Anonymous wrote:Iranian agents who were to figure out how to get close enough to someone of value and one day get the order to exact revenge for the assassination of Soleimani. I would bet the bank on that

Remember, both of these guys are American citizens. Ali has a wife and 4 kids, the youngest of whom is a newborn (one month old!).

These guys will squeal. They were spending tons of money on this - who was funding it? My guess is that cryptocurrency is involved.

Also, it sounds like Ali had his own apartment in the building, but no reports of him being seen with wife + kids. So he likely slept elsewhere (NoVA?) with his family.

Lots of layers to peel back here.

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.

Anonymous wrote:Iranian agents who were to figure out how to get close enough to someone of value and one day get the order to exact revenge for the assassination of Soleimani. I would bet the bank on that

+1 I’ve been wondering about that but the threat is to former Trump administration officials like Bolton and Trump’s Iran pointman whose name I forget.

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Anonymous wrote:Won’t the apartment management company get sued by residents for releasing their PII to these fraudsters? How on earth did they get away with not paying rent?

Ha ! A DHS employee gave a 13 year old American child's PII to a Yemeni foreign national and she was not even fired

Can someone point me to an article or a thread here about this craziness?

Iranian agents who were to figure out how to get close enough to someone of value and one day get the order to exact revenge for the assassination of Soleimani. I would bet the bank on that

Anonymous wrote:Won’t the apartment management company get sued by residents for releasing their PII to these fraudsters? How on earth did they get away with not paying rent?

Ha ! A DHS employee gave a 13 year old American child's PII to a Yemeni foreign national and she was not even fired

Anonymous wrote:Won’t the apartment management company get sued by residents for releasing their PII to these fraudsters? How on earth did they get away with not paying rent?

Good lord yes, I mentioned that upthread. Tishman Speyer and Bozzuto are both huge companies, it’s unfathomable that they could let something like this go on.

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In my opinion, the tradecraft on display here right down to the Persian surnames used for offenders smacks of a state actor who would not just want to infiltrate USSS and DHS, BUT be sure that , if caught, cast the shadow on their arch enemy- the Iranians

Answer : Israel and the Mossad

In my opinion, I see a scenario where Tishman was paid in cash and got to devalue the apartment buildings on his tax returns for being " under occupied" to boot.

In other words, just like Trump's play book

Won’t the apartment management company get sued by residents for releasing their PII to these fraudsters? How on earth did they get away with not paying rent?

I would love to know if the USPIS inspector is a man or a woman. I bet it's a woman.

So many male law enforcement officers took these guys' word at face value without so much as a second glance or an ounce of skepticism. Only one DHS employee/witness bothered to search for these guys in their internal database, and even then they accepted their excuse of "we are undercover, so we are not listed in the database."

Anonymous wrote:These guys had many layers of "cover" to make them seem legit. From the arrest affidavit:

While in TAHERZADEH’s primary residence, Witness 3 observed that TAHERZADEH possessed FLETC training certificates and a Private Identity Verification card, commonly referred to as a “PIV card,” which TAHERZADEH uses to access a laptop that is labeled with a “DHS” symbol. Witness 3 stated that he/she saw a federal logon privacy notice when TAHERZADEH logged onto his DHS computer.

Witness 5 recalled that TAHERZADEH had a PIV card, which he believes said DHS on it, and that the background on TAHERZADEH’s computer had “DHS information.” TAHERZADEH showed Witness 5 an HSI badge and special police officer credentials. Witness said that TAHERZADEH identified himself primarily as DHS/HSI, but he carried the special police officer badge on his person more often. Witness 5 has seen DHS/HSI on TAHERZADEH’S ballistic vest as well.

To create phony PIV cards designed to look like that issued by DHS + adding bogus federal government log-in screens to your laptop smells like something state-sponsored. It's a very sophisticated effort - where would you even get this made? They made sure to flash this stuff in front of multiple federal law enforcement that lived in the building to add credibility to their background story. That's really good tradecraft.

These guys were really playing the long con here and doing it well. It seems that they blabbed a bit too much and that's what piqued the curiosity of a skeptical USPIS inspector who followed up on their gut instinct.

DHS failed early on. In the arrest affidavit one of the skeptical DHS employees looked them up in DHS employee databases but couldn't find them. DHS didn't follow up and investigate for some reason. Making a fake PIV and login screen isn't too crazy since this is something you would see on every TSA (DHS) computer screen at the airport. But the DHS.us email address on a business card should have been an instant referral to the IG and security because that is so obviously fake.

The secret service guys were willfully blind about all this in my opinion. You don't get to use an active investigation to live in free apartments and party. It's also very common to look someone up in the internal email system if someone asks you for something related to LEO activities.

These guys had many layers of "cover" to make them seem legit. From the arrest affidavit:

While in TAHERZADEH’s primary residence, Witness 3 observed that TAHERZADEH possessed FLETC training certificates and a Private Identity Verification card, commonly referred to as a “PIV card,” which TAHERZADEH uses to access a laptop that is labeled with a “DHS” symbol. Witness 3 stated that he/she saw a federal logon privacy notice when TAHERZADEH logged onto his DHS computer.

Witness 5 recalled that TAHERZADEH had a PIV card, which he believes said DHS on it, and that the background on TAHERZADEH’s computer had “DHS information.” TAHERZADEH showed Witness 5 an HSI badge and special police officer credentials. Witness said that TAHERZADEH identified himself primarily as DHS/HSI, but he carried the special police officer badge on his person more often. Witness 5 has seen DHS/HSI on TAHERZADEH’S ballistic vest as well.

To create phony PIV cards designed to look like that issued by DHS + adding bogus federal government log-in screens to your laptop smells like something state-sponsored. It's a very sophisticated effort - where would you even get this made? They made sure to flash this stuff in front of multiple federal law enforcement that lived in the building to add credibility to their background story. That's really good tradecraft.

These guys were really playing the long con here and doing it well. It seems that they blabbed a bit too much and that's what piqued the curiosity of a skeptical USPIS inspector who followed up on their gut instinct.

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Anonymous wrote:So if a postman was not assaulted in the building, this would still be going on. This is a total failure of the secret service and the FBI.

The story is not that these guys were impersonating federal law enforcement. The story is the secret service and other law enforcement officers did not think it was wrong or suspicious to receive gifts(bet the “gifts” spread malware) and free rent in penthouse for over 2 years.

I guarantee they set up IMSI Catcher and most likely had control over the officers phones and electronic devices. Very unprofessional.

Any chance they were not caught because they were known to Secret Service and the FBI?

Nope. They were totally in the dark. Secret Service and FBI clueless.

The damage Donald Trump did to our federal law enforcement and national security agencies is incalculable. The intelligence community has bounced back, the State Department is getting there, the FBI is trying (note that the agent who wrote the arrest affidavit just started with the FBI in 2021), but DHS is a disaster.

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Anonymous wrote:So if a postman was not assaulted in the building, this would still be going on. This is a total failure of the secret service and the FBI.

The story is not that these guys were impersonating federal law enforcement. The story is the secret service and other law enforcement officers did not think it was wrong or suspicious to receive gifts(bet the “gifts” spread malware) and free rent in penthouse for over 2 years.

I guarantee they set up IMSI Catcher and most likely had control over the officers phones and electronic devices. Very unprofessional.

Any chance they were not caught because they were known to Secret Service and the FBI?

No way. This was sheer incompetence as well as a disturbing willingness for the public and local LEO to accept whatever they were told just because someone flashed credentials. I mean giving away free luxury apartments and opening up your building surveillance system at the flash of a badge? It's like people forgot about the constitution under Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a much bigger story than seems to be getting coverage for.

That's what I thought about Ginny Thomas encouraging a coup but Clarence is still a justice

Or Trump trying to execute a coup, then eating stolen documents

But this does seem like a very big story!