Former DNC chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., appears to have planned to continue paying IT aide Imran Awan even after he planned to flee to Pakistan.

This twist is the latest development in an astonishing tale of Wasserman Schultz’s continued negligence involving her former IT aide, who was known to have breached sensitive House Intelligence Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee servers, as well as having unfettered access to the computers, files, and emails belonging to dozens of members of Congress.