the irony
The irony of Edwards’ arrest is particularly glaring since he was responsible, as acting IG, for oversight of the DHS including waste, fraud, and abuse, according to Reuters.
Turns out, he was the one committing the fraud and abuse that he was supposed to be policing.
According to Forbes, Edwards was a career official in Washington for 20 years and resigned when Senate investigators began to ask questions about his activities.
A Senate oversight panel found in 2014 that he had abused his power in the DHS and maintained inappropriate relationships with colleagues after his departure, Forbes said. Some of this information came from whistleblower allegations against Edwards.
Apparently, however, no action was taken by the panel or others in Congress to prevent further alleged criminal activity by Edwards.
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38 Comments
4 years ago
“Charles Edwards”, I see. Fun fact: Pakistanis camouflage themselves in “wonderland” America with “quintessential English names” to hide their nefarious behaviour.
4 years ago
Reply to
Nori
4 years ago
Reply to
Nori
Robber Hotzenplotz mutated to Robber Fotzenglotz.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robber_Hotzenplotz
Too obcene to translate.
https://dict.cc/deutsch-englisch/Fotze.html
https://dict.cc/deen/?s=glotzen
Conditions in the age of total Islamisation have long since ceased to have anything to do with “satire”. Bitterly evil serious. https://www.eine-zeitung.net/2019/01/10/karin-engelbart-gestorben/
4 years ago
Reply to
Nori
Hillary & the dems have been their inspiration
And the jihadi from pak did same thing and sold it to pak army and he got away with noi charge !~
4 years ago
Reply to
Suresh
….because he was also smart enough to steal secret information from the DNC and Killary….if we’re talking about the same guy and several of his family members….they refused to let Feds look at their computers….tells you all you need to know.
4 years ago
Reply to
Nori
How did you learn that?
I could see that he was probably Pakistani but each attempt to look up this man and his background and original name was met with a goose egg.
4 years ago
Reply to
CreoleGumbo
Interesting. It struck me right away: “Where did this man come from?” I always got an A in geography. I can draw almost any country in the world from memory. I know language, religion, population density. There are geography ads that I can beat. I know currency, history, flag. Probably it was my stepfather (star sign Aquarius) who answered all my questions.
4 years ago
Reply to
Nori
What I asked him, he knew the answer. Whether it was about the Incas or Aborigines.
My mother (Gemini) was responsible for the language. “What is this word?” she corrected me on the spot.
My parents placed a great deal of importance on my education.
My mother is almost 80 years old, multiple national champion in Scrabble.
I often had to mediate between them: “Listen to your son, he’s right!” I had to become a Solomon-like diplomat too.
4 years ago
Reply to
Nori
My mother projected her image of a man onto me. He must be strong-willed, and full of wit and humor. There were no taboos. My girlfriends were always my mother’s best friends too, yes, they knew: “This mother has an excellent son!”
4 years ago
Reply to
Nori
Our child danced before us. His mother and I looked at each other, “That’s our child!” Genius like us. Later, I learned to curb my pride. I am something special. It’s to benefit all those who suffer.
4 years ago
Reply to
Nori
Once my mother is drunk, I carry her to her bed on my strong arms like a lover. I’m not entitled to blame her, she gave birth to me. She has done everything to make me understand the world as she sees it.
4 years ago
Reply to
Nori
Then you have aider and abetters such as wasserman schultz – who is STILL in office – The pakistani she aided and abetted even after he was exposed was caught as he was trying to flee the country – Talk about needing to register as a foreign agent –
4 years ago
Is he in jail? No? Call me when he is…
4 years ago
Yeah there ya go….wait his defense will be that he wasn’t stealing…he was only borrowing.
Like the Clinton foundation and the Uraniam One money – they will claim it’s not their money. It’s only a loan.
4 years ago
Did any of this get out in mainstream media?
4 years ago
Since the threshold between misdemeanor and a felony is only $1,500, this goes well beyond the seriousness of popping hubcaps.
One of the qualifications to work in the Halfrican’s failed administration was to have corruption as a recessive genetic trait.
4 years ago
But….but….but Barry said there wasn’t even a smidgeon of corruption in his administration….
4 years ago
I got the impression that fishy Obama’s Grey Eminence was in fact his opalescent “wife” Michelle…
4 years ago
huh…obama’s I.G.
“no scandel not a hint”
and the V.P. was …who???
oh yea ….joe biden!!!
BIDEN 2020
continuing OBAMA’S legacy
4 years ago
Hopefully, just the tip of the iceberg and he will implicate others higher up in return for leniency.
4 years ago
He was perfect for the job: “It takes a thief to catch a thief.” The only question is, did he catch any thieves or was he just a thief?
4 years ago
The big story here shouldn’t be Obama’s former employee, but Trump’s current one. After searching the web for a bit, to find out exactly who in the Trump Administration was leaking info to Charles Edwards it just dead ends. Although it appears that the article leans towards this person maybe being Murali Yamazula Venkata, I can’t find confirmation as to who Venkata is, other than a former subordinate of Edwards. The attempt to keep ties to the current administration hidden, are truly telling.
4 years ago
Does it surprise anyone as to the moral corruption that exists in a Lieberal Demoncrat. These communist/fascists are nothing more than criminals dressed in fancy suits and skirts
4 years ago
Reply to
joc22
…and lots of protection and special privileges paid for by us…..that we don’t have…
4 years ago
Don’t be fooled, there are scores of thieves in both parties and we are all the suckers!
4 years ago
Hang them both from a tree on the south lawn of the White House, let’s send a message.
4 years ago
OH, FREAKING WOW!!!
Let’s see….so this East Indian was robbing the DHS right under their noses of their most precious asset..their employees’ information….at the very same time that the Pakistani (forget his name) was robbing the DNC and Debbie Wassermann Schultz was being robbed of the DNC records and files….and his relatives who escaped.
Now imagine that the Democrats are trying to get control of the Presidency and all of America and her treasures……who robs them then? Russia, China, maybe Iran?
4 years ago
Fake news as the POS anti-American muslim and his bitch boy biden claim that their administration was crime and criminal free!!!!! Of course anyone with a functioning brain cell knows that the muslim ran the most criminal administration in US history and ubumer won the worse US President of all time by beating out the peanut farmer.
4 years ago
4 years ago
Who in the “O’Biden Bama” Administration wasn’t corrupt?
4 years ago
We all know there is corruption for the past 150 years if not longer. I guess I have been naive at the depth and widespread corruption in place. This level of corruption is going to break us. No wonder the “establishment” is going bonkers to oust Trump among others. I saw that liar and cheat Schumer the smuck saying Trump is incompetent in handling the current coronavirus thing. What the hell has Trump go to do with it? All they are wanting is more and more money to spread around to their friends. To buy another vote with our money. Gun show this weekend.
3 years ago
President Trump really needs to go through all of the obama hold-overs with a fine toothed comb, get rid of them.
Put them under the hot lights, inject them with something, anything that’ll make them sing like birds.
Do whatever it takes, and then either imprison them or just deport them…….then LOCK THE DOORS!
Do NOT grant anymore entrance/immigrate into the US of A…….period.
I’ll never understand how Americans voted for bho the first time, but he 2nd time…….that was just utter stupidity! These ‘Ms’ need to be seen for who/what they are, and that is NO FRIEND to the United States! They follow their ‘book’ — are he11bent on the destruction and conquering of the entire West. People need to wake up.
