Men posing as federal law enforcement agents had arsenal, prosecutors say
“The Defendants were not merely playing dress-up,” according to a memorandum filed in U.S. District Court in D.C. that alleged the men “engaged in conduct that represented a serious threat to the community, compromised the operations of a federal law enforcement agency, and created a potential risk to national security.”
FBI agents raided the Crossing apartment complex in the District’s Navy Yard neighborhood Wednesday, searching five properties allegedly leased by the men on three floors and a penthouse. Authorities say that the men lavished gifts upon members of the Secret Service — including rent-free apartments that would cost $40,000 a year, iPhones, surveillance systems, a drone, a flat-screen TV and a generator — and that it was not entirely clear what, if anything, they wanted in return.
“We have never suggested he [Ali] got funds from anybody in Iran, nor ever suggested he got funds from Pakistan,” Rothstein said Friday. “We have not even credited his statement [of ties to ISI]. But we do have to take his statement seriously, if he claimed to an individual he has a connection to a foreign intelligence service.”U.S. Magistrate Judge G.
The men “created false and fraudulent identities for purposes of signing documents, including the apartment leases,” the detention memo states. Rothstein said residents at the Crossing, many of them members of law enforcement agencies themselves, “believed there was a DHS operation in the building, and that’s what allowed them to have five apartments. That is how deep their plan ran, and how seriously and committed they were to it.”
Some residents had expressed concern that the men had gained access to personal details of tenants; the court papers say authorities did find a binder containing a list of residents, apartment numbers and contact information. The detention memo says Taherzadeh told authorities that Ali “had obtained the electronic access codes and a list of all of the tenants in the apartment complex.”
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