A missing Massachusetts mother-of-three is the real estate manager in charge of a luxury Washington DC building where two fake Homeland Security agents lived.
Ana Walshe, 39, was the building manager where cozied up to ‘s Secret Service agents, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The search for her has reached its 11th day, with her husband Brian Walshe, 47, pleading not guilty to charges of misleading police after they discovered blood and a knife in the basement of their Cohasset home.
Ali, 35, and Taherzadeh, 40, spent months infiltrating themselves with Secret Service agents and other members of the luxury building.
They lived in the property’s penthouse – valued at a minimum of $40,000 a year for just one of the top-tier apartments.
Ana’s company, Tishman Speyer, has since been awarded $222,000 in unpaid rent on the five apartments the con-men leased.
Residents of the building recall seeing Ana for the first time when the FBI raided the Tishman Speyer-owned building.
Ana was described as a ‘force’ by residents who dealt with her, explaining that she was around a ‘lot more’ after the initial incident.
A resident of the building told DailyMail.com: ‘She was a force, a very professional woman who was to the point.
‘She was a bit fake, we didn’t know that she had kids or a husband or anything like that she never spoke about them. She was small and definitely powerful.
‘She lied that she worked for the building when all the FBI stuff was going on, which was really weird to us but it might have been to stop us asking her questions when she didn’t know much either.
‘She likes to show off her Maserati and her designer clothes like Hermes belts and things on Instagram and everything.
‘We were shocked to hear that she was missing, and we don’t think it’s linked to the FBI with everything coming out about the husband, but it is all very strange.’
Taherzadeh and Ali both pleaded guilty to creating a private law enforcement service called the United States Special Police and impersonating federal agents to recruit members to their fake investigative team.
He also lavished gifts on Secret Service agents of up to $90,000, including one assigned to protect the First Lady, such as rent-free luxury apartments in Washington DC, drones, iPhones and firearms.
Court records show he racked up more than $1 million in debt for unpaid rent from apartment complexes, luxury cars, VIP box seats at Capital One Arena, and a sponsorship deal with the company that owns several professional sports teams.
Under the guise of USSP, he and Ali defrauded three local apartment complexes into providing him with multiple units and parking spots for his alleged law enforcement operations and used a fraudulent affiliation with DHS to ‘ingratiate themselves with members of federal law enforcement.’
It comes as police continue to search for the missing real estate executive, who was last seen at her home on New Year’s Day at around 6am – after throwing a bash the night before.
Security footage shows her husband at a juice bar ordering three children’s smoothies and two large ones on January 2, the day after Ana disappeared.
The couple has three sons, believed to be aged two, four, and six.
Ana was reported missing to police on January 4 by her employer in DC – three days after her husband last saw her on January 1.
