A judge plans to allow two men charged with posing as federal agents to be released on bail, even though prosecutors argue they could pose a 'risk to national security.'
U.S. Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey said Tuesday the case doesn’t meet any of the standards to deny bail.
They "engaged in conduct that represented a serious threat to the community, compromised the operations of a federal law enforcement agency, and created a potential risk to national security,” prosecutors said in court filings.At a detention hearing Monday, Taherzadeh's lawyer Michelle Peterson countered that the government had “jumped to the wildest conspiracy theories imaginable.
Prosecutor Joshua Rothstein said the Secret Service appeared to have inadvertently alerted the pair to the investigation on April 4. That's the day the Secret Service placed four agents involved with Taherzadeh and Ali on leave and started a review of their conduct.
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