Prosecutors seek to hold 2 charged with impersonating federal agents without bail | WTOP News

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53% : Charging documents said the two had also provided gifts to Secret Service agents, including the use of rent-free penthouse apartments and more, "in order to ingratiate themselves" with law enforcement, a prosecutor said during Taherzadeh's arraignment Thursday.
52% : Assistant U.S. Attorney Joshua Rothstein said Ali had told witnesses that he was affiliated with the Inter-Services Intelligence agency in Pakistan and that he had multiple visas from Pakistan and Iran in the months before prosecutors believe the men began impersonating U.S. law enforcement officials.
45% : Another witness, who was not a federal law enforcement official, told prosecutors that Taherzadeh recruited them to join DHS, saying he had the power to hire them.
34% : Federal prosecutors are looking to hold the two men accused of impersonating federal agents in D.C. without bail, saying one of them had ties to Pakistani intelligence and visas from Pakistan and Iran.

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