Posted on 04/16/2022 9:52:14 AM PDT by bitt
The two men accused of impersonating federal operatives and gifting Secret Service agents rent-free apartments, smartphones, TVs and other items were ordered to home confinement this week after a federal judge ruled they were not a flight risk.
Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Sher-Ali, 35, were released to their families on Wednesday and will remain under house arrest. The two will also be monitored by GPS technology, according to court documents outlining the conditions of their release.
Taherzadeh was spotted by photographers entering his father’s home in Sterling, Va. Wednesday afternoon and waved to the cameras, holding a shopping bag in one hand and several documents in another.
His father, Masoud Taherzadeh, told reporters that “Everything is beautiful, everything is good,” according to the Daily Mail.
“There is nothing else to say now,” he added.
US Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey signed the orders for the two men’s release on Tuesday and called the Department of Justice’s claims that the men were dangerous and compromised national security “overblown,” according to CNN.
Harvey said the government failed to show how “national security information was in fact compromised” through Taherzadeh and Ali’s interactions with Secret Service agents.
The judge noted that there is “no evidence of foreign ties in this case,” as well as no “suggestion that any foreign government that is hostile to the United States” has a connection to the case. see also ‘Now I’m pissed’: Secret Service agents outraged by White House spin over ‘first dog’ bites
Prosecutors have accused Ali of claiming to at least one witness that he had some connection to Pakistani intelligence, while his passport indicated recent trips to Iran and Pakistan.
Taherzadeh and Ali both face charges of impersonation of a law enforcement officer, which carries a maximum penalty of three years in prison.
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Well it’s not like the visited the capital building.
[[The judge noted that there is “no evidence of foreign ties in this case,” as well as no “suggestion that any foreign government that is hostile to the United States” has a connection to the case]]
Gee, they sure determined that quickly, compared to Jan 6 being “ivestigated” for over a year now!
I wonder how many Muslim Jan 6 protestors were Imprisoned and cenied their rights and held without bail? Surely there were some in the crowd.
What is missing “they?” from your post?
We are seeing the corrupting and country damaging effects of a politicized government of leftists and other institutions. We were better off when the commies and those who aligned themselves were actually prosecuted and committed as illegal traitors.
this story is being memory-holed frantically -
That's because they're protecting the four Secret Service agents who took their bribes, and for all we know, there could have been more we're not hearing about. This supposedly went on for approximately two years.
Something smells.
SPJNK.
With names like that, they’re not a flight risk. Bullcrap. They’re a flight risk and having them flee would be the perfect way to avoid more embarrassing revelations about this fiasco.
Your right, they are confined to the White House.
I wonder if those ss dudes were also involved in Jan 6 entrapment too
A rational DOJ would have charged them with espionage, bribery, have IRS agents give them an anal probe over the source of their funds, charged the recipients of the “gifts” with accepting bribes and security violations, the stack of charges should be at least a foot tall.
And ANY foreign nationals with ties to foreign intelligence should be considered a flight risk.
WTF?.
Merrick Garland is a raving liberal lunatic.
“Something smells.”
It sure does. There’s no way random “Federal Agents” would be hanging around Secret Service details without some kind of paper trail authorizing them to be there.
The SS supervisors should be getting waterboarded over this.
They most definitely are working for some group with some pull and influence inside the swamp - Whether foreign or domestic
Merrick Garland is a raving liberal lunatic
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Garlic Wreath is also a national security risk.
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...were released to their families on Wednesday and will remain under house arrest.
If those four weren't, I'm sure there were some other undercover SS there, along with the FBI, and their assets. Until the FBI, and their records are thoroughly purged, I'm sure we'll never know.
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