Score one for Boston prosecutors.
A federal judge has granted a request from the acting U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Nathaniel Mendell to seize $21,071 from Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s prison canteen account.
That cash includes a $1,400 COVID stimulus check sent to Tsarnaev, 28, last June — a payout that’s been targeted in Congress.
“The Boston Marathon Bomber should never have received a covid stimulus check, yet every Senate Democrat voted to give him one,” Arkansas U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton told the Herald Thursday in a statement.
“I hope (Suffolk DA) Rachael Rollins will undertake every legal effort to rescind that payment — surely a mass murderer doesn’t fall into her ‘do not prosecute’ list,” Cotton, who fought Rollins’ appointment by President Biden to the U.S. Attorney post in Massachusetts, added. Rollins posted a no-prosecute list of crimes — including shoplifting — that she would not prosecute when she took over as Suffolk DA.
Mendell, who will be replaced by Rollins on Monday, had filed an order “authorizing the BOP (Board of Prisons) to turn over all funds.” Mendell adds Tsarnaev owes the government — and the victims of the April 15, 2013 bombings — $101,129,627.
U.S. District Court Judge George O’Toole Jr. authorized the Bureau of Prisons “to turn over to
the Clerk of Court any and all funds, including any funds subject to administrate hold by BOP,
held” in Tsarnaev’s prison canteen account.
“This is unbelievable,” said Peter Brown, whose two grown nephews lost their right legs in the bombings and still undergo operations today.
“It boggles the mind that he received a government stimulus check. That’s just plain wrong. He attacked the community that welcomed him in,” Brown added.
All that cash was readily available to Tsarnaev as he awaits his fate in a Colorado Supermax prison. The U.S. Supreme Court is set to take up his death penalty appeal during this session.
Tsarnaev, a student at UMass Dartmouth at the time of the bombing, and his older brother, Tamerlan, set off the two bombs at the marathon finish line, killing three people and wounding and maiming more than 260 others. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a manhunt three days later — run over by his brother fleeing in a car.
The bombing killed Martin Richard, 8; Krystle Campbell, 29; and Lu Lingzi, 23. MIT Police Officer Sean Collier, 27, was shot execution-style days later by the Tsarnaevs who were on the run. Boston Police Officer Dennis Simmonds, 28, injured in that Watertown shootout, died in April 2014.
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And why has this dog been allowed to continue living off of taxpayers? If that cull was a Trump supporter he would have been executed long before poor innocent Ashley Babbitt was on Jan 6.
“The Boston Marathon Bomber should never have received a covid stimulus check,
yet every Senate Democrat voted to give him one,”
The treachery of the traitorous, socialist Democrat Party know no bounds.
THIS is why i feel our current SHANKED UP system of ‘death row’, is WORTHLESS..
ALL too often these cretins, get 25+ years on death row, BEFORE THEIR sentence gets carried out, and ONLY AFTER half a dozen or MORE APPEALS get done.
WHICH IS WHY for a good two decades now, i’ve wanted to see, death row inmates, GET THEIR SENTENCE carried out, at MAXIMUM< 5 years after conviction. OR AFTER THEIR one appeal and ONLY ONE appeal, gets heard and shut down. Which ever comes Sooner.
It would be interesting—if not horrifying—to know just how many government payouts go to illegitimate recipients.
IIRC mid last year, there was a report, that ALMOST 1 bil has been paid out to illegitimate recipients.. MOSTLY ILLEGAL INVADERS AND CRIMINALS still in jail.
Just where do you think the democrat donations to elect fellow criminals comes from? You guess it, your recycled redistributed honest American tax dollars used for dishonest purposes. That is how they leave office way richer than when they went in.
We would most likely be vomiting and unable to type if we actually knew!
AND You can bet, your last cent, THAT NOT A SINGLE ONE OF those illegal/illegitmate payments, have OR EVER WILL BE attempted to ‘reclaim’ on.
A lot. That is their way to bleed and drain the USA taxpayer’s dollars and break our country to rebuild a SOCIALIST COUNTRY.