Overview

• Arian Taherzadeh, 41, was sentenced to 33 months in prison for posing as a federal agent to gain favor with U.S. Secret Service and other federal law enforcement officers, and to scam his way into free housing and other benefits in luxury high-rise buildings in Washington.
• Taherzadeh pleaded guilty in August 2022 to a federal conspiracy charge as well as to voyeurism and unlawful possession of a large-capacity ammunition feeding device in a scheme that unfolded over more than three years from late 2018 to April 2022.
• Taherzadeh and his co-conspirator, Haider Ali, 38, operated a business called United States Special Police LLC, falsely claiming it was part of the Department of Homeland Security.
• Taherzadeh provided free use of a vehicle to the wife of an agent in first lady Jill Biden’s detail, and gave an iPhone to another member, which he used to locate the member near the White House.
• Taherzadeh was ordered to pay the apartment owners more than $700,000 in restitution.