Thursday, March 28

Biden wants to ban the sale and distribution of ghost guns


Happy Monday, OnPolitics readers.

Here’s something you may have missed over the weekend: Federal prosecutors said Friday that Secret Service members assigned to key missions were “compromised” by two individuals impersonating federal agents.

The intentions of Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Ali, 35, who allegedly gave gifts and rent-free apartments to Secret Service agents, were not immediately clear. A federal magistrate made no immediate decision on whether to jail the suspects pending trial.

Assistant US Attorney Joshua Rothstein said the investigation into the actions of the impersonators is still in its early stages.

“The scale of the compromise that they created is quite large,” Rothstein said.

Rothstein told US Magistrate G. Michael Harvey that the suspects “had firearms, they had ammunition, they had body armor, they had tactical gear, they had surveillance equipment, and they were 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.”




www.usatoday.com

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