Arguments from defense attorneys shed new light on a case that accuses two men of cozying up to Secret Service agents.
The memos filed by the lawyers of Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 35, came before the men appeared in courtProsecutors, who have said they could add a charge of conspiracy, argued that the pair created “a potential risk to national security” and ought to be jailed pending trial. Defense attorneys, on the other hand, contended that prosecutors “have jumped to the wildest conspiracy theories possible over the most scant of evidence.
the FBI searched a luxury apartment building in the Navy Yard area and found a stash of police weapons, access codes to federal agents’ homes and equipment to create Personal Identification Verification cards that if programmed correctly can be used to access sensitive law enforcement computers. Prosecutors allege the men cozied up to Secret Services agents, including one assigned to first lady Jill Biden’s security detail.The investigation into the men began March 14, when a U.S.
Ali’s defense, on the other hand, shifted the blame to Taherzadeh, arguing in court documents that Ali “may well have naively but genuinely believed” that Taherzadeh was a special agent with Homeland Security Investigations. The defense explained Ali’s alleged mistake by pointing to the government’s own allegations that four U.S. Secret Service agents had made similar misjudgments by believing the other defendant.
Prosecutors have also argued that Ali poses a flight risk, citing his past travel and unsubstantiated claim to one witness that he had ties to the Pakistani intelligence service. In a statement Friday, Pakistan Embassy spokeswoman Maliha Shahid denied Ali’s claim of ties to the country’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency. “The claim of Mr. Haider Ali is totally fallacious,” she said. “The Embassy categorically rejects this false claim.”Ali, a naturalized U.S.
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