Tishman Speyer, landlord of men accused of impersonating DHS agents won $222K judgment for unpaid rent
The landlord of two Washington, D.C., men charged with impersonating Department of Homeland Security agents won a judgment for more than $222,000 in unpaid rent for the five apartments they lived in and loaned out to U.S. Secret Service agents, a court filing shows.

The default judgment against "United States Special Police," a company connected to the men, Arian Taherzadeh and Haider Ali, was entered in Superior Court in Washington in January.

United States Special Police, which is not a law enforcement agency, had leased the five apartments at Crossing on First Street since late 2020, according to a lawsuit filed in July by a limited liability corporation owned by Tishman Speyer, the real estate giant that owns the building.

But USSP had not paid any rent during that time, the suit says.

And "they had created a fake person to sign the lease," a federal prosecutor said in court Friday, referring to Tazherzadeh and Ali.