Judge OKs marathon bomber's COVID payment going to victims

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Judge OKs marathon bomber’s COVID payment going to victims

By MARK PRATT
January 7, 2021

A U.S. District Court judge agreed to let federal prosecutors use convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s $1,400 COVID-19 stimulus payment, as well as other money held in his inmate trust account, to help pay the millions of dollars he was ordered to pay his victims, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

In a filing Wednesday, the U.S. attorney’s office in Boston asked a judge to order the federal Bureau of Prisons to turn the money over to the Clerk of the Court “as payment towards his outstanding criminal monetary penalties, including unpaid special assessment and restitution.”

In addition to the stimulus payment, Tsarnaev, who’s being held at a maximum security prison in Florence, Colorado, has received money from dozens of sources during his incarceration, including the federal public defender’s office and regular payments from individuals living in Indiana, New Jersey and Maryland, according to the filing by acting U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, Nathaniel Mendell.

As of Dec. 22, Tsarnaev had $3,885 and change in his account.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/boston-marathon-bomber-covid-payment-3e6a308e5712b6d070e31ab792029486

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Link to The Wall Street Journal.: Boston Marathon Bomber's Prison Funds Are Seized

Convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's prison funds have been seized as he has forgone paying restitution to victims of the 2013 terrorist attack

Link to tweet

Boston Marathon Bomber’s Prison Funds Are Seized
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has spent thousands in prison while not paying restitution owed to victims of the 2013 terrorist attack.

[underpants]

2. OMG! Fourteen hundred dollars!!!!

[jimfields33]

3. What's sad is he has more money in his bank account then majority of Americans

who don’t have 400 dollars for an emergency. That’s most repulsive.

[abqtommy]

5. Well, that is a lot of money for any inmate to have in their "trust account"! nt

[Zeitghost]

4. Why in the world

Would prisoners be getting COVID relief? They don't need to pay rent, they don't need to buy groceries, they don't need to make a car payment.

[Eugene]

6. Everybody who filed a tax return was eligible, even prison inmates.

Trump's Treasury tried to withhold these payments, but the law makes no provision. It's up to state and federal prisons to claw back restitution, fines, court costs, room and board from whatever money the inmate comes into.