"Friends of Marathon bomb suspect arraigned; Pair accused of tossing evidence" by Patricia Wen | Globe Staff, August 13, 2013
A former college classmate of alleged Boston Marathon bomber suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who was arraigned in federal court Tuesday on charges of obstructing justice in the investigation, believes Tsarnaev is guilty, said the student’s father.
Amir Ismagulov, father of Azamat Tazhayakov, said his son is not among the group of Tsarnaev’s friends who believe that Tsarnaev has been framed. Ismagulov said his son has concluded that Tsarnaev planted the bombs that killed three people and wounded more than 260 on April 15.
“He believes Dzhokhar Tsarnaev did this,” the father said in Russian, through his lawyer who acted as a translator, after the arraignment Tuesday. “He is the killer.”
Some friend.
Meanwhile, his son and Dias Kadyrbayev, another classmate from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges that they obstructed justice by taking evidence from Tsarnaev’s dormitory room, including his laptop and a backpack containing fireworks, on the night he went on the run.
Dressed in orange prison jumpsuits, their legs shackled, Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov, both from Kazakhstan, looked nothing like photos of them that have circulated in the past few months. In one of those images, they appeared, alongside Tsarnaev, enjoying a trip to Times Square in New York City. In another, one of the defendant’s appears to be sitting down at a homemade meal at one of their homes.
The US District Court hearing was brief, with each defendant saying “not guilty” to the charges. Tazhayakov’s mother and siblings were also present, as well as Kadyrbayev’s father. At some point during the proceedings, the defendants waved and smiled to their family.
Prosecutors told the judge they expect the trial to last two weeks, with a potential list of at least 15 witnesses.
Kadyrbayev’s attorney, Robert G. Stahl, said in a statement that his client was a “law-abiding college student whose only crime was befriending a fellow student who spoke his more comfortable native language.”
Stahl also said that even though Kadyrbayev came from “a former Soviet-bloc region where police are routinely distrusted,” he had “fully cooperated” with authorities and answered the FBI’s questions for nearly 12 hours over two days without a lawyer or a Kazakh consular official present.
The pair were arraigned before US Magistrate Judge Marianne Bowler. They could get five to 25 years in prison and are being held at the Essex County jail in Middleton.
A third college friend of Tsarnaev, Robel Phillipos, a fellow graduate of Cambridge Rindge and Latin, faces federal charges of lying to investigators, though court papers filed last week said Phillipos is “engaged in negotiations aimed at possible resolution of this matter.”
A federal grand jury indicted Kadyrbayev and Tazhayakov last week for taking evidence from Tsarnaev’s room at the UMass Dartmouth, tossing some in the trash and watching a rubbish truck take it away. They allegedly acted after authorities had publicly identified Tsarnaev as a suspect.
Among the items taken was a backpack containing fireworks. The fireworks containers had been opened and manipulated, according to the indictment. The indictment also said a jar of Vaseline was found, and the indictment states that Kadyrbayev believed Tsarnaev had used Vaseline to make bombs.
Someone is in need of Vaseline.
Defense lawyers have said that Tsarnaev’s laptop was not discarded and that when law enforcement asked for the computer, they readily complied and handed it over.
So that whole searching the dump story was a crock of s***?
The indictment revealed for the first time the exact language used in one of the text messages Kadyrbayev allegedly received from Tsarnaev on the night of April 18, while he was on the run. Kadyrbayev also allegedly showed this text message to Tazhayakov. It read: “If yu [sic] want yu [sic] can go to my room and take what’s there [symbol of smiley face] but ight [sic] bro [sic] Salam aleikum.”
The final two words refer to a traditional Muslim traditional greeting meaning “peace to you.”
Tazhayakov’s father laughed when asked about that greeting and his son’s connection to Islam.
He insisted his son is innocent and that his son had none of the radical Muslim political thinking that Tsarnaev allegedly had and was raised in a “liberal traditional Islam” family.
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Related: Marathon College Chums Charged With Conspiracy
One has to remember these kids have been held and threatened by people who literally have the power of life and death over them.
"Third college friend of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev indicted; Robel Phillipos accused of lying to investigators" by Maria Sacchetti | Globe Staff, August 29, 2013
A federal grand jury indicted Robel Phillipos, a friend of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, on Thursday on charges of lying to investigators in a terrorism investigation, despite attempts by Phillipos’s defense lawyers to dismiss the case.
So much for the negotiations for a deal.
Prosecutors say the 19-year-old Cambridge man gave wildly conflicting accounts about visiting Tsarnaev’s dorm room at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth with two friends, days after the bombings killed three people and injured more than 260 others. Authorities said the friends left with a backpack, fireworks, and other items later discovered in a New Bedford landfill.
Phillipos is the third college friend of Tsarnaev to be indicted in the case in US District Court in Boston. He was noticeably missing from the indictment earlier this month of the two friends, Azamat Tazhayakov and Dias Kadyrbayev, who face stiffer penalties for conspiracy and obstruction of justice. The three men had appeared in court together for the initial charges on May 1.
On Thursday, authorities added Phillipos to the indictment, charging him with two counts of making false statements.
Phillipos’s lawyers had hoped to negotiate a deal in his case, describing him as a civic-minded former honor student with a clean record who was frightened by federal investigators. He is a native US citizen, born in Boston, and the only one of the three men released on bail. He was released on May 6 after posting $100,000.
“In time, it will be clear that this prosecution should not have been brought in the first place,” said Phillipos’s lawyers, Susan Church and Derege Demissie....
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Also see: Tsarnaev friend’s lawyer wants court order lifted
Three friends of Marathon bomb suspect plead not guilty
Phillipos denies lying to the FBI.
Other friends further away:
"Father of Tsarnaev friend says FBI contacted him; Refused to meet with any agents" by Maria Sacchetti | Globe Staff, August 13, 2013
The father of a Chechen man fatally shot by the FBI was sought for questioning by the bureau after he arrived in the United States last week to pursue a possible wrongful death lawsuit against the bureau, his lawyers said Tuesday.
FBI agents approached Abdulbaki Todashev at a private residence in Florida after he arrived from Russia to seek answers in the May shooting death of his son, Ibragim Todashev, a friend of suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Todashev’s father refused to meet with the agents and has had no contact since.
See: Sunday Globe Special: A Father's Love
See: Sunday Globe Special: A Father's Love
“We’re not going to talk to them, with a lawyer, without a lawyer,” said Barry Cohen, the lead counsel on the legal team Todashev assembled with the help of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Florida. “He will not be talking to the FBI.”
The FBI declined to confirm Tuesday whether agents had approached Todashev, who lives in Chechnya, a region in southern Russia where he is a government official.
“While individuals are free to speak about their interactions with the FBI, we do not, as a matter of practice, discuss or describe any contact we have or allegedly have with individuals,” spokesman Paul Bresson said. “It is our policy not to confirm or deny whether we spoke with members of the public, because to do so would, in many instances, have a chilling effect on the public’s cooperation with us.”
Incredible. Then what is with all the leaks?
Abdulbaki Todashev revealed the encounter with the FBI at a press conference to announce his legal team Tuesday at the Tampa office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. His lawyers said they would monitor the state and federal investigations into the May 22 shooting death of his son in his Orlando apartment and, once the investigations are complete, decide whether to file a lawsuit.
The FBI, with the US Department of Justice, is leading the federal investigation into the shooting. The top prosecutor in Orlando is conducting an independent state investigation into the death, which advocates welcomed Tuesday.
Cohen, a prominent lawyer in Tampa, said Todashev would cooperate only with the Orlando prosecutor and the local US attorney. In an unexpected twist Tuesday, Cohen sent an e-mail to the FBI and other agencies accusing the bureau of sending a clandestine observer to the council’s press conference to report back to the bureau. The FBI declined to comment on the assertion.
Since the fatal shooting of Ibragim Todashev, the FBI has drawn criticism for providing scant details about the death and for barring the Florida medical examiner from releasing the autopsy report.
The FBI has said only that Todashev was shot during interrogation by the FBI and the Massachusetts State Police related to the bombing investigation. The bureau has said that Todashev initiated a violent confrontation and that an agent was injured.
News reports differed over whether Todashev was armed. Some said he was about to write a confession implicating himself and Tsarnaev in a triple homicide in Waltham in 2011, though Eric Ludin, one of Abdulbaki Todashev’s lawyers, said he had seen no evidence of that.
Todashev, a 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter, had two arrests in violent cases, including a road-rage case in Boston and a parking lot altercation in Florida.
But Todashev’s father has said his son was unarmed and recovering from a recent knee surgery, suggesting he was unable to attack the investigators. He said his son had voluntarily submitted to several FBI interrogations before the final interview. “He didn’t do anything wrong,” Todashev said.
He was looking forward to leaving.
Federal and state investigators contacted Ibragim Todashev after the April 15 bombings killed three people and injured more than 260. Todashev came to the United States in 2008 from Russia to study English and won asylum that year. He lived for a time in Allston and Cambridge, before moving to Florida, and was an acquaintance of Tsarnaev, also an ethnic Chechen.
Tsarnaev and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, are accused of carrying out the bombings and later killing an MIT police officer. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died after a police shootout.
Yup.
Also see: Sunday Globe Special: Theorizing About the Death of Ibragim Todashev
Please forgive me for being sick of cover story crap and mouthpiece regurgitations.
"Associate of Ibragim Todashev is arrested in Florida" by Travis Andersen | Globe Staff, September 21, 2013
A friend of Ibragim Todashev, the man fatally shot by an FBI agent in Orlando in May during questioning about one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers, has been arrested on charges of threatening a witness in a 14-month-old battery case involving Todashev.
Ashurmamad Miraliev, 23, of Orlando was arrested Wednesday on a charge of tampering with a victim by threat, according to an affidavit filed by the Orange County sheriff’s office.
Miraliev was turned over to the custody of the FBI and Florida authorities for an interview, according to an affidavit, but bureau officials declined to comment Friday.
The battery case in question is not connected to the Marathon bombings or to Todashev’s death, said Twis Lizasuain, spokeswoman for the Osceola County sheriff’s office, which filed the arrest warrant for Miraliev Monday.
His arrest stemmed from an incident July 7, 2012, at the Ali Baba Hookah Cafe and Lounge in Kissimmee, Fla., when the manager asked Miraliev and Todashev to leave after they had an argument with him, Lizasuain said.
They later approached the manager outside the bar, where Todashev allegedly struck him, Lizasuain said. However, authorities did not know the identities of the men then.
“At the time, they were just two Russian males [who] battered the manager of this bar,” Lizasuain said, adding that officials learned the identity of Todashev in May and were in the process of obtaining an arrest warrant for him at the time of his death.
In August, she said, authorities received an anonymous tip that Miraliev may have threatened the bar manager at some point after the alleged attack.
“Based upon those threats, that was what led to the tampering with the witness felony warrant,” Lizasuain said.
It was not immediately clear Friday if Miraliev, a native of Tajikistan, had appeared in court yet or hired an attorney. A phone number listed for him was not accepting messages Friday.
Todashev, a 27-year-old ethnic Chechen, was killed by a Boston FBI agent on May 22 in his Orlando apartment during an interrogation by agents, the Massachusetts State Police, and other law enforcement officers. The FBI said he initiated a violent confrontation and that the Boston agent was injured.
Conflicting news reports soon emerged about the shooting: Some said that Todashev was armed with a blade or a pole, while others said he did not have a weapon.
The FBI has said that agents were questioning Todashev in connection with the Marathon bombings, which killed three and injured more than 260 on April 15.
But news reports later said Todashev was about to sign a confession implicating himself and bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a triple homicide in Waltham in 2011.
Tsarnaev died in a police shootout days after the bombings, and his brother, Dzhokhar, is in custody facing federal charges.
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"Todashev’s girlfriend in custody again in Florida; May be facing deportation" by Wesley Lowery | Globe Staff, October 02, 2013
The former live-in girlfriend of Ibragim Todashev is in federal custody in Florida, detained for speaking to members of the news media, says a civil rights organization that has monitored the Todashev case.
Are you f***ing kidding me?
The Glades County Sheriff’s Office in Florida confirmed that Tatiana Gruzdeva is being held in the county jail at the order of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
ICE officials in both Florida and Washington, D.C., could not be reached for comment Tuesday due to the federal government shutdown.
“It’s ridiculous,” said Hassan Shilby, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Florida. “They’re trying to teach her that if you speak out about injustice, they will make your life a living hell.”
Gruzdeva, 19, has been told she will be deported back to Moldova for overstaying her visa, according to representatives from the Council on American-Islamic Relations who have spoken with her. This is the second time she has been threatened with deportation since Todashev was killed.
Say what we want you to say and keep your mouth shut -- or else.
Todashev, a friend of accused Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was shot and killed by an FBI agent on May 22 after the agent and Massachusetts state troopers interrogated him at his Orlando apartment about the bombing and an unsolved 2011 triple homicide in Waltham.
Gruzdeva was detained earlier this year after accompanying Todashev to a voluntary interview with FBI agents just one week before he was killed.
On May 30, an immigration judge ordered Gruzdeva removed from the country because she had overstayed her visa. However, she was released in August and granted another year’s stay in the United States.
According to the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Gruzdeva had an 11 a.m. meeting scheduled with immigration officials Tuesday to secure her work authorization.
But three FBI agents appeared at the meeting and took her into custody, according to the council.
“They told her ‘You have been talking to the reporters . . . and you have been saying that Ibragim was a good guy’,” according to notes from a phone conversation between Gruzdeva and a council attorney.
She was then told by immigration officials that her visa was expired and that she would be deported, according to the council.
“They literally told her: Because you have been speaking to reporters, we’re going to lock you up,” said Shilby, the council spokesman.
The arrest comes just two weeks after Gruzdeva gave her first interview since Todashev’s killing to Boston magazine.
She later told the Globe that she was worried that the interview was a mistake and would anger federal authorities.
“I just thinking today about my interview for Boston magazine, and I realize it was my mistake,” Gruzdeva told a Globe reporter on the day that the interview was published. “I don’t want to have any problem with the FBI. I already had a lot. . . . It was the worst time in all my life. I just don’t want to have more problem.”
How is telling the truth a problem for the FBI?
Law enforcement officials have leaked conflicting reports to reporters about the circumstances of Todashev’s shooting. Some accounts allege that he attacked agents, but reports have differed over whether Todashev was armed. Some accounts say Todashev was about to write a confession implicating himself and Tsarnaev in the Waltham triple homicide.
All smells like bullshit to me.
The FBI has refused to comment on the reports and has ordered that Todashev’s autopsy and all other medical records be sealed and has not issued a report on the shooting.
It's called a cover up.
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"Todashev implicated Tsarnaev in murders, prosecutors reveal" by Milton J. Valencia, Michael Rezendes and Martin Finucane | Globe Staff, October 23, 2013
Ibragim Todashev, a friend of deceased Marathon bombings suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev, told investigators that Tsarnaev participated in a triple murder in Waltham in 2011, according to a filing by prosecutors in federal court.
Says who?
Says who?
Todashev was killed by an FBI agent who was interviewing him in May. His death remains under investigation. Tsarnaev was killed when he was shot by police and run over by his own brother in a confrontation in Watertown several days after the April 15 bombings.
After the bombings, investigators began taking a closer look at whether Tsarnaev, who knew the Waltham murder victims, was involved in that case.
Todashev’s statement that Tsarnaev was involved in the murders was previously reported. But the court filing was the first official confirmation.
“According to Todashev, Tamerlan Tsarnaev participated in the Waltham homicides,” prosecutors said in the filing, though they did not elaborate.
The federal prosecutors’ statement came in response to a motion filed by defense attorneys for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev that sought to compel the release of prosecution evidence. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Tamerlan’s younger brother, faces federal charges and sought the evidence to prepare his defense, but prosecutors opposed the motion, which included, among other things, a request for more information about the Waltham case.
“The Middlesex District Attorney’s office is engaged in an active, ongoing investigation into the Waltham triple homicide,” prosecutors said. “Disclosure of the details of that investigation could jeopardize it.”
“Any benefit to Tsarnaev of knowing more about the precise ‘nature and extent’ of his brother’s involvement does not outweigh the potential harm of exposing details of an ongoing investigation into an extremely serious crime, especially at this stage of the proceedings,” prosecutors said.
The three Waltham victims’ throats were slit in the early evening hours of Sept. 11, 2011, the Globe reported in June.
For the next 18 months the investigation seemed to go nowhere. The killings were dismissed by many as what appeared to be three low-level drug dealers who must have gotten in over their heads.
Then, after the bombings, investigators began taking a closer look at Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who, along with his brother, is accused of killing three people and wounding 260 others in the twin blasts that struck near the Marathon finish line, as well as the murder of an MIT police officer.
Translation: they are going to pin the triple-homicide on a dead guys.
Translation: they are going to pin the triple-homicide on a dead guys.
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"Tamerlan Tsarnaev revelation upsets kin of victims" by Michael Rezendes | Globe Staff, October 24, 2013
Friends and relatives of three young men who were slashed to death in a Waltham apartment in 2011 said Wednesday that they remain dissatisfied with the information they have received from public safety officials. They made their comments after federal officials for the first time disclosed publicly in a court filing that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been implicated in the triple homicide.
“The fact that they’re not being more forthcoming with us makes you wonder whether there’s more information out there,” said a friend of Rafael M. Teken, a 37-year-old Brandeis graduate who was visiting the Waltham apartment on the evening of the homicides.
“It upset me, obviously,” said a friend of Brendan H. Mess, a former Cambridge resident, referring to the court filing. “I think there’s way more to it.”
So do I.
Federal prosecutors in a court filing said Monday that Ibragim Todashev, a friend of Tsarnaev’s, told investigators that Tsarnaev participated in the Waltham triple homicide, which took place on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.
Prosecutors provided the information in a single sentence near the end of a routine 23-page court filing in the case against Tsarnaev’s brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
This so stinks, folks.
Todashev was shot to death in his Orlando apartment during a May interview with an FBI agent under circumstances that remain under investigation by federal authorities.
Also slain in the triple homicide was Erik H. Weissman, 31, a local entrepreneur. All three of the young men were known drug dealers who were found in a second-floor Harding Avenue apartment with their throats slashed and their torsos covered with marijuana....
Gee, all of a sudden drug dealers are "local entrepreneurs!
Related:
"In January 2011, eight months before the triple homicide, Boston police searched a Roslindale apartment where Weissman was living and seized more than $21,000 in cash, along with a drug ledger, a currency counter, digital scales, and a wide assortment of drugs, including marijuana, hashish, cocaine, and Oxycontin. Weissman also was a partner in a small business called Hitman Glass, which manufactured and sold glass bongs used to smoke marijuana, according to a Facebook remembrance page, interviews, and public records. Several friends of the victims noted that each of them had been selling drugs for years.... Weissman, may have resorted to selling guns because he had forfeited cash and a stash of drugs when his apartment in Roslindale was raided... The Globe was unable to obtain [his] death certificate."
I think we just found the killer, and why weren't these guys in jail?
"Boston police searched Weissman’s Roslindale apartment and seized more than $21,000 in cash, along with drug paraphernalia and a wide assortment of drugs, including marijuana, hashish, cocaine, and Oxycontin.... Teken attended Brookline High School and Brandeis University and his father, Avi Teken, is the spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation in Newton."
Now what would radical Islamist jihadists be doing with a bunch of drug-dealing, gun-running Jews, and why did the Mossad just pop into my mind?
Law enforcement authorities have repeatedly declined to answer questions about the triple homicide or Todashev’s death. And Florida authorities, at the behest of the FBI, have declined to release Todashev’s autopsy.
According to unnamed sources interviewed by the Globe, two Massachusetts state troopers assigned to investigate the Waltham triple homicide were on or near the scene in Orlando when an FBI agent shot and killed Todashev.
But Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has declined to open her own investigation into Todashev’s death, citing a lack of jurisdiction.
And Governor Deval Patrick, during a Tuesday interview with Jim Braude and Margery Eagan on WGBH-radio, declined to say whether the troopers could provide an explanation for Todashev’s death.
“As they say in court, question’s been asked and answered,” Patrick said.
It has not been answered. It was sidestepped.
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And there are always the relatives and in-laws to consider:
"Ailina Tsarnaeva, who is 23 and lives in New Jersey, is charged with lying to a Boston police detective investigating a counterfeit bill used at an Applebee’s restaurant in Dorchester in April 2010. Tsarnaeva is not accused of passing the fake currency, but police say she knew members of the group that did. After a short hearing, she was released on personal recognizance after agreeing to check in with the Probation Department once a week. She left the South Boston courthouse without speaking to reporters."
Wow. Who would want to cover up those eyes with a veil?
"The in-laws of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects appeared before a federal grand jury in Boston Thursday in an apparent investigation related to the April 15 attacks that killed three people, injured more than 250, and created a weeklong scare throughout Boston and the country. Their lawyer, Amato DeLuca, of DeLuca & Weizenbaum in Providence, said Katherine Russell -- the wife of Tamerlan Tsarnaev -- is not a target in the investigation."
"Tamerlan Tsarnaev revelation upsets kin of victims" by Michael Rezendes | Globe Staff, October 24, 2013
Friends and relatives of three young men who were slashed to death in a Waltham apartment in 2011 said Wednesday that they remain dissatisfied with the information they have received from public safety officials. They made their comments after federal officials for the first time disclosed publicly in a court filing that Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev had been implicated in the triple homicide.
“The fact that they’re not being more forthcoming with us makes you wonder whether there’s more information out there,” said a friend of Rafael M. Teken, a 37-year-old Brandeis graduate who was visiting the Waltham apartment on the evening of the homicides.
“It upset me, obviously,” said a friend of Brendan H. Mess, a former Cambridge resident, referring to the court filing. “I think there’s way more to it.”
So do I.
Federal prosecutors in a court filing said Monday that Ibragim Todashev, a friend of Tsarnaev’s, told investigators that Tsarnaev participated in the Waltham triple homicide, which took place on the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks.
Prosecutors provided the information in a single sentence near the end of a routine 23-page court filing in the case against Tsarnaev’s brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
This so stinks, folks.
Todashev was shot to death in his Orlando apartment during a May interview with an FBI agent under circumstances that remain under investigation by federal authorities.
Also slain in the triple homicide was Erik H. Weissman, 31, a local entrepreneur. All three of the young men were known drug dealers who were found in a second-floor Harding Avenue apartment with their throats slashed and their torsos covered with marijuana....
Gee, all of a sudden drug dealers are "local entrepreneurs!
Related:
"In January 2011, eight months before the triple homicide, Boston police searched a Roslindale apartment where Weissman was living and seized more than $21,000 in cash, along with a drug ledger, a currency counter, digital scales, and a wide assortment of drugs, including marijuana, hashish, cocaine, and Oxycontin. Weissman also was a partner in a small business called Hitman Glass, which manufactured and sold glass bongs used to smoke marijuana, according to a Facebook remembrance page, interviews, and public records. Several friends of the victims noted that each of them had been selling drugs for years.... Weissman, may have resorted to selling guns because he had forfeited cash and a stash of drugs when his apartment in Roslindale was raided... The Globe was unable to obtain [his] death certificate."
I think we just found the killer, and why weren't these guys in jail?
"Boston police searched Weissman’s Roslindale apartment and seized more than $21,000 in cash, along with drug paraphernalia and a wide assortment of drugs, including marijuana, hashish, cocaine, and Oxycontin.... Teken attended Brookline High School and Brandeis University and his father, Avi Teken, is the spiritual leader of a Jewish congregation in Newton."
Now what would radical Islamist jihadists be doing with a bunch of drug-dealing, gun-running Jews, and why did the Mossad just pop into my mind?
Law enforcement authorities have repeatedly declined to answer questions about the triple homicide or Todashev’s death. And Florida authorities, at the behest of the FBI, have declined to release Todashev’s autopsy.
According to unnamed sources interviewed by the Globe, two Massachusetts state troopers assigned to investigate the Waltham triple homicide were on or near the scene in Orlando when an FBI agent shot and killed Todashev.
But Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has declined to open her own investigation into Todashev’s death, citing a lack of jurisdiction.
And Governor Deval Patrick, during a Tuesday interview with Jim Braude and Margery Eagan on WGBH-radio, declined to say whether the troopers could provide an explanation for Todashev’s death.
“As they say in court, question’s been asked and answered,” Patrick said.
It has not been answered. It was sidestepped.
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And there are always the relatives and in-laws to consider:
"Ailina Tsarnaeva, who is 23 and lives in New Jersey, is charged with lying to a Boston police detective investigating a counterfeit bill used at an Applebee’s restaurant in Dorchester in April 2010. Tsarnaeva is not accused of passing the fake currency, but police say she knew members of the group that did. After a short hearing, she was released on personal recognizance after agreeing to check in with the Probation Department once a week. She left the South Boston courthouse without speaking to reporters."
Wow. Who would want to cover up those eyes with a veil?
"The in-laws of one of the Boston Marathon bombing suspects appeared before a federal grand jury in Boston Thursday in an apparent investigation related to the April 15 attacks that killed three people, injured more than 250, and created a weeklong scare throughout Boston and the country. Their lawyer, Amato DeLuca, of DeLuca & Weizenbaum in Providence, said Katherine Russell -- the wife of Tamerlan Tsarnaev -- is not a target in the investigation."
Related:
Tsarnaev lawyers want prison restrictions eased
Tsarnaev received nearly 1,000 letters while in custody
Officials seek to prosecute Tsarnaev in Mass.
Defense team requests records before presentation to Holder
Deadline set for US to choose on penalty
Tsarnaev defense seeks more time
Massachusetts is willing to give it to him.
"Tsarnaev’s lawyers won’t get more time to argue against death penalty" by Milton J. Valencia | Globe Staff, October 18, 2013
The ruling came as senior US Senator Charles E. Grassley, a Republican of Iowa, has been pressing the FBI about what the bureau knew about Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan at any time before the April 15 Boston bombings and whether the bureau had been conducting surveillance of them in Cambridge.
It's the limited hangout version to you will believe the official lie.
The two brothers are suspected of planting the bombs that killed three people and injured more than 260 during the Boston Marathon.
Tamerlan was later killed in a gunfight with police, and Dzhokhar faces multiple charges that carry the possibility of the death penalty.
The FBI has maintained that it learned the identity of the suspected bombers only after it released photos of them from the scene to news media on April 18. Hours after the photos were issued, prosecutors say, the Tsarnaev brothers killed MIT police Officer Sean Collier in Cambridge and led authorities into a gunfight in Watertown, where they threw explosives at officers.
See: Toying With the Boston Marathon Bombing
Related:
Tsarnaev lawyers’ motion hints at declaration
Boat owner seeks to clarify record on Tsarnaev capture
Did Tsarnaev manhunt unnecessarily endanger the public’s safety?
In a word, yes.
Grassley, a ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter Tuesday to James B. Comey Jr., recently appointed FBI director, pressing for more information about what the bureau knew of the Tsarnaev brothers and whether agents ever recruited them as informants or used them in sting operations. The senator noted that the FBI initially interviewed Tamerlan in 2011 after Russian authorities warned of his extremist views, and Grassley questioned whether they had been interviewed since then.
Grassley also pushed the FBI on when investigators identified the Tsarnaev brothers as the bombers and whether the bureau had them under surveillance at any time prior to release of their photos on April 18. He said he has learned that FBI teams were in Central Square in Cambridge in the hours before Collier was shot and killed, after the photos of the Tsarnaevs were released. The senator questioned whether the teams were there investigating the brothers and whether anyone in the Cambridge Police Department knew that.
The FBI responded in a pointed, joint press release with Boston police and State Police Friday that it has repeatedly said investigators did not identify the Tsarnaevs as the bombing suspects until they fingerprinted Tamerlan’s body after the Watertown gun battle. They also denied having any surveillance of him at any time after he was interviewed in 2011.
The statement acknowledged that the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, comprising local, state, and federal law enforcement officials, was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus in Cambridge on April 18, but the bureau said that it was for “a matter unrelated to the Tsarnaev brothers.”
“Additionally, the Tsarnaev brothers were never sources for the FBI, nor did the FBI attempt to recruit them as sources,” the statement said. “To be absolutely clear: No one was surveilling the Tsarnaevs, and they were not identified until after the shootout. Any claims to the contrary are false.”
Like we would believe anything they said. It is likely the kids were FBI contacts (if not CIA assets when overseas). I'll bet they were ordered to be at the Marathon that day so they could be set up. Call it the Oswald treatment.
FBI special agent Gregory Comcowich, a spokesman for the bureau, said later that the “appropriate personnel” at MIT and Cambridge police were aware that the task force was in Cambridge, but he would only say it was “unrelated to the Tsarnaevs.” He would not say if it was in relation to the bombing investigation.
Cambridge and MIT police refused to comment.
US Representative William Keating, a Massachusetts Democrat who sits on the House Committee on Homeland Security, said in an interview Friday that he has asked some of the same questions as Grassley, including in a July 31 letter to Comey, but they have also gone unanswered. Keating said he has had more cooperation from local police and from Russian authorities than from the FBI.
Doesn't that tell you something?
“This is what happens when you don’t answer questions, the questions don’t go away, and in fact they can grow into other areas,” Keating said. “When it comes to law enforcement in particular, that can erode public confidence.”
He added, “The reason for the letter, and the reason for my letter, was their lack of accountability in terms of anyone having oversight over them.”
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Related: Shutdown delays intelligence review of Marathon bombings
Pffft!
I was told Justice and FBI didn't suffer from furloughs because of "found" money!!
Also see: Accused One Fund scammer allegedly had help from brother
Enough with the villains; let's get to the heroes:
"Marathon blasts triggered PTSD symptoms for veterans, BU study finds" by David Abel | Globe Staff, November 09, 2013
Some veterans called in sick in the days afterward, while one, an alcoholic struggling to stay sober, resumed drinking. Others had flashbacks of the gore of war, with one so consumed by television coverage of the Marathon blasts and the ensuing manhunt that she had to be hospitalized. Another veteran, after learning of all the severed limbs on Boylston Street, ruminated about a fellow soldier who had been torn apart in battle.
In the days after the bombings, which brought home a horror that many of them faced abroad, some veterans began to experience again the trauma they had spent years struggling to overcome.
A study released Friday of Boston-area military veterans previously diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder found that 38 percent of those surveyed said they experienced emotional distress as a result of the bombings and the lockdown during the search for the suspects. Of those, a majority told researchers that they experienced unwanted memories of their own trauma.
“These veterans are among the unrecognized victims of the terrorist attacks, those whose injuries are hidden.”
Imagine how the victims of our attacks and invasions feel.
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"Since the bombs exploded at the Boston Marathon, when Carlos Arredondo rushed from the VIP stands to clear barricades and make a tourniquet from a sweater sleeve that saved Jeff Bauman’s life, the 53-year-old has become the face of Boston Strong, seen by some as an almost mythic embodiment of courage in the face of terror. Already a public figure for more than a decade as the man who set himself ablaze after learning that his son was killed in Iraq and as a ubiquitous antiwar protester, he is now what some of his friends call Boston’s “comforter in chief.” It has become a full-time role, one that has brought celebrity and adoration, accolades, and perks both financial and emotional. Nearly every day since the attacks, Arredondo has been booked with public appearances."
Wow, isn't that really, really strange?
Related:
"The story told by Carlos Arredondo is a complete fabrication. Virtually every aspect of the tale he has told is demonstrably untrue and yet it has been readily accepted and repeated by the mainstream media."
See: The Boston Marathon Bombings: Fully Exposed
Yes, who could ever believe what you are seeing on your TV (from 9/11 to Sandy Hook to chemical weapons use in Syria and even the fireworks) is all staged and scripted fakery?
Now maybe you think I'm a lark of a conspiracy theorist, but I would advise you to look at links again
UMass Boston unveils portrait of Krystle Campbell
Trooper who leaked bombing suspect’s photos retires
