Looks like the judge fell for it, since he authorized bail:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/judge-grants-bail-d-c-211511868.html

Anonymous wrote:Hahahahahahaha

Wait, what? They spent hundreds of thousands of dollars paying for apartments, vehicles, LEO gear and weapons "becuz we just want wuv"

Hahahahahahaha

What everyone living in Washington should know, if they didn't know already, is that Department of Homeland Security and its " constituent agencies" :

Does all this sound like they are " making America safe " Safe from what / whom exactly ?

The department has been dogged by persistent criticism over excessive bureaucracy, waste, ineffectiveness and lack of transparency. Congress estimates that the department has wasted roughly $15 billion in failed contracts (as of September 2008).[59] In 2003, the department came under fire after the media revealed that Laura Callahan, Deputy Chief Information Officer at DHS with responsibilities for sensitive national security databases, had obtained her bachelor, masters, and doctorate computer science degrees through Hamilton University, a diploma mill in a small town in Wyoming.[60] The department was blamed for up to $2 billion of waste and fraud after audits by the Government Accountability Office revealed widespread misuse of government credit cards by DHS employees, with purchases including beer brewing kits, $70,000 of plastic dog booties that were later deemed unusable, boats purchased at double the retail price (many of which later could not be found), and iPods ostensibly for use in "data storage".[61][62][63][64]

A 2015 inspection of IT infrastructure found that the department was running over a hundred computer systems whose owners were unknown, including Secret and Top Secret databases, many with out of date security or weak passwords. Basic security reviews were absent, and the department had apparently made deliberate attempts to delay publication of information about the flaws.[65]

Data mining
On September 5, 2007, the Associated Press reported that the DHS had scrapped an anti-terrorism data mining tool called ADVISE (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight and Semantic Enhancement) after the agency's internal inspector general found that pilot testing of the system had been performed using data on real people without required privacy safeguards in place.[66][67] The system, in development at Lawrence Livermore and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory since 2003, has cost the agency $42 million to date. Controversy over the program is not new; in March 2007, the Government Accountability Office stated that "the ADVISE tool could misidentify or erroneously associate an individual with undesirable activity such as fraud, crime or terrorism." Homeland Security's Inspector General later said that ADVISE was poorly planned, time-consuming for analysts to use, and lacked adequate justifications.[68]

Fusion centers
Main article: Fusion center
Fusion centers are terrorism prevention and response centers, many of which were created under a joint project between the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs between 2003 and 2007. The fusion centers gather information from government sources as well as their partners in the private sector.[69][70]

They are designed to promote information sharing at the federal level between agencies such as the CIA, FBI, Department of Justice, U.S. military and state and local level government. As of July 2009, DHS recognized at least seventy-two fusion centers.[71] Fusion centers may also be affiliated with an Emergency Operations Center that responds in the event of a disaster.

There are a number of documented criticisms of fusion centers, including relative ineffectiveness at counterterrorism activities, the potential to be used for secondary purposes unrelated to counterterrorism, and their links to violations of civil liberties of American citizens and others.[72]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know everyone makes fun of USA Today but this is a good summary of what we (don’t) know so far. They couldn’t even finish the detention hearing today and they needed a box truck to hold all the evidence.

To the people who are asking, " wait, we thought the Department of Homeland Security" was created to protect America... how could THIS happen ?"

What you should be demanding - instead of being distracted by these two Cons- is HOW poorly DHS and USSS vet/ background check their Hires because these two fanboy wanna be " Special Agents" fooled 5 - count that FIVE federal USSS/ DHS employees, listed but not named in the indictment

What America should care about is the WHOLE hiring/ vetting process at DHS, not just this wake up incident

For example, I know of one DHS hire in 2011 ish who was hired and given a security clearance despite the following in her background/ DAILY associations:

This Department of Homeland Security employee moved to DC from Oregon where her mother had been convicted for 1st degree Armed Robbery, Assault, Forgery, check Fraud and Heroin Possession - this contact lives with the ACTIVE DHS employee currently and has Daily contact with her

And Her father convicted of : armed robbery, tax evasion, heroin possession

This DHS Employee went onto - wholly unsupervised by Department of Homeland Security- stalk an American family at the behest of a Yemeni foreign national

There is no " security" engendered by this agency who will obviously hire and retain almost any sociopath

Oh the vetting process and how DHS and USSS missed this blaring, screaming craziness as well as taking gifts from it is a big part of this story. I know I implied that when I praised the USPIS investigators.

And, re the bolded - can the poster or posters who keep mentioning this add a link?

Anonymous wrote:I know everyone makes fun of USA Today but this is a good summary of what we (don’t) know so far. They couldn’t even finish the detention hearing today and they needed a box truck to hold all the evidence.

To the people who are asking, " wait, we thought the Department of Homeland Security" was created to protect America... how could THIS happen ?"

What you should be demanding - instead of being distracted by these two Cons- is HOW poorly DHS and USSS vet/ background check their Hires because these two fanboy wanna be " Special Agents" fooled 5 - count that FIVE federal USSS/ DHS employees, listed but not named in the indictment

What America should care about is the WHOLE hiring/ vetting process at DHS, not just this wake up incident

For example, I know of one DHS hire in 2011 ish who was hired and given a security clearance despite the following in her background/ DAILY associations:

This Department of Homeland Security employee moved to DC from Oregon where her mother had been convicted for 1st degree Armed Robbery, Assault, Forgery, check Fraud and Heroin Possession - this contact lives with the ACTIVE DHS employee currently and has Daily contact with her

And Her father convicted of : armed robbery, tax evasion, heroin possession


This DHS Employee went onto - wholly unsupervised by Department of Homeland Security- stalk an American family at the behest of a Yemeni foreign national

There is no " security" engendered by this agency who will obviously hire and retain almost any sociopath

Anonymous wrote:According to the WaPo article this am, the one guy was responsible for the death of a 17 year old in his home state.
Trying to find more details.

Oh I see it was a car crash.

According to the WaPo article this am, the one guy was responsible for the death of a 17 year old in his home state.
Trying to find more details.

Who knows the extent of their crimes?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This article has crazy details.

First, they fooled the MPD and US Capitol Police in early 2021 with phony law enforcement IDs:

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.

Then Tishman-Speyer - believing they were legit law enforcement - gave them full access to the building's security systems and resident PII:

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

Tishman Speyer gonna have a huge lawsuit coming from the other residents who weren’t involved in this.

Here’s another photo of the FBI raid yesterday - YIKES.

Why? What did the building do that was wrong?

They gave two knuckleheads the personal information of all residents as well as access to their rooms without a warrant or court order.

You do nit know what the build management gave them vs what they took(hacking, etc).

Read the article. They didn't hack anything they just flashed fake badges.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This article has crazy details.

First, they fooled the MPD and US Capitol Police in early 2021 with phony law enforcement IDs:

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.

Then Tishman-Speyer - believing they were legit law enforcement - gave them full access to the building's security systems and resident PII:

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

Tishman Speyer gonna have a huge lawsuit coming from the other residents who weren’t involved in this.

Here’s another photo of the FBI raid yesterday - YIKES.

Why? What did the building do that was wrong?

They gave two knuckleheads the personal information of all residents as well as access to their rooms without a warrant or court order.

You do nit know what the build management gave them vs what they took(hacking, etc).

The reports say they were given the info by the building management.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This article has crazy details.

First, they fooled the MPD and US Capitol Police in early 2021 with phony law enforcement IDs:

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.

Then Tishman-Speyer - believing they were legit law enforcement - gave them full access to the building's security systems and resident PII:

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

Tishman Speyer gonna have a huge lawsuit coming from the other residents who weren’t involved in this.

Here’s another photo of the FBI raid yesterday - YIKES.

Why? What did the building do that was wrong?

They gave two knuckleheads the personal information of all residents as well as access to their rooms without a warrant or court order.

You do nit know what the build management gave them vs what they took(hacking, etc).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah, I don't understand how these guys were NOT paying rent on the units. Tishman-Speyer just wouldn't give these guys free apartments without formal payment arrangements with the USG. It doesn't happen like that.

So someone within Tishman-Speyer was likely in on the scheme, either working with these guys directly or getting paid to look the other way. The leasing office would try to rent these units out, unless told by someone at TS central offices that they were not to be leased.

This goes a lot higher than just inept security guards at the apartment development.

and especially Penthouse units with special access to pools according to one of the articles.

Um... There's been an eviction moratorium remember

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This article has crazy details.

First, they fooled the MPD and US Capitol Police in early 2021 with phony law enforcement IDs:

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.

Then Tishman-Speyer - believing they were legit law enforcement - gave them full access to the building's security systems and resident PII:

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

Tishman Speyer gonna have a huge lawsuit coming from the other residents who weren’t involved in this.

Here’s another photo of the FBI raid yesterday - YIKES.

Why? What did the building do that was wrong?

They gave two knuckleheads the personal information of all residents as well as access to their rooms without a warrant or court order.

WTF! They would be settling some lawsuits. I wonder what creative ways their lawyers would try to save their ass.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This article has crazy details.

First, they fooled the MPD and US Capitol Police in early 2021 with phony law enforcement IDs:

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.

Then Tishman-Speyer - believing they were legit law enforcement - gave them full access to the building's security systems and resident PII:

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

Tishman Speyer gonna have a huge lawsuit coming from the other residents who weren’t involved in this.

Here’s another photo of the FBI raid yesterday - YIKES.

Why? What did the building do that was wrong?

They gave two knuckleheads the personal information of all residents as well as access to their rooms without a warrant or court order.