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Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev received state welfare benefits until 2012: report
Mastermind of terror attack that killed three was living off taxpayers as hatred of Americans grew.
He grew to hate Americans, but that didn't stop him from living off them.
Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev and other family members received state welfare benefits until last year, Massachusetts officials confirmed to the Boston Herald on Tuesday night.
The 26-year-old Tsarnaev was killed in a bloody gun battle with authorities early Friday morning, and his younger brother and accomplice Dzhokhar was captured alive later that evening. Dzhokhar, 19, was charged Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction and could face the death penalty.
The taxpayer-funded benefits for Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his wife and his young daughter ended in 2012 when they were no longer eligible, the Executive Office of Health and Human Services in Massachusetts told the Herald. Officials did not say when the family began receiving benefits.
The Tsarnaevs were "not receiving transitional assistance benefits at the time of the incident,” a Health and Human Services spokesman told the newspaper.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Islamic extremism and hatred of the U.S. likely dates back to 2009 when he was quoted in a photo essay, according to the Herald: “I don’t have a single American friend, I don’t understand them."
The bombing mastermind also read websites featuring extremist propaganda, including one site linked to a Yemen-based offshoot of Al Qaeda, officials said. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly told police from his hospital bed that he and his brother, ethnic Chechens, came up with the terror plot in response to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Mastermind of terror attack that killed three was living off taxpayers as hatred of Americans grew.
He grew to hate Americans, but that didn't stop him from living off them.
Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev and other family members received state welfare benefits until last year, Massachusetts officials confirmed to the Boston Herald on Tuesday night.
The 26-year-old Tsarnaev was killed in a bloody gun battle with authorities early Friday morning, and his younger brother and accomplice Dzhokhar was captured alive later that evening. Dzhokhar, 19, was charged Monday with using a weapon of mass destruction and could face the death penalty.
The taxpayer-funded benefits for Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his wife and his young daughter ended in 2012 when they were no longer eligible, the Executive Office of Health and Human Services in Massachusetts told the Herald. Officials did not say when the family began receiving benefits.
The Tsarnaevs were "not receiving transitional assistance benefits at the time of the incident,” a Health and Human Services spokesman told the newspaper.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev's Islamic extremism and hatred of the U.S. likely dates back to 2009 when he was quoted in a photo essay, according to the Herald: “I don’t have a single American friend, I don’t understand them."
The bombing mastermind also read websites featuring extremist propaganda, including one site linked to a Yemen-based offshoot of Al Qaeda, officials said. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev reportedly told police from his hospital bed that he and his brother, ethnic Chechens, came up with the terror plot in response to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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