The mainstream media has been forced to backtrack after previously attacking Republican Sen. Tom Cotton for rightly warning that the Boston Bomber would get a COVID stimulus check
A US District Judge has given approval that federal prosecutors may take convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's $1,400 COVID-19 stimulus payment to help pay the millions of dollars he is ordered to pay his victims.
So the federal government actually tried to give Tsarnaev stimulus money.
The bigger question is how many other murderers, rapists & criminals also got COVID stimulus payments.
In a filing last week, the U.S. attorney's office in Boston had 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."
So far, Tsarnaev has paid a little more than $2,200 of that, all toward the assessment. And although he has not paid a penny in restitution, Tsarnaev has used his inmate account to pay his siblings for items such as “gifts,” “support,” and “books.”
Last year, Republican Sen. Tom Cotton warned that Tsarnaev would get stimulus cash.
Back in March of 2021, Washington Post’s “fact checker” Glenn Kessler ran a piece attacking Sen. Cotton about the claim, writing :
“On March 8, [Cotton] tweeted that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston bomber, would also get benefits and declared, ‘Get ready for campaign ads,’ but for all the hype, there’s less to these claims than one might imagine — particularly because the previous stimulus bills passed last year under GOP control also did not bar payments to prisoners and the small subset of undocumented immigrants referenced by Barrasso."
Kessler now writes “It turns out Tom Cotton predicted correctly -- Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston bomber, did get a stimulus check. So we've adjusted the Pinocchio rating on this 2021 fact check.”
The Hill's media critic Joe Concha rightly blasts the Washington Post for keeping the headline.