Posted on 04/27/2015 2:41:18 PM PDT by BlatherNaut
The survivors, however, are giving no help with their expenses at all. And remember: the Tsarnaev brothers’ mother said: “Americans are terrorists, my son is the best.”
“Survivors outraged after learning Tsarnaev’s family’s trip to US paid for with American tax dollars,” My Fox Boston, April 24, 2015:
BOSTON (MyFoxBoston.com) — The family of the convicted marathon bomber is in America, on your tax dollars, and survivors are outraged after learning the news.
As of Thursday, family members of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev have been staying at the Hampton Inn in Revere under very tight security, just one of the things tax dollars are paying for. FOX25’s Sharman Sacchetti investigated how much this trip is costing you.
Sources say these family members are being called as witnesses and not only that, at least three agencies are working around the clock to protect and transport them. This is all part of the defense team’s strategy to save Tsarnaev. While it’s unclear when their flight started, we know the last part of it came through Amsterdam and landed at Logan Airport and cost nearly $2,500 per person.
The cost to put them up at the Hampton Inn at the government rate: almost $200 per night, per person. And a source says at least three agencies, the FBI, US Marshal’s and Revere Police are involved in constant protection.
“I think you’re probably talking about $100,000 plus in that neighborhood in terms of security and out of pocket costs associated with travel,” former US attorney Michael Sullivan said.
And that’s just for this trip.
Lawyer fees or even what all witnesses during the trial cost is still unclear. One defense witness, Mark Spencer of Arsenal Consulting, charged $375 per hour and billing taxpayers for $150,000.
Governor Charlie Baker said, “It’s a federal trial, it’s a federal case, the feds ultimately need to make the decisions about this.”
Baker was non-committal about how resources are being used, even state ones.
Sullivan told Sacchetti that while he understands taxpayer outrage, the whole point is to make sure it’s done right.
“The court wants to make sure that at the end of the day, the defendant gets a fair trial and would not want to add any potential issues on appeal in the penalty phase, prosecutors finished making their case yesterday,” he said.
Marathon survivor Marc Fucarile reached out to us Friday night, reacting to this news, saying that he’s outraged that Tsarnaev’s family’s expenses are being paid for when “myself and some of the other survivors and our families have to pay for our own parking at court, lunch, and we were told that if the trial was moved out of state, we’d have to pay for our own travel and lodging, there.”…
I hope not U.S. taxpayers!!!
yes.
each one of those guards that accepts the assignment of guarding the Tsarnaev family are traitors to the United States of America . They should be named and shamed , publicly .
Those who carry the responsibility of representing ‘law & order ‘ need to start reflecting on what that really should mean : NOT protecting terrorists or their families , or rioters running wild in our communities . It is time to de-link law enforcement and our military from this sick far Leftist liberal agenda and cause them , once more , to really stand for and protect law and order and law biding citizens .
Shame shame shame on those who lend themselves as pawns to this awful ,corrupted situation that has developed in our nation today . THEY are part and parcel of the overall problem . traitors
I’m sure Taxachussetts liberals will take up a fundraiser for their travel expenses.
And whine to spare the bomber his life for no parole.
celebrity jihadi douchebags..... whose idea to bring them here .... is this the muzzie in chief rubbing amerika’s nose in it.... most likely.... if it hurts or insults AMERICA obama is all for it.... the half breed has a big chip on his scrawnny slimmed effeminate shoulders.... a true empty suit and a useless pos...a TRAITOR
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