EXCLUSIVE: New Details Deepen Mystery Of The DC Fed Imposters

[Nevilledog]

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It’s still not certain what the D.C. duo accused of impersonating federal agents was up to, but it’s clear they were anything but discreet.

In ways big and small the two men drew attention to themselves, the kind of unwanted attention that foreign intel operatives and hitmen — just to sample some of the public speculation about the nature of their alleged operation — tend to avoid.

New reporting from TPM and a recently concluded lawsuit in D.C. reveal that the men’s company allegedly never paid rent on the apartments the feds raided last week. Ever. That resulted in a lawsuit by the landlord against the men, which itself offers new details about what the men were up to.

TPM has learned that a company associated with the men wrangled over payment for the units with the landlord almost immediately after the apartments were leased, with no rent allegedly being paid on any of the five apartments after their leases were signed.

The two men — Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali — moved into the building when it was brand new and largely unoccupied, raising the question of whether they would have had any neighbors to target.

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[lagomorph777]

1. This story is going to get bigger and bigger. SS is going to experience a big shakeup.

I hope the Bidens and Harris/Emhoffs are safe.

[Irish_Dem]

3. How many other US agencies need to be checked as well?

[lagomorph777]

5. Any agency that Trump touched.

i.e. ALL of them. Scary shit.

[Irish_Dem]

6. Quite believable he would let foreign agents infiltrate the US govt

If it helped him in any way.

[lagomorph777]

7. He IS a foreign agent, so, yeah.

First week in office he invites Russian spies into the Oval Office for a few yucks and to hand them classified info about Israel and our deepest Kremlin spy.

[SheltieLover]

10. This!👆

[Irish_Dem]

2. So did they want to get caught or poorly trained?

[SheltieLover]

11. Putin likely told them how fkd up our "justice system" is. No need to pay.

[Irish_Dem]

13. Good point. They could do whatever they wanted.

Maybe no consequences or slap on the wrist.

[PoliticAverse]

4. "Follow the money."...

reveal that the men’s company allegedly never paid rent on the apartments the feds raided last week. Ever.

Oops.

[Ray Bruns]

8. This is getting weirder and weirder.

[PoliticAverse]

16. "Reality is stranger than fiction". n/t

[dalton99a]

9. Building management gave them everything they asked - and no one verified their credentials

In early 2021, Metro Police did a search of Taherzadeh's unit when a person from a surrounding apartment building made a call reporting a sighting of firearms in his 3-bedroom corner unit through an open window.

Video footage viewed by DailyMail.com showed members of the Metro Police Department and United States Capitol Police searching Taherzadeh's apartment on the 7th floor. They saw firearms in plain sight that are illegal to own in the District of Columbia, but were provided with credentials that seemed to convince them that Taherzadeh was an agent permitted to own such weapons. ...

According to sources, the Tishman Speyer-owned and operated building cooperated with Taherzadeh and Ali believing the guise that they were federal agents. Building management, the sources allege, provided the duo with access to surveillance cameras, including codes to access all doors in the building and a list of personal information about a number of residents.

A former security guard for the building, however, said that an overnight concierge would call down Ali and Taherzadeh when things happened in the building to show them surveillance footage.

Ali and Taherzadeh provided the all-access door code to several residents, another source confirms.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10696133/How-fake-DHS-agents-spent-18-MONTHS-trying-infiltrate-Secret-Service-Jill-Bidens-detail.html

[blogslug]

12. They moved in Nov. 2020 and didn't pay a dime in rent

They took advantage of the COVID eviction moratorium to the tune of $92,697.80

That is some TFG-level grift right there.

[dclarston13]

14. They moved in just after TFG LOST the election

So their funding probably occurred during TFG's tenure. Just saying.

[dalton99a]

15. Taherzadeh started impersonating "United States Special Police" in January 2019 or earlier

https://cage.report/DUNS/081255376

[lagomorph777]

17. But they never actually paid the rent.

Who does THAT remind you of?