US: 2 Posed as Agents, Gave Gifts to Secret Service Officers

US: 2 Posed as Agents, Gave Gifts to Secret Service Officers
The affidavit to support the arrest of Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali is photographed on April 6, 2022. Jon Elswick/AP Photo
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WASHINGTON—Federal prosecutors on Wednesday charged two men they say were posing as federal agents, giving free apartments and other gifts to U.S. Secret Service agents, including one who worked on the first lady’s security detail.

The two men—Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 36—were taken into custody as more than a dozen FBI agents charged into a luxury apartment building in Southeast Washington on Wednesday evening.