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Boston bombers' friend sentenced to 2-1/2 years for lying to investigators
A citizen of Kyrgyzstan who was friends with the Boston Marathon bombers apologized on Thursday for lying to investigators probing the deadly 2013 attack and was then sentenced to 2-1/2 years in federal prison.
Cab driver Khairullozhon Matanov is the fourth person connected to ethnic Chechen brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev to face jail time for misleading investigators during the massive search for the men who killed three people and injured 264 with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs.
He looked pale in court on Thursday, and tears could be seen in his eyes as U.S. District Judge William Young read his sentence.
"I want to apologize for lying to the FBI," Matanov said. "I'm not sympathetic of any terrorist organizations."
More: Yahoo! News
Cab driver Khairullozhon Matanov is the fourth person connected to ethnic Chechen brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev to face jail time for misleading investigators during the massive search for the men who killed three people and injured 264 with a pair of homemade pressure-cooker bombs.
He looked pale in court on Thursday, and tears could be seen in his eyes as U.S. District Judge William Young read his sentence.
"I want to apologize for lying to the FBI," Matanov said. "I'm not sympathetic of any terrorist organizations."
More: Yahoo! News
Yet, lying is all congress does. Even FBI Director Robert Mueller lied to congress and nothing happens to him. As a matter of fact, nothing happens to lairs and law breakers that are in positions of power. Wall Street lies and almost brings down the economy and they get a get out of jail free card.
If you're nobody and lie to congress or the FBI, you go straight to jail.
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