He was friend of the Tsarnaevs, readers.
"Results of Todashev shooting probe expected early next year" by Maria Sacchetti | Globe Staff, December 13, 2013
A Florida prosecutor investigating the fatal shooting of a Chechen man by an FBI agent interrogating him about the Boston Marathon bombings said on Friday that he expects to release his findings early next year.
State Attorney Jeffrey L. Ashton said he met with US Department of Justice officials Wednesday to discuss their separate investigations into the killing of Ibragim Todashev, a friend of suspected bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev, in his Orlando apartment in the early hours of May 22.
Ashton, the top prosecutor in Orlando, received “additional investigative material” from Justice officials and requested more information, a spokesman said in a statement.
“The State Attorney and his staff will diligently continue their investigation into the death of Ibragim Todashev with the expectation of concluding the investigation and making the findings public in early 2014,” said Ashton’s spokesman, Richard Wallsh. A state attorney in Florida is similar to a district attorney in Massachusetts.
I haven't seen anything yet, and I diligently checked my Boston Globes.
Ashton is conducting the only independent inquiry into the shooting of the 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter in his Orlando apartment. The FBI and its overseeing agency, the Department of Justice, are also investigating to determine whether the use of deadly force was reasonable under the law. But civil rights groups had welcomed Ashton’s independent inquiry, pointing out that such FBI investigations typically clear the agents involved.
It's the same with law enforcement all across AmeriKa and why I'm not spending a lot of time on this.
Lawyers and government officials have said the state and federal investigations could lead to a reprimand or even criminal charges against the agent who killed Todashev.
However, on Wednesday, the executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations expressed concern that Ashton may rely too heavily on the FBI’s account of the shooting.
“It’s curious that it’s taken so long,” said Hassan Shibly, executive director of CAIR in Florida. “I’m interested to see what, if anything, has been recently offered that’s requiring them to delay the investigation.
Not really. They hope everyone forgets and I'll bet they quietly release the report on a Friday before a three-day holiday weekend.
FBI spokesman Paul Bresson declined to comment while the investigation is still pending.
The FBI has remained tight-lipped about the Todashev shooting, saying only that the agent, two Massachusetts State Police troopers and others were questioning Todashev as part of the investigation into the Boston Marathon bombings when he allegedly initiated a violent confrontation and was shot and killed. The FBI said the agent was injured.
However, the FBI has refused to say if Todashev was armed or describe the confrontation that led to the fatal shooting. Instead, media reports based on anonymous sources have said that Todashev was armed with a stick or a pole and lunged at an agent as he was about to sign a confession to his and Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s alleged involvement in a 2011 triple murder in Waltham.
When one logically looks at this what becomes clear is he was refusing to sign a confession for something he did not do.
Todashev had been arrested at least twice before he was killed, for a road-rage incident in Boston in 2010 and again in Florida, weeks before he was killed, for allegedly beating a man over a parking space.
Thus the implication is he must have committed murder.
Sorry I'm tired of reading this swill, folks.
Todashev was a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, one of two brothers suspected of planting two bombs in April at the Boston Marathon finish line that killed three people and injured more than 260 others. Tamerlan Tsarnaev died April 19 after a confrontation with police in Watertown. His younger brother Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, is in federal custody facing charges. The Tsarnaev brothers also allegedly killed an MIT police officer.
Todashev’s family and friends have said he did nothing wrong and have sharply questioned the FBI’s account of the shooting.
The FBI lie? Surely you jest?
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has pointed out that Todashev had voluntarily spoken with the FBI at least three times at their offices before they came to his apartment, and later shot and killed him.
It's called intimidation and pressure.
Todashev’s father, Abdulbaki Todashev, a government official in Chechnya, has said he believed his son was unarmed and could not have attacked the authorities because he was still recovering from knee surgery. He has accused the FBI of “premeditated, intentional murder” and is considering a wrongful death lawsuit against the bureau.
Shibly, the CAIR director, also raised concern Wednesday that federal immigration officials arrested two potential witnesses to the FBI’s conduct leading up to the shooting. Todashev’s girlfriend, Tatiana Gruzdeva, was arrested for having an expired visa before he was killed and was deported to Russia on Oct. 11 after talking to the media.
Todashev’s friend, Ashurmamad Miraliev, was also ordered to leave the country voluntarily after local authorities arrested him in September for allegedly trying to intimidate a witness in an unrelated case. The charges against Miraliev have been dropped, according to the Osceola County court. He left the country on Nov. 19.
Only AmeriKan authorities are allowed to intimidate witnesses!
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"Father of man killed by FBI asks for investigation" by Maria Sacchetti and David Filipov | Globe staff, December 30, 2013
The father of a man fatally shot by an FBI agent investigating the Boston Marathon bombings said he has e-mailed President Obama photographs of his son’s bullet-ridden body and urged him to look into the death.
Obummer won't do a damn thing!
“I am not asking you to share my pain, but I am asking you, as the head of the great country, the guarantor of democracy in the modern world, to help the law and justice prevail,” Abdulbaki Todashev, the father of Ibragim Todashev, said in a letter he e-mailed to the White House this month.
You are asking the wrong war criminal and tyrant.
Abdulbaki Todashev, a government official in Chechnya, released the letter as a Florida prosecutor prepared to announce early next year the findings of his inquiry into the May 22 shooting in Orlando. The FBI is also probing the death, but civil liberties groups say the bureau has generally exonerated agents in past shootings.
In a telephone interview Monday, Todashev said he feared that the FBI would not be held accountable for the slaying.
They never are.
His son, a 27-year-old mixed martial arts fighter with a criminal record, was a friend of the Tsarnaev brothers suspected in the Marathon bombings. But Abdulbaki Todashev said his son did nothing wrong and had voluntarily met with the FBI several times before he was killed.
“I wanted the president to take this matter under his own control,” he said from Grozny, the capital of the southern region of Chechnya in Russia. “Maybe these prosecutors do not report to him directly, but he is the guarantor of the Constitution of the United States. He can do something.”
Like what, issue an unconstitutional executive order?
The FBI and State Attorney Jeffrey L. Ashton, who is conducting the Florida inquiry, declined to comment. Caitlin Hayden, spokeswoman for the National Security Council, confirmed Monday that the White House had received the letter “and will be reviewing it to determine the appropriate follow-up.”
In his lengthy e-mail to Obama, Todashev said the FBI has provided scant details about the shooting and has barred the medical examiner from releasing the autopsy report. “I can’t help but think that an independent medical examination is unlikely if the examiners obey the FBI’s orders,” he wrote.
Todashev said in the e-mail that Ibragim Todashev was a loving son, one of 12 children, who came to the United States in 2008 to practice English. He said that his son met Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev at the gym when he lived in Massachusetts and that he moved to Orlando in 2011.
Tamerlan died in a gunfight with police days after the April 15 bombings killed three people and injured more than 260 others. Dzhokhar is in federal custody pending trial.
In the e-mail, Abdulbaki Todashev said investigators showed up at Ibragim Todashev’s apartment May 21 and asked one of his son’s friends to leave.
They didn't want witnesses.
The investigators, including two Massachusetts State Police troopers, stayed into the early hours of the next morning, when Todashev was shot.
Translation: they were not leaving without a signed confession.
Since then, the FBI has provided few details, saying only that Todashev initiated a violent confrontation that injured the agent. The bureau has refused to say whether Todashev was armed or describe the confrontation.
News reports based on anonymous sources have said that Todashev was armed with a stick or a pole and lunged at the FBI agent as he was about to sign a confession implicating himself and Tamerlan Tsarnaev in a 2011 triple murder in Waltham. The Middlesex district attorney’s office, which is investigating the Waltham slayings, declined to comment.
We were told a knife at first.
And they wonder why we no longer believe a f***ing word from the Federal Bureau of Instigation?
In the letter to Obama, Todashev’s father called the allegations “absurd” and said his son had nothing to do with the Waltham slayings.
Abdulbaki Todashev said he believed his son was unarmed and could not have attacked the investigators because he was still using crutches while recovering from a March knee surgery. He said that his son’s body was covered in bruises and had been shot 13 times and that he believed his son was tortured.
He pointed out that the US government had just given his son a green card and that his son had been planning to return home for a visit May 24.
Translation: Todashev, the Tsarnaevs, and all the other friends are fall guys for the FBI!
However, law enforcement records in Florida show that his son was arrested the same month he was killed for allegedly badly beating a man in a dispute over a parking space at a mall. Ibragim Todashev had also been arrested in 2010 for a road rage incident in Boston.
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Related: A Father's Love
You expected something less?
Also see:
FBI completes inquiry into death of Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s friend
I gave that article all the attention it was due.
More bombing questions for FBI
Judge grants Tsarnaev lawyers more time for venue decision
Driving charges against Tsarnaev’s widow dismissed
Friends of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to stand trial June 23
The Fall of the House of Tsarnaev
Motive of destruction
That would be $$$$$
"Black box lets data flow in an emergency; Lets first responders on nearly any system share photos, videos" by Hiawatha Bray | Globe Staff, December 23, 2013
The dozens of federal, state, and local police departments that responded to the terrorist bombings during the Boston Marathon in April had a vital tool at their disposal: a radio network that enabled disparate agencies to talk to each other.
But one shortcoming of the system was that there was no easy way for investigators and officers in the field to share data, such as photos and videos. But a black box developed by engineers in Massachusetts could provide the ultimate solution.
The box, created by Mutualink Inc., lets firstresponder agencies instantly share all of their digital communications, regardless of what kind of two-way radio, computer network, or telephone system the agency uses. Mutualink can translate virtually any signal into a standard format that other agencies can use.
“We don’t know of any company on the planet that’s doing it the way we’re doing it,” said Mark Hatten, chief executive of Mutualink. Based in Wallingford, Conn., it maintains its research-and-development facility in Westford.
Police, fire, and emergency medical services from many towns and cities routinely offer help during crises like the Boston Marathon bombing or Hurricane Sandy. State and federal agencies also get involved. But agencies may deploy vastly different electronic equipment, broadcast over different frequencies, use different digital encoding standards. As a result, vital information may not be shared with all who need it.
The results could be deadly.
During the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, 121 New York firefighters were killed in the collapse of the World Trade Center’s north tower. The New York Police Department had broadcast a radio message, warning of the impending collapse, but the firefighters’ incompatible radios did not receive the message.
Emergency agencies in Greater Boston have tackled this problem by creating the Boston Area Police Emergency Radio Network, or BAPERN. This network enables voice communications between 166 law enforcement agencies in Eastern Massachusetts. BAPERN played a vital role in coordinating the response to the bombings.
“The Marathon was unfortunate, but a great example of the use of the system,” said Brookline’s police chief, Dan O’Leary.
But BAPERN does not offer more sophisticated information sharing, such as the ability to transmit video or still images to multiple agencies, like those of the suspected bombers, who were moving among the Marathon crowds moments before the explosions. Mutualink is designed to fill that gap.
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Boston did not rely on Mutualink during the Marathon bombings. But it has come in handy for other applications, such as managing traffic problems.
Boston’s transportation management center operates video cameras at key intersections to monitor traffic. For example, if a stuck vehicle is causing congestion, traffic managers can send a live video feed of the car directly to the towing center, which then remotely monitors the situation while the tow truck is en route. And if the vehicle is fixed or moved quickly, the tow truck can be recalled, saving time and money.
Mutualink has also been installed in public schools, hospitals, and shopping malls. In an emergency, the facility’s security personnel can use Mutualink to speak directly to police or to transmit images from the building’s security cameras.
Still, Mutualink could get a boost from the US government’s ongoing effort to build a $7 billion nationwide digital network for first responders called FirstNet….
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And there is the gun to get running:
"Pledge requirements soar as runners vie for Marathon bibs" by Beth Teitell | Globe Staff, November 29, 2013
After bombs ripped apart the Boston Marathon in April, thousands and thousands of people had the same idea: Next year, I’m running it for charity.
Well, maybe.
So many aspiring runners have applied to the 2014 race’s 138 official charities that winning a bib may be harder than running the race. Dream Big! , a nonprofit that helps low-income girls play sports, has 200 applications for 15 bibs— up from 50 for the 2013 race. Inquiries about joining Team Red Cross started the day of the attack and applications for 35 slots hit 190, compared with last year’s 75. At Massachusetts General Hospital, the doctor who captains the team jokes that he needs to walk the wards incognito.
“I’m frequently stopped by people saying ‘I’d love to run,’ or ‘A good friend of mine wants to raise money, do you have a number? ” said Howard Weinstein, chief of MGH’s pediatric hematology/oncology unit. Most years he can help people out, he said. But with 600 applicants for 100 bibs this year, he said, “I need a disguise.”
The heightened interest has prompted many charities to ask runners to raise more than the $4,000 and $5,000 fund-raising minimums set by the Boston Athletic Association and sponsor John Hancock , respectively.
Brigham and Women’s Hospital raised its minimum to $6,500, from $5,000 last year. The Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary is considering only people who commit to raising $7,500 or more, up from $5,000. Special Olympics Massachusetts is asking runners to raise $10,000, and will hold them to a $7,500 commitment — up from $5,000 for the 2013 race. “There’s so much interest, and so many qualified runners,” said Nicholas Savarese, the group’s director of advancement.
The intense desire to be part of the 2014 race — which the BAA’s executive director, Tom Grilk, calls “inspiring” — is upping the pressure on applicants. Grown adults are finding themselves thrust back into college-application mode. They’re applying to multiple charities; they’re trying to outshine the competition by pledging to raise more than the required minimum — a promise that must be backed up with a credit card....
That's when I stopped running.
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Also see:
Moving essays earn hundreds entry into Marathon
Living stronger by the day, Marathon victim aims for big ride
"One Fund receives $12m more in donations" by Maria Cramer | Globe Staff, January 03, 2014
One Fund Boston, which initially collected $61 million for the victims of the Boston Marathon attacks, has grown by an additional $12 million, as donors from around the world continue to donate. Now, the outpouring of generosity has the organization considering new ways to disburse the funds.
All over a staged and scripted crisis drill likely piggy-backed by a dropping of a backpack bomb.
The nonprofit group, which was formed days after the April 15 attacks, which killed three people and injured more than 260, has tapped a council made up of survivors and victims’ relatives to help it decide how to distribute the latest donations, including whether to give money to those traumatized by the horror they witnessed that day, even if they were not physically harmed….
They have looted so much of the lie they don't know what to do with it.
The new donations came from an array of sources — from corporate fund-raisers to children who dropped coins into envelopes. There were donations from second-graders who gave up their First Communion money and couples who eschewed wedding presents and instead told their guests to donate to the fund.
Related: Second Grade Protest Was Controlled Opposition
Mike Sheehan, One Fund treasurer, said he was especially moved by a person who donated $7….
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Where it's going:
"South End man sues over arrest in One Fund fraud" by Travis Andersen | Globe Staff, December 31, 2013
A South End man accused of trying to steal more than $2 million from the charity for victims of the Boston Marathon bombings is suing State Police and FedEx in connection with the investigation.
Kind of boggles the brain, doesn't it?
Branden E. Mattier, 23, filed his civil suit last week in federal court in Boston.
He says the defendants violated his constitutional rights when he was arrested in July after allegedly signing for a bogus $2.2 million check from One Fund Boston.
A state trooper posing as a FedEx employee delivered the check to his address.
“One Fund Boston never authorized the issuance of said check, nor agreed to a check being doctored to resemble that of a One Fund Boston check,” Mattier, who is representing himself in the lawsuit, wrote in the complaint.
This is going to be dismissed in about as much time as it took him to sign the check.
Prosecutors say Mattier and his brother, Domunique Grice, 28, conspired to defraud the charity by filing a claim on behalf of an aunt who they said was injured in the blasts.
Authorities say the woman died 10 years before the April 15 explosions….
Mattier and his brother planned to test-drive a Mercedes Benz on the day the check was scheduled to arrive, authorities said.
A spokesman for Attorney General Martha Coakley, whose office is prosecuting the men, declined to comment on Mattier’s lawsuit, citing the pending criminal case.
The brothers have pleaded not guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges and are free pending trial. They are due back in court next week for a pretrial hearing. Neither man could be reached Monday, and Mattier’s public defender, John C. Hayes, declined to comment on his client’s lawsuit.
FedEx had no comment Monday night, but David Procopio, a State Police spokesman, disputed Mattier’s allegations. “The facts of the investigation and subsequent arrest, if not simple logic, will make clear that no civil rights violations occurred,” Procopio said.
Mattier is seeking at least $400,000 in damages. He said in court papers that he has never worked and has no cash, checking, or savings accounts.
Among other requests, Mattier seeks a finding that the undercover trooper and FedEx conspired “to deny the plaintiff his constitutional right to be free from [an] unreasonable seizure when he was arrested,” he wrote in the complaint.
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UPDATE: Globe photographers make strong showing in photography awards
Also 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.
