Arian Taherzadeh seen in images submitted in a D.O.J. affidavit.
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The landlord of two Washington, D.C., males charged with impersonating Department of Homeland Security brokers received a judgment for greater than $222,000 in unpaid hire for the 5 residences they lived in and loaned out to U.S. Secret Service brokers, a court docket submitting reveals.
The default judgment towards “United States Special Police,” an organization related to the lads, Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali, was entered in Superior Court in Washington in January.
United States Special Police, which isn’t a regulation enforcement company, had leased the 5 residences at Crossing on First Street since late 2020, in accordance with a lawsuit filed in July by a restricted legal responsibility company owned by Tishman Speyer, the true property large that owns the constructing.
But USSP had not paid any hire throughout that point, the swimsuit says.
And “that they had created a pretend individual to signal the lease,” a federal prosecutor mentioned in court docket Friday, referring to Tazherzadeh and Ali.
A Tishman Speyer spokesman declined to touch upon the case.
The hire case got here to mild as the lads have been resulting from seem at a detention listening to in U.S. District Court in Washington.
Prosecutors have requested a choose to order that the lads be held with out bail.
Ali, 35, and the 40-year-old Taherzadeh have been arrested Wednesday at Crossing on First Street, situated within the Navy Yard space of Southeast Washington.
Federal prosecutors accuse them of impersonating Homeland Security brokers for a number of years, and say the FBI discovered weapons, ammunition, and law-enforcement paraphernalia of their residences, even supposing neither man is employed by regulation enforcement.
A court docket submitting by prosecutors on Friday mentioned, that whereas they have been claiming to be regulation enforcement brokers concerned in covert operations, “they compromised United States Secret Service (USSS) personnel concerned in protecting particulars and with entry to the White House advanced by lavishing presents upon them, together with rent-free dwelling.”
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“Taherzadeh acknowledged that Ali had obtained the digital entry codes and a listing of all the tenants within the condominium advanced,” which has a whole lot of models, the submitting mentioned. Those entry codes permit tenants to enter their residences and the amenity areas, and function elevators within the advanced.
Four Secret Service personnel have been positioned on depart on account of the case.
The Secret Service has not mentioned if these brokers embrace one who had been assigned to first woman Jill Biden’s protecting element.
That agent was recognized in a prison grievance as being supplied an AR-15-style assault rifle valued at $2,000 by Taherzadeh. He lived in an condominium under Taherzadeh in the identical constructing, the grievance mentioned.
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