I think he will probably commit suicide before he testifies.

this is the only answer

"Awan was shot in the back of the head today, just two days prior to his testimony in what the Police Department is calling, "An obvious suicide""

suicide note left states that "NO FOUL PLAY WHATSOEVER" was involved and that he had decided to take his own life due to health troubles and the fear of a health insurance policy expiring

Rampant speculation, but what if they have eyes on him 24/7 and are using him as bait to catch the "suicide" squad?

We know they won't, but if we know he has to stay in that area 4chan should get to work. Aren't lots of cameras available just by finding their IP address?

I imagine he'll want to make a splash when he does so I'm calling: he tortures himself for a couple hours, breaks his arms and legs, zipties his broken wrists to his broken ankles, shuts himself in a duffel bag, shoots himself twice in the back of the head, then throws himself in a river with his dying lunge.

This

Can someone give a quick cliff note version of the Awan brothers, who they are, what they did, why we should care about their existence?

I have heard them mentioned quite a bit, but never in an any detail.

Here you go...

https://np.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/60l4pu/the_awan_brothers_compromised_at_least_80/

not enough detail huh?

double-billing the US govt and defrauding it of money? yes they treat that pretty seriously

I would have thought he would be a huge flight risk and denied bail. Maybe someone wants to see where he goes and who he calls while on the outside panicking?

the odds of 2 bullets entering the back of his head is going up.

Yes, guess they are playing hardball and using him as bait.

I wonder if he left having made a deal. Just seems very unexpected.

THEY want him, his brothers and their two wives, dead, might be the reason for the release.

Right? I thought the same, and figured they'd have him locked down.

No, people are getting this wrong. A lot of jurisdictions, including D.C., have been moving away from pretrial incarceration and money bail. The court generally can't deny bail for criminal defendants charged with nonviolent offenses; they have to provide a protocol for supervised release. Given the guy's a major flight risk -- they caught him trying to escape -- he'd be slapped with additional conditions to keep tabs on him.

I would have thought he would be a huge flight risk and denied bail.

Well, in general a number of jurisdictions, including D.C., have been reforming their bail procedures. Courts generally can't deny bail completely when the defendant isn't charged with a violent crime.

The GPS monitor and curfew are the additional conditions imposed because he's an obvious flight risk, given that they caught him as he was trying to escape the jurisdiction.

weird. Maybe I watch too much law and order, seems like they deny bail very easily. As this guy is a foreign national, thought it would be a slam dunk.

But your idea about bail reform makes sense.

I just happen to know this stuff because I was working on a project regarding bail reform. It's become a major issue because poor people get fucked -- somebody picked up on a small charge can't pay the $150, they languish in jail and lose their job, can't pay the fine on the initial charge, interest and fees start piling up, etc. etc. -- people end up having their lives entirely derailed for a misdemeanor.

So, a ton of jurisdictions have changed their bail laws to create a presumption of release, with the judges required to impose only those conditions necessary to secure appearance at trial -- especially for non-violent offenders.

very interesting, thank you. It is nice that they are making it more reasonable.

Yeah, it's actually surprising, it's really a shift in thinking over only the last couple years, and often in places you might not expect, like Kentucky.

It's to protect him from being killed by Hilary before he talks

The thing I am most surprised at is the speed with which all these arrangements were made. I have had a lot of interactions with the legal system, this seems strange. In a normal situation, you could bail out, which by itself can take several hours or a day. But he is an obvious flight risk, which means he had to see a judge to make the decision on his conditions for release. That does not usually happen quickly either.

Maybe nothing, but my spidey sense is tingling a bit here.

They said he's wearing GPS and surrendered all of his passports. I dunno we will see.

lots of painful troublesome ways to get him out, and one easy way to.

bang bang ditch-gun.

Fbi better keep their car doors locked.

someone referred to 7/27 as a day of trouble. have you heard anything?

Just WHanon, possibly a smaller event tomorrow, but something big on Thursday.

I used to work in a County level court in a major metropolitan area. This is seems very normal. If the DOJ process is anything like our processes were it would have gone like this: He was arrested and booked yesterday evening/night. He would have been interviewed by a court employee who would then prepare a pre-trial report for the Judge. The pre-trial report would have included a summary of the Defendant (Awan) and a recommendation for a bond amount and any pre-trial supervision conditions (GPS, Curfew, etc). The recommendations are based his offense, criminal history, flight risk factors, etc. The GPS is extremely normal considering Mr. Awan's high potential for flight risk. Along with the GPS monitoring the ISP unit is able to set exclusion zones, in this case, anything outside 50 miles of his home. The Judge ultimately has discretion to go along with the recommendation of the report or do whatever the fuck he/she feels like. The curfew is kind of strange. The curfew sanction was typically used for offenses like prostitution, drug dealing, etc not really bank fraud. The whole thing seems to have moved quite quickly. Unless he started singing as soon as they brought him in and cut a deal but who knows.

Yep, that is exactly how it works. My question was about the time it takes. Sometimes bail takes 24-48hr to get through the system. But, I'm sure my county is not the most efficient, and it has been many moons since I visited their fine establishment.

I am assuming Mr. Awan, as connected as he is was able to just post the cash bond and not go through a surety. It may also be that he was granted a personal recognizance also. Either of those would expedite the release process.

I've done it all 3 ways and it wasn't much faster either way.

My jurisdiction had significant overcrowding issues, may have had something to do with it.

Very likely. Since that time our population has quintupled...could be way different now.

Who paid his bail? I wonder.

Yeah, I wondered that too.

I just read he transferred $300,000 from his office to Pakistan.

They're just telling us how our lives end when Hillary takes over the country from a NZ Bunker.

GPS Monitoring / Employee Chipping memes are 🔥this week.

Also it is a GPS monitor to see if and where he moves anywhere. I do hope that he does not commit suicide. If anything it will be a "suicide". This is huge news.

Huge news, however not reported by ANY mainstream media, if the guy gets killed no one will know anything.

So much for the sting of The Patriot Act...right that only applies to US citizens.

Am I the only one who noticed the date is Aug 21????

It's the solar eclipse. Between Aug 21 and Sept 23, there's a lot of weird biblical prophecies being fulfilled in revelations.

what other than the eclipse?

. He must wear a GPS monitor, abide by a curfew of 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. and cannot leave a 50-mile radius of his Lorton, Va., home.

removes device, hops into car and crosses US/Canadian border on false passport.

yeah right, many rich or connected criminals manage to flee.

the reason bail is denied to person of high value or risk

Thats that whole innocent until proven guilty thing...

Seriously? Due process gets downvotes?

Given the amount of money the guy is capable of moving around and the fact that he looks very average this seems really stupid.

Foolish to use GPS detention systems on hackers.

[Defcon presentation on the topic] http://www.securitytube.net/video/14685?utm_source=HT&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=SM

Also, given the significance of this case he should be in protective custody. The effect of the release seems to include putting him in greater danger.

If he doesn't make it to his hearing I would consider the possibility of foul play.

He'll be dead by morning. Better put a GPS tracker on Hilary and make sure she isn't within 100 miles of him.

He'll be dead in a week!

It's the solar eclipse. Between Aug 21 and Sept 23, there's a lot of weird biblical prophecies being fulfilled in revelations.