# Four Secret Service employees placed on leave for accepting gifts from men posing as federal agents **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 7, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-secret-service-employees-placed-on-leave-for-accepting-gifts-from-men-posing-as-federal-agents/962451 "2022-04-07T12:56:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-secret-service-employees-placed-on-leave-for-accepting-gifts-from-men-posing-as-federal-agents/962451/1 "2022-04-07T12:56:00Z")
This sounds like a wild story. I wonder what these guys were hoping to achieve? > **[US: 2 posed as agents, gave gifts to Secret Service officers](https://apnews.com/article/us-secret-service-956062f32e02854112b7c52794d202b2)** > > WASHINGTON (AP) — 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. Prosecutors said four Secret Service employees were placed on leave earlier this week as part of the investigation. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-secret-service-employees-placed-on-leave-for-accepting-gifts-from-men-posing-as-federal-agents/962451/2 "2022-04-07T15:44:08Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > I wonder what these guys were hoping to achieve? This part seems very relevant “Prosecutors say the men had also set up surveillance in the building and had been telling residents there that they could access any of their cellphones at any time. The residents also told investigators they believed the men had access to their personal information.” Seems they wanted the inside scoop on movements and communications of Secret Service employees. Disturbing and scary. And what were the Secret Service agents thinking ?! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2022, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-secret-service-employees-placed-on-leave-for-accepting-gifts-from-men-posing-as-federal-agents/962451/3 "2022-04-07T15:51:00Z")
With the Secret Service, the first thing you think of is Presidential security and that makes it look like this was an assassination plot. But the Secret Service also investigates other crimes. Maybe these were counterfeiters trying to bribe their way out of an investigation. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-secret-service-employees-placed-on-leave-for-accepting-gifts-from-men-posing-as-federal-agents/962451/4 "2022-04-08T06:35:05Z")
There’s already a lengthier thread on this over in IMHO. > [@What's the SD on the duo arrested in DC yesterday?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-sd-on-the-duo-arrested-in-dc-yesterday/962493): > > So the facts are fairly obvious. Two people were arrested for impersonating federal agents: Haider Ali, 35, and Arian Taherzadeh, 40, were arrested on Wednesday in a dramatic FBI raid of a D.C. Navy Yard luxury apartment complex on charges of impersonating federal officers. . . The Wednesday search, Rothstein said, uncovered “ballistic vests, body armor, gas masks, tactical law enforcement breaching equipment, zip ties, handcuffs, firearms storage cases for large and small arms,” as well a… ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-secret-service-employees-placed-on-leave-for-accepting-gifts-from-men-posing-as-federal-agents/962451/5 "2022-04-08T13:33:46Z")
Sorry, I didn’t see the other thread. ---
**Author:** ![Folly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/folly/32/3219_2.png) [@Folly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Folly)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-secret-service-employees-placed-on-leave-for-accepting-gifts-from-men-posing-as-federal-agents/962451/6 "2022-04-08T13:37:41Z")
> [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](#): > > Sorry, I didn’t see the other thread… Well, yours was first. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/four-secret-service-employees-placed-on-leave-for-accepting-gifts-from-men-posing-as-federal-agents/962451/7 "2022-04-08T13:44:44Z")
Oh, well I guess that does help explain things. 🙂