Judge orders Boston Marathon bomber's stimulus check can be used to pay his victims
CBSN
A U.S. District Court in Boston has ordered the Bureau of Prisons to turn over the stimulus check of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev. The $1,400 COVID relief payment that Tsarnaev received in June, as well as other funds being held in his inmate trust, will be used to for outstanding payments to his victims, according to court documents.
Tsarnaev, now 28, is currently serving a life sentence following the 2013 bombing, which killed three people and injured 260 when two pressure cooker bombs were set off near the Boston Marathon's finish line. Tsarnaev acted with his older brother, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was killed in a shootout with police three days later.
In addition to his death sentence, Tsarnaev was ordered to pay $3,000 special assessment and $101,126,627 in criminal restitution, and has paid $2,202.03 so far, according to the court documents.
