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Secret Service Agents Get Bamboozled By Scammers Posing as Feds (10/27/25)

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Federal agents arrested two men, identified as Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali, who allegedly posed as agents with the Department of Homeland Security’s investigative arm, Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). They are accused of conducting a wide-ranging scheme over more than two years in Washington, D.C., where they purported to investigate serious crimes while using fake federal credentials, badges, and uniforms. According to court filings, the defendants ingratiated themselves with actual federal officers, staged control over a luxury apartment building housing real Secret Service agents, and created a façade of law-enforcement legitimacy to further their operation.

While the charges mark what the FBI described as a serious breach of trust, the case also raises bigger questions about how these individuals managed to operate undetected for so long and what motives were driving them. Some observers note the possibility of foreign intelligence entanglement or deeper criminal enterprise lurking behind the charade, though no public evidence has definitively linked the arrests to a foreign-influence operation. The scale of the impersonation—complete with tactical gear, surveillance equipment, and recruitment of unsuspecting officers—suggests more than simple costume crime. The revelations have left investigators—and the public—with lingering concerns about oversight failures and vulnerabilities in U.S. counterintelligence infrastructure.


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