Mystery: Why did two men posing as federal agents give gifts to the Secret Service?

[excalibur]

Is there any part of the Federal Government that isn't broken, isn't a fucking mess?

We need to cut it down to size before it consumes us, and time is running out.

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News broke yesterday that the feds had busted two men in D.C. for impersonating federal agents, but the impersonation was the least interesting detail in the affidavit. The two had spent more than two years living in a luxury apartment building in the capital that’s popular with employees of the FBI, Secret Service, Pentagon, and Navy. They befriended their neighbors in the building — especially the Secret Service — and gave them gifts. And by “gifts,” I don’t mean Secret Santa stuff.​

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Where’d they get the money to be this generous?​

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The two men — Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36 — were taken into custody as more than a dozen FBI agents charged into a luxury apartment building in Southeast Washington on Wednesday evening…

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Taherzadeh is accused of providing Secret Service officers and agents with rent-free apartments — including a penthouse worth over $40,000 a year — along with iPhones, surveillance systems, a drone, flat screen television, a generator, gun case and other policing tools, according to court documents.

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He also offered to let them use a black GMC SUV that he identified as an “official government vehicle,” prosecutors say. In one instance, Taherzadeh offered to purchase a $2,000 assault rifle for a Secret Service agent who is assigned to protect the first lady.

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They told their neighbors that they worked for DHS as part of a task force investigating the insurrection, and even reportedly drove black SUVs with emergency lights. Somehow, these humble public servants were also “living out of several luxury units,” per the affidavit. Residents told the FBI that Taherzadeh seemed to have the building heavily surveilled and assured his neighbors that he was the “go-to guy” there.​

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Evidently this went on for two years, with no one alerting the feds that something seemed amiss until recently. According to the affidavit, the scheme was exposed only last month when an inspector from the U.S. Postal Service was sent to the building to investigate an alleged assault on a mail carrier. When he spoke to Taherzadeh and Ali, they told him they were members of DHS’s “U.S. Special Police Investigation Unit,” an agency that … doesn’t exist. The inspector notified DHS, which led to last night’s raid.​

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Let me repeat: It took a postal inspector to expose what appears to all the world to have been an espionage operation, if not something worse, happening right under the noses of members of the Secret Service, FBI, and military. Four Secret Service agents have been placed on leave while the investigation proceeds.​

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What’s going on?​

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Mystery: Why did two men posing as federal agents give gifts to the Secret Service?

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[miketx]

time is running out.

too late

 

[lg325]

Reform is needed badly all through government. Only when regular citizens in mass demand reform will it happen. It needs to happen soon and I hope in a peaceful way. The above news story is an example of how incompetent it has become.

 

[StashMan]

I foresee some heavy water boarding on the horizon.

 

[Manonthestreet]

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[Damaged Eagle]

Too late

*****SMILE*****

 

[scruffy]

Rich Iranians buying gifts for Secret Service agents?

What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Lesh]

This is not an indictment of "the government".

It is a very strange story though

 

[Dekster]

It is a very strange story though

Not really. Befriend people with information. You would be amazed at some people can let slip without even knowing it just in the course of casual conversation about something otherwise random.

 

[Sandisk]

Why would I care?

 

[Lesh]

Not really. Befriend people with information. You would be amazed at some people can let slip without even knowing it just in the course of casual conversation about something otherwise random.

Who ever did this went to a lot of trouble and expense. It would be interesting to see who financed it and what they were expecting to gain

 

[Dekster]

Who ever did this went to a lot of trouble and expense. It would be interesting to see who financed it and what they were expecting to gain

They'll sort it out and we will probably never hear the real details. Could just be generic spies gathering anything they could to pass along to some foreign intelligence agency or could have been something more akin to a specific plot. From what I have read and heard over the years, this technique isn't far astray from what the CIA does--find sources who can be farmed who are not cloak and dagger people. They are just people who do day to day jobs around the periphery of power who are willing to pass along information.

 

[Missourian]

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We're just lucky the Postal Inspector wasn't replaced with a dude in a dress that we're supposed to address as Ma'am or Admiral.

 

[Doc7505]

Secret Service agents in Biden detail reportedly part of bribery scheme​

Secret Service agents in Biden detail reportedly part of bribery scheme

At least four Secret Service members were compromised by alleged conspirators Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali, according to a Friday filing by federal prosecutors.

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8 Apr 2022 ~~ By Steven Nelson

Secret Service agents assigned to the security details for President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris are involved in a bizarre bribery and infiltration scheme operated by a pair of phony federal agents, according to a new report.
At least four Secret Service members were compromised by alleged conspirators Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali, according to a Friday filing by federal prosecutors. The feds say Ali boasted of links to Pakistan’s powerful Inter-Services Intelligence spy agency and his passport indicated recent trips to Iran and Pakistan.
Prosecutors say one compromised Secret Service agent was assigned to first lady Jill Biden’s security detail. RealClearPolitics reported Friday that members of the president and Harris’ details were also implicated.
Secret Service agents typically rotate through different details over time and it’s unclear whom the agents were assigned to protect when FBI agents raided a Southeast DC apartment building late Wednesday and arrested Taherzadeh and Ali.
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A court filing made public Wednesday said Taherzadeh “provided members of the United States Secret Service (USSS) and an employee of DHS with, among other things, rent-free apartments … iPhones, surveillance systems, a drone, a flat-screen television, a case for storing an assault rifle, a generator, and law enforcement paraphernalia.”
The alleged conspirators also “offered these individuals use of what Taherzadeh represented to be ‘official government vehicles'” and allegedly “offered to purchase a $2,000 assault rifle for a United Secret Service Agent assigned to the First Lady’s protective detail.”
The four Secret Service agents are currently on leave, prosecutors say.
The stunning plot was detected by chance when someone assaulted a mail carrier and building residents told a US postal inspector they should consult with Taherzadeh and Ali. The postal inspector grew suspicious and informed the DHS Inspector General’s Office, which in turn alerted the FBI.

See Also: PICTURED: Firearms and visas found in 'fake' DHS agents' DC apartment

Commentary:
Hmm...., I wonder how they got into America? Was it through our Southern border?
Good thing the adults are back in the White House huh?
It's also great to see that our Secret Service folks are gullible doofuses.
The really weird and wild part of this is that they were only caught by accident because something happened to a mail carrier in that complex
I admit I know nothing about this, but Taherzadeh sure looks like an Iranian/Farsi name based on the transliteration used.
Seems the Pakistani ISI strikes again.
Remember: Pakistani Democrat IT Aides ‘Unauthorized Access’ to Congressional Office Servers
Presumably Pakistan is is an ally of America and receives billions in aide, yet they act like belligerents allying themselves with ISIS, Iran and the Taliban.
Something is being left out of the story as usual.

 

[Doc7505]

Who ever did this went to a lot of trouble and expense. It would be interesting to see who financed it and what they were expecting to gain

First suspect is Pakistan's ISI.

 

[scruffy]

Why would I care?

Go back to sleep.

 

[Doc7505]

Here's another story that the Progressive Maoist Democrat Commies will attempt to bury, because this like other National Security problems have been left unchecked and are placing the nation in jeopardy.

 

[Seymour Flops]

This is like a comedy movie.

How could those Secret Service agents have been so gullible?

 

[Whodatsaywhodat.]

This is like a comedy movie.

How could those Secret Service agents have been so gullible?

Christ , they followed Obama and Biden around for years ... watch criminals in action making billions . Learn how to play the game .