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The man convicted and sentenced to decease for carrying retired nan Boston Marathon bombing successful 2013 is fighting to support national prosecutors from seizing nan costs he has accumulated successful his situation canteen account.
The Boston Herald reported an lawyer for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 30, revenge an entreaty seeking to extremity nan feds successful Boston from taking nan $4,200-plus successful Tsarnaev's account, arguing nan decease statement inmate "is neither hoarding costs nor spending profligately."
Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev (FBI via Getty Images / Getty Images)
According to nan outlet, prosecutors opportunity Tsarnaev has received astir $26,000 successful donations from various sources, including from strangers, his sisters and his attorneys.
Tsarnaev's lawyer, David Patton, besides confirmed successful nan filing his customer received a $1,400 COVID relief costs a fewer years agone and that "Tsarnaev continues to person unsolicited deposits from group whom he has ne'er met," but that his customer does not person entree to those funds.
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Federal officials successful Massachusetts person been moving for much than 2 years to get Tsarnaev to manus complete nan COVID relief money and immoderate different costs successful his inmate spot relationship to beryllium put toward nan much than $101 cardinal he owes his victims.
The segment aft a explosive blasts astatine nan 117th moving of nan Boston Marathon April 15, 2013. (Stuart Cahill/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Following his 2015 trial, Tsarnaev was ordered to salary much than $101 cardinal successful criminal restitution and an further $3,000 fee. His lawyer said his customer has paid $2,600 truthful far.
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Tsarnaev was convicted of 30 charges related to nan 2013 bombing astatine nan decorativeness statement of nan Boston Marathon. The blast killed 3 group and injured complete 260 others. Seventeen of nan injured victims mislaid astatine slightest 1 limb successful nan attack.
Photos of nan deceased are displayed during Mass astatine nan Cathedral of nan Holy Cross connected nan first Sunday aft nan Boston Marathon bombings April 21, 2013, successful Boston. (Mario Tama/Getty Images / Getty Images)
Tsarnaev and his relative past led constabulary connected a multi-day chase, during which clip Massachusetts Institute of Technology Police Officer Sean Collier was changeable and killed. Tsarnaev’s brother, Tamerlan, besides died.
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Tsarnaev is being held astatine Colorado’s ADMAX Florence, known arsenic "The Alcatraz of nan Rockies," while his attorneys activity to have his decease condemnation overturned. Retired prison guard Bob Hood told nan Herald taxpayers' measure for Tsarnaev's incarceration has easy topped $1 cardinal already.
Hood called Tsarnaev's entree to nan thousands successful his situation relationship "offensive."
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"He came successful indigent, and he should stay an indigent," Hood told nan Herald. "It’s sick that he has immoderate benignant of following."
FOX News' Brie Stimson contributed to this report.
