Posted on 04/23/2013 8:57:15 PM PDT by RightGeek
Marathon bombings mastermind Tamerlan Tsarnaev was living on taxpayer-funded state welfare benefits even as he was delving deep into the world of radical anti-American Islamism, the Herald has learned.
State officials confirmed last night that Tsarnaev, slain in a raging gun battle with police last Friday, was receiving benefits along with his wife, Katherine Russell Tsarnaev, and their 3-year-old daughter. The state’s Executive Office of Health and Human Services said those benefits ended in 2012 when the couple stopped meeting income eligibility limits. Russell Tsarnaev’s attorney has claimed Katherine — who had converted to Islam — was working up to 80 hours a week as a home health aide while Tsarnaev stayed at home.
In addition, both of Tsarnaev’s parents received benefits, and accused brother bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan were recipients through their parents when they were younger, according to the state.
The news raises questions over whether Tsarnaev financed his radicalization on taxpayer money.
Relatives and news reports have indicated that Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s descent into extremist Islam began around 2008 or 2009, when the ethnic Chechen met a convert identified only as “Misha,” began to become more devout, and sought out jihadist and conspiracy theorist websites, and the rabidly anti-Semitic propaganda tract, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.”
In 2009, he was quoted in a photo essay as saying, “I don’t have a single American friend, I don’t understand them,” adding that he believed Americans had lost their “values.”
His uncle Ruslan Tsarnaev said it was around that time he gave up drinking and was devoting himself to “God’s business,” while his mother, now wearing hijab — Islamic garb — began relating conspiracy theories about the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks to her cosmetology clients that she said her son had told her.
In early 2011, Tamerlan Tsarnaev first came to the attention of the FBI when the Russian FSB intelligence service contacted the U.S. agency to warn that he was suspected of being a dangerous radical and sought information.
“The request stated that it was based on information that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared to leave the United States for travel to the country’s region to join unspecified underground groups.” The FBI reported finding no “terrorism activity.”
In mid-2011, he was being monitored by the FSB, apparently prompting the FBI contact, ahead of his six-month trip home to Dagestan in 2012, where Time magazine reported he is believed to have attended a notorious radical mosque.
The state did not say when the Tsarnaevs began receiving benefits. But Health and Human Services spokesman Alec Loftus said the Tsarnaevs “were not receiving transitional assistance benefits at the time of the incident,” a reference to the marathon bombing that killed three and injuring 260. Loftus declined to specify what kinds of benefits and the amount of benefits the family received.
Their taxpayer-funded status came to light last night after repeated calls and emails to welfare officials from the Herald. They refused to comment throughout the day, but pressure mounted last night when the Herald started asking lawmakers whether the Department of Transitional Assistance should release the info.
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I was young poor and at Ramen noodles everyday as an undergraduate. So I don't want to here it. Your statement is infuriating to every self reliant citizen that ever pulled themselves up from nothing WITHOUT help from uncle sugar.
It never says how much he received. I know in Pennsylvania it is 535 a week and in Maryland about 440 a week. I find it interesting that they don’t mention how much he received. Oops this is unemployment...sorry. Maybe he was getting unemployment. Being a terrorist does not have plentiful jobs in the United States.
Makes you wonder where her kids go their money, eh?
The islamopigs’ word for US citizens must be “Suckers!”
The apartment will also most likely be funded through Section 8 Housing. Which receives, federal, state and local money. I would guess they are getting $2200 just in rent money.
Everyone who pays taxes in the U.S. funded these two.
Home healthcare aids typically work under the table.
Did they use Obamaphones to trigger the bomb?
I would want an answer on that!!!!
Don’t forget in this state we have welfare cars. We also paid for the get-away car.
The U.S. Immigration is badly broken. We cannot start to propose any “comprehensive immigration reform” until we first admit we have a problem.
These are just another group of Americans for LaRaza Rubio!
The FBI closed the file on the future terrorist concluding he was a losers on welfare and more importantly a future Democrat voters.
Was that a typo or on purpose? Because I think it works that we are the Untied States vs the United States.
At any rate, where did the money for their tuition, books and related expenses come from if the extended family was on welfare?
Taxpayers' money? State and/or federal grants? Subsidies of any kind?
We native-born suckers with inquiring minds want to know.
Leni
Makes me ill.
Maybe I should just quit and go on welfare.
Thanks for the ping!
The American part of the "marriage" worked to support the Immigrant part of the "marriage", enabling the Immigrant part to slacker around and build bombs to kill as many Americans as possible.
And the American part almost certainly knew the Immigrant part hated the American part and was in fact, a MF'N Jihadi.
And the American part converted to the Immigrant parts' religion, just to show the Immigrant part how fair the American part was.
A near perfect analogy of our American political and social culture as perfected by Obama and Ayers.
And still the irony will be lost on the sheeple.
The bitch knew exactly what he was doing.
The younger did win a $2,500 scholarship, but that probably wouldn’t cover more than a semester at UMass. But, he may well have qualified for all sorts of financial aid, they probably bend over backyards for a non-citizen.
The younger is a U.S. citizen granted back in 2011. He most assuredly received a free ride to college including expenses.
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