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The two men accused of impersonating federal operatives and gifting Secret Service agents rent-free apartments, smartphones, TVs and other items were ordered to home confinement this week after a federal judge ruled they were not a flight risk. Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Sher-Ali, 35, were released to their families on Wednesday and will remain under house arrest. The two will also be monitored by GPS technology, according to court documents outlining the conditions of their release. Taherzadeh was spotted by photographers entering his father’s home in Sterling, Va. Wednesday afternoon and waved to the cameras, holding a shopping bag...

A judge in Washington D.C. denied on Tuesday federal prosecutors' motion to detain the two men impersonating federal agents because he says he isn't convinced that there are links to Pakistan intelligence. He also claimed that deleting social media posts wasn't proof that the other defendant would tamper with evidence, as federal lawyers argued. I am going to 'deny the government's request that the two defendants be held pending trial,' Magistrate Judge G. Michael Harvey said during proceedings Tuesday. The decision comes after it was revealed in proceedings earlier Tuesday that Arian Taherzadeh, 40, and Haider Sher-Ali, 35, were 'inadvertently...