Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received a $1,400 COVID-19 relief payment last year, but it appears he won’t be allowed to keep it.
A federal court in Massachusetts ordered that the money on June 22, 2021, and other funds be returned after prosecutors filed a complaint Wednesday that revealed the deposit, CBS Boston reported.
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In particular, federal prosecutors asked the court to authorize the Bureau of Prisons “to turn over all funds held in the inmate trust account for the Defendant to the Clerk of Court as payment toward the criminal monetary penalties imposed in this case.”
Sen. Tom Cotton criticized the COVID-19 relief bill that passed in March 2021, noting that relief funds would go to prisoners, Tsarnaev among them.
“Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Bomber, murdered three people and terrorized a city,” the Arkansas Republican said in a tweet. “He’ll be getting a $1,400 stimulus check as part of the Democrats’ ‘COVID relief’ bill.”
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Tsarnaev, now 28, was convicted in 2015 for his role in the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three and injured hundreds. His older brother, Tamerlan, was wounded and later died at Beth Israel Hospital in the ensuing manhunt during which MIT campus police officer Sean Collier was was shot and killed.
Tsarnaev was sentenced to death, but a federal appeals court overturned that sentence in 2020, citing procedural errors during his sentencing. The Biden administration asked the Supreme Court to reinstate the death penalty in October.
