Four Secret Service officials have been suspended after they were allegedly duped by two men who were accused of posing as officers and employees of the federal government.
who were accused of posing as officers and employees of the federal government.
One of the agents was on the Secret Service detail for first lady Jill Biden. Another is a uniformed division officer at the White House. The third is detailed as a uniformed division officer at Vice President Kamala Harris' residence at the U.S. Naval Observatory. And a fourth was assigned to the presidential protection detail — that is, this officer is one of the federal agents charged with protecting the safety of the sitting president, first family and vice president.
Prosecutors asked Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey late Friday to detain the pair pending trial, alleging the evidence gathered from the five apartments raided earlier this week showed the two posed a "serious danger," that Ali was a flight risk, and Zaherzadeh may try to destroy evidence. Paraphernalia found in FBI raid of men alleged to be posing as federal agents. / Credit: Government exhibit
"With respect to Ali, Taherzadeh stated that Ali had obtained the electronic access codes and a list of all of the tenants in the apartment complex. Taherzadeh further stated that Ali was the individual that funded most of their day-to-day operation but Taherzadeh did not know the source of the funds," the court filing explains.
Lavish gifts given by the suspects to USSS employees — which included iPhones, TVs, apartments and an assault rifle — were not presented as bribes, but were portrayed to USSS officials as "gifts," according to sources familiar with the audit. In transferring them to the Secret Service employees, the suspects claimed that the equipment was surplus from previous federal cases.
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