Prosecutors are considering leveling additional charges at two men who they accuse of impersonating Department of Homeland Security agents, an assistant U.S. attorney said on Thursday.
Glad you are on this, TPM.
You go, Josh K.
Canāt imagine theyād be released from ādetentionā. One has to wonder if these guys were doing this all on their own to see what might turn up just for fun. However, there was a lot of money involved that came from some place.
This probably isnāt going to go how anyone thinks.
Middle Eastern London, like Greenwich?
eh, London is also kinduva hotbed of Islamic radicalism, you donāt need to travel all the way to Yemen to find groups that want to destroy ____
Itās Foreign Intelligence Service stuff, only question will be exactly which one. Tantalizing hints that Pakistan could be it, but really any guess right now is fair. And standard espionage, just trying to get military and government secrets for the bosses.
What itās not going to turn out to be is that two dudes rented 5 apartments in D.C. and just for funsies went around dropping dollars like that.
Remand during tomorrowās detention hearing seems to be a foregone conclusion. From what I read I donāt know who these two persons are, only that they are not who they claimed to be. If the judge isnāt sure who the defendants are, much less that they have ties to the community, bail seems out of the question.
The two moved into the building just as it was first opening up for rentals. Rothstein said that, having rented five units in the complex, the two set about
Who rents FIVE apartments? And where did the money come from?
So who owns the building?
Definitely good to put no bond hold on them. Keep them out of Metroplitan Detention in NYC, lest they āhave an accident.ā
Seems we were close to this sort of early catch (in San Diego) in the 9/11 case, prior to the event. Then the FBI Fāed it up. Good catch!
If Pakistani, partial ISI revenge for Abbottabad/OBL raid?
Forward thinkers. Rent controls in D.C. limit the annual increases for current renters. So if you have sublet capabilities, you could make a nice chunk of change over time pocketing the difference of what you have to pay and what you could sublet for to a new person.
If they wanted, pakistan could have exacted all the revenge they wanted using proxies in afghanistan.
The Pakistan connection is what one of the defendants told a witness, and also may have been a stamp on a passport. What foreign agent would reveal his true nationality like that? It is firmly established that these two are liars. And a passport stamp from a foreign country is obtained just by visiting that country. Same as for Iran. It would be standard cover for a foreign agent to have confusing information on his passport, even assuming the passport is real.
Probably mossad. Deep cover.
Thank heaven for the U.S. Postal Inspector who realized the extent of this bizarre plot and reported it. This is bonkers (and the Secret Service is clearly rotten to the core)
One more detail from the affidavit supporting the criminal charge. On page 6 paragraph 9 āThe USPIS inspector then interviewed TAHERZADEH and ALI. Both individuals also self-identified as investigators with the U.S. Special Police Investigation Unit (USSP). ALI identified the USSP as part of DHS.ā In fact on page 16 paragraphs 64 USSP is revealed to be a private security company headquartered in DC with TAHERZADEH as the owner. Nothing to do with DHS. So what else has this company been doing and when was it incorporated?
Photo of the perp in the article looks like Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver. "Are you looking at me? I donāt see anyone else around ā¦ are you looking at me?"
Canāt believe thereās nothing at WaPo about this but yet coverage of Tiger Woods golfing. BTW, I didnāt know heād recovered and was back at it.
OT, but further proof that dentists have no souls (vid)ā¦