Now I see the agenda-pushing explanation for the recent spate of Marathon goodies from the Globe!
Remember these guys?
"Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s college friends indicted" by Maria Sacchetti | Globe Staff, August 08, 2013
Two college friends of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev were indicted Thursday on federal obstruction of justice charges, while lawyers for a third friend said he is negotiating a possible deal in his case.
Dias Kadyrbayev and Azamat Tazhayakov, both 19-year-old former students from Kazakhstan, were indicted by a federal grand jury, which said they took evidence from Tsarnaev’s dorm room at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, tossed it in the trash, and watched a rubbish truck take it away after authorities had publicly identified Tsarnaev as a suspect. They were first charged in May in US District Court, but the indictment increased their possible sentence from five to 25 years in prison.
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A third friend, Robel Phillipos of Cambridge, was also charged in May with lying to investigators, but he was not indicted Thursday. His lawyers filed a motion yesterday in US District Court in Boston saying Phillipos is “engaged in negotiations aimed at possible resolution of this matter,” though they did not elaborate.
The flurry of legal activity is the latest development in a wide-ranging investigation into the Marathon bombings that has taken a number of bizarre turns and expanded to foreign countries and the state of Florida, where a prosecutor said Thursday that he is conducting an independent review of the fatal shooting of a friend of Tsarnaev’s brother by a Boston FBI agent in May....
It will back up the FBI version, no doubt, but it sometimes makes one wonder if we are having an effect.
The Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov lawyers said Thursday that the teenagers had no idea that Tsarnaev was involved in the attack and said they would fight the new charges in court.
That's because he really wasn't. His FBI and CIA handlers (that is the only explanation for failure to alert the Russians and the return here if you buy the official bs) told the kids to be there. It was later decided to frame them.
“It’s disappointing that the government would charge Dias and Azamat, given that they cooperated fully,” Robert G. Stahl, Kadyrbayev’s lawyer, said in a phone interview. “Obviously in this situation and the political and social atmosphere, no one is going to give them any breaks.”
I'm starting to think lawyers know what is really going on, even if the Globe has to couch such things in insults and blatant propaganda.
Tazhayakov’s lawyer, Arkady Bukh, called his client a “scared, distressed 19-year-old boy” and said the charges should have been dismissed.
“I personally feel this is a witch hunt,” Bukh said from his New York office. “This is a case that should go to trial, and the client should have an opportunity to explain his behavior to a jury. If the government doesn’t feel like dismissing the case, we will go to trial.”
What I think we have is a possible deal in the works with this as cudgel. Then the kids will be quietly deported.
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Lawyers for Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov have pointed out that their clients cooperated with investigators without a lawyer or a consular official.
Probably a real bad move, but they are teenagers! Teenagers have a tendency to do stoo-pid things sometimes.
They have said that Kadyrbayev handed over Tsarnaev’s laptop as well, though they would not say why the friends went to the dorm room that night.
The lawyers said Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov come from affluent families and that they loved studying in the United States and had no motive to harm anyone....
I think they were flunking out, but I don;t doubt they liked being here. The affluent thing really flies in the face of all this, too. Not some illiterate, dirt-eating "turrurist" from abroad, etc.
Bukh suggested that Tazhayakov “was in the wrong time in the wrong place.”
You got that backwards.
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US Attorney Carmen Ortiz declined to comment Thursday through a spokeswoman.
Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov are scheduled to be arraigned at 2 p.m. Tuesday in US District Court in Boston, and they are being held without bail at the Essex County Correctional Facility in Middleton. They were arrested April 20 on immigration violations, then charged May 1 with conspiracy to obstruct justice, which carries a penalty of up to five years.
Thursday’s indictment accused them of conspiracy and added a new charge of obstruction of justice, which carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison. Each charge also carries up to three years of supervised release and a $250,000 fine. Both also face possible deportation to Kazakhstan, an oil-
producing nation in Central Asia.
Phillipos, a native US citizen and the son of a single mother from Ethiopia, has been released on bond.
The indictment said....
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