Northern Virginia prosecutor Parisa Dehghani-Tafti recently defied a House Judiciary Committee request for documents as part of a probe into claims she is siding with a left-wing activist being investigated for alleged threats made against White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller.
“Your November 27 response misstated the Committee’s authority to conduct oversight and failed to provide a single responsive document,” House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote in a letter addressed to Dehghani-Tafti Tuesday and obtained by The Post.
“Notably, your letter repeated many of the same arguments raised by another local prosecutor in response to the Committee’s oversight of a similar politically biased prosecutorial decision,” Jordan noted, referring to Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg. “A federal court subsequently rejected those arguments.
“We do the same here, and reiterate our request for your cooperation.”
The Republican-led committee is investigating “apparently politically-motivated actions” taken by Dehghani-Tafti, the Commonwealth’s Attorney for Arlington County and the City of Falls Church, in a case involving a woman accused of putting up menacing flyers in Miller’s Northern Virginia neighborhood and making a bizarre gesture at the White House official’s wife.
In October, Dehghani-Tafti reportedly asked a local judge to limit a state law enforcement search warrant related to 66-year-old Barbara Wien’s alleged actions, and what information cops could share with the FBI.
In his initial request for information from Dehghani-Tafti, Jordan described the prosecutor’s actions in the case as “unusual” and said investigators accused her of “stymying the investigation” into Wien, who allegedly plastered the Miller’s neighborhood with “”NO NAZIS IN NOVA,” flyers.
The posters included an image of Miller’s head inside a crossed-out red circle and listed his home address.
A QR code on the flyers linked to the Instagram account of the activist group, Arlington Neighbors United for Humanity (ANUFH) – an organization Jordan claimed Dehghani-Tafti is a supporter of.
The flyers were put up on Sept. 11 – the day after Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk’s assassination in Utah.
That same day, Wien allegedly walked by the Millers’ home as the White House official’s wife, Katie Miller, sat on the porch and pointed her index and middle fingers to her eye, signaling that she was watching the family.
Wien has not been arrested, and the warrants sought were to investigate whether she had violated any laws.
The information sought by Jordan included all documents and communications related to Dehghani-Tafti’s office’s receipt and use of federal funds.
The committee also asked for communications between Dehghani-Tafti and her employees mentioning the Millers, Wien or Arlington Neighbors United for Humanity.
In her response to Jordan’s November demand, obtained by The Post, Dehghani-Tafti accused the committee of overstepping its authority, attempting to interfere with state and local affairs and improperly requesting information about a pending criminal investigation.
Dehghani-Tafti’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
