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Federal judge allows Trump to push forward with buyouts for government workers

2025-02-13

Oboy — things are going to accelerate now.

[NYPOST] A federal judge on Wednesday declined to pause the Trump administration's buyout program for government workers, giving President Trump a key win in his push to shrink the size of the federal government.

US District Judge George A. O'Toole ruled that the union groups suing to block the so-called ''Deferred Resignation'' program lacked standing and that his Massachusetts-based court lacked the jurisdiction to proceed with the lawsuit.

O'Toole, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton

...former Democratic president of the U.S. Bill was the second U.S. president to be impeached, the first to deny that oral sex was sex, the first to have difficulty with the definition of the word is...
, temporarily blocked the Office of Personnel Management from moving ahead with the program earlier this week, after unions representing more than 800,000 federal workers charged that that the buyout offers were unlawful.

''The plaintiffs here are not directly impacted by the directive,'' the judge ruled. ''Instead, they allege that the directive subjects them to upstream effects including a diversion of resources to answer members' questions about the directive, a potential loss of membership, and possible reputational harm.''

''The unions do not have the required direct stake in the Fork Directive, but are challenging a policy that affects others, specifically executive branch employees,'' O'Toole continued. ''This is not sufficient.''

Courtesy of Frank G, 10 News adds:

You KNOW this hurt to print
In a Wednesday ruling, a judge dissolved an existing temporary restraining order against the buyouts and declined to enact a preliminary injunction that would have paused the process.

That’s the so-called “Fork in the Road" or “Fork Directive” TRO ….

A federal judge has ruled the Trump administration's buyout of federal workers can proceed.

In a Wednesday ruling, Judge George A. O'Toole dissolved an existing temporary restraining order against the buyouts and declined to enact a preliminary injunction that would have paused the process.

It was his own TRO that he dissolved upon mature reflection. Annoying, but good for him, and no real harm done. In fact, he established a useful precedent for all the other judicial nonsense going on around the President Trump EOs.

The judge ruled that the worker unions that brought the suit did not have standing to sue, and argued that they should have gone through the administrative process of appealing to managers and other officials within their organizations before seeking a legal remedy.

Wait — does that mean the unions have another chance at the thing? It’s a good thing I am not a lawyer, because I confuse much too easily.

The ruling could have implications for whether and how other lawsuits can be brought against the buyout program.

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Biden commutes death sentences of child killers and mass murderers 2 days before Christmas

2024-12-23

[NY Post] Worst POTUS Evah! You can't hate him and his puppeteers enough
They weren’t run over by a reindeer.

President Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 of 40 men on federal death row — a list that includes at least five child killers and several mass murders — in a stunning act of clemency just two days before Christmas.

Biden, 82, gave the reprieve to the nation’s most violent murderers — nine of whom were found too dangerous to live after butchering fellow inmates — as part of his effort at “ensuring a fair and effective justice system,” the White House said.

“Make no mistake: I condemn these murderers, grieve for the victims of their despicable acts, and ache for all the families who have suffered unimaginable and irreparable loss,” Biden said in a statement.

“But guided by my conscience and my experience as a public defender, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Vice President, and now President, I am more convinced than ever that we must stop the use of the death penalty at the federal level. In good conscience, I cannot stand back and let a new administration resume executions that I halted.”

Biden, who opposes the death penalty, lowered each of the 37 sentences to life in prison without parole. He did not say why specifically he considered the original penalties unjust.

Among those receiving the holiday cheer is Thomas Sanders, who in 2010 kidnapped and then shot 12-year-Lexis Roberts four times and cut her throat in Louisiana — days after the girl watched as Sanders murdered her mother on a road trip near the Grand Canyon.

Christmas also came early for Anthony Battle, who murdered an Atlanta prison guard with a hammer in 1994 while serving a life sentence for raping and murdering his wife, a US Marine, in 1987 at Camp Lejeune, NC.

Jorge Avila-Torrez sexually assaulted and stabbed to death two girls — Laura Hobbs, 8, and Krystal Tobias, 9 — who had been riding their bicycles in their neighborhood in a suburb north of Chicago in 2005.

Four years later, he strangled naval officer Amanda Snell, 20, inside her barrack in Arlington, Va.

Iouri Mikhel, another clemency recipient, was convicted of murdering five Russian and Georgian immigrants after kidnapping them for ransom, which in some cases was paid before he killed them anyway.

Kaboni Savage, meanwhile, was convicted of committing or ordering the deaths of 12 people including four children as a Philadelphia drug dealer — while James Roane, Jr. participated in the murder of 11 people as a drug dealer in Richmond, Va.

Three men on federal death row did not get a commutation: Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who along with his brother killed three people in 2013; Robert Bowers, who killed 11 at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018; and Dylann Roof, who killed nine black Charleston churchgoers in 2015.

Biden has often flexed his presidential clemency powers in the past month.

The retiring president on Dec. 1 issued a blanket pardon for his own son Hunter Biden, 54 — wiping the slate of his June conviction of three federal gun felonies and his September guilty plea to $1.4 million in tax fraud from foreign business dealings in which he repeatedly involved his father.

Biden also commuted the sentences of nearly 1,500 people on Dec. 12 who had been temporarily released from prison during the COVID-19 pandemic — including Josephine Gray, the “Black Widow” who killed two of her ex-husbands and a third lover, and Rita Crundwell, who as comptroller of Dixon, Ill., stole nearly $54 million from the 15,000-person town over two decades.

Lord Garth submitted the same article, commenting none will be released, they will be incarcerated for life.

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Government Corruption

Biden Mulls Commuting Sentences of All 40 Federal Death Row Inmates After Trump Promises to Accelerate Federal Executions

2024-12-22

Joe Biden can’t remember to put his pants on with the zipper in front without assistance. No way is he mulling any of the details of the job he’s been mentally incompetent to perform since 2020. So who in his group of puppet masters is actually pondering this stuff?

[THEGATEWAYPUNDIT] Joe Biden may commute the sentences of all 40 federal death row inmates after pressure from more than 130 human and 'civil rights' groups.

This is after Biden commuted the sentences of 1,500 people and pardoned 39 others — the biggest single-day act of clemency in history, the AP reported.

Biden also pardoned his son, Hunter, who was convicted of felony gun crimes after he promised he would respect the jury's verdict.

President Trump has promised to accelerate federal executions so Joe Biden is likely going to commute their sentences in an effort to derail Trump's plans.

Trump's DOJ signed off on 13 federal executions during Trump's first term.

The 40 inmates on death row have been convicted of heinous crimes and gruesome murders.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon bomber, Dylann Roof, the man who fatally shot 9 parishioners at a church in South Carolina, and Robert Bowers, the man who carried out a mass shooting at Tree of Life Synagogue, are all currently on death row.

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US court demands jury testing in Tsarnaev case

2024-03-23

Memory Hole spits one back.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

[KavkazUzel] An appeals court in the United States has demanded that the objectivity of two jurors who participated in sentencing Chechen native Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
...the pretty, ethnic-Chechen college boy from Dagestan who, with his highly connected, “self-radicalized” older brother, used pressure cooker bombs to blow up the Boston Marathon in 2013. The mosque the brothers frequented, the Islamic Society of Boston, is a hotbed of jihadi sentiment and connections to so many different jihadi groups and individuals the mind boggles. It was founded by Clinton Friend and Al Qaeda financier Abdurahman Alamoudi as a Muslim Student Association/Muslim Brotherhood project in 1981. According to Russian intelligence, whose warning about our lads President Obama’s intelligence agencies ignored until afterward, the Tsarnaev boys had lots of jihadi-connected friends back in the Olde Countrie, too, but nobody seems to have found a formal connection between them and any registered jihadi group. He’s been living in Florence Supermax prison since he was sentenced in 2015...
to death in the Boston bombing case be examined.

As the "Caucasian Knot" wrote, in July 2020, an appeals court in the United States overturned the decision on the death penalty and decided to review the sentence of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The court cited possible bias in the jury chosen in Boston, where the attack took place. On March 4, 2022, the US Supreme Court upheld Tsarnaev's death sentence. The execution of the sentence was postponed until the appeal was considered, the lawyer said in August 2022.

The US Court of Appeal has ordered an investigation into possible jury bias in the case of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. This could lead to a revision of the death sentence, Reuters reports today, the publication of which drew the attention of Kommersant.

The court in Boston did not grant Tsarnaev's appeal to overturn his conviction, but returned the case to the trial court, concluding that the defendant's complaints about jury bias were not properly investigated during the previous trial. Tsarnaev argued that two jurors lied when they said they did not discuss the case on social media before the trial began.
Notice the absence of the Hajji convert Katherine Russell, wife of the late Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Vanished, never to be seen or heard from again.
The appeals court hearing was held on March 21, at which the court ordered the judge who presided over the trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to find out whether two jurors were biased.
New trial? No, Biden pardon likely. Hajji vote urgently needed in upcoming presidential election.
The district judge said that if the trial judge concluded that either juror should be disqualified, Tsarnaev would be entitled to a new trial, the release said.

Whatever. But in the end he helped his dead brother do it.

Let us remind you that the brothers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan "Speedbump" Tsarnaev, according to American intelligence services, organized a terrorist attack during the Boston Marathon on July 15, 2013. As a result of the double explosion, three people were killed and 180 were injured, according to the Caucasian Knot report “ Terrorist attack in Boston: Caucasian trace.”

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed during detention, and a court in Boston sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death on June 25, 2015, after which he was sent to a maximum security prison, according to the biography of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev posted on the "Caucasian Knot".

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Ten Years After the Boston Marathon Bombing, No One Dares Discuss Why It Happened

2023-04-16

BLUF:
[PJ] "I ask Allah to have mercy on me, my brother, and my family," Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
...the pretty, ethnic-Chechen college boy from Dagestan who, with his highly connected, “self-radicalized” older brother, used pressure cooker bombs to blow up the Boston Marathon in 2013. The mosque the brothers frequented, the Islamic Society of Boston, is a hotbed of jihadi sentiment and connections to so many different jihadi groups and individuals the mind boggles. It was founded by Clinton Friend and Al Qaeda financier Abdurahman Alamoudi as a Muslim Student Association/Muslim Brotherhood project in 1981. According to Russian intelligence, whose warning about our lads President Obama’s intelligence agencies ignored until afterward, the Tsarnaev boys had lots of jihadi-connected friends back in the Olde Countrie, too, but nobody seems to have found a formal connection between them and any registered jihadi group. He’s been living in Florence Supermax prison since he was sentenced in 2015...
said in 2015. He gave every indication of being a pious believer, as was his brother, and of this piety being the foundational motivation for the Boston Marathon bombings. So why is there such a universal refusal to discuss the bombers’ motives? Because Islamic advocacy groups in the U.S., notably the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), have successfully convinced the Leftist political and media establishment that informing the public honestly about jihad activity would fuel a dangerous "Islamophobia."

There is no reason why this should be so any more than it is in any other context. Does the Biden regime refrain from speaking about their phantom bogeyman, "white supremacist terror," because innocent white people might be victimized? Of course not. And the same forthrightness should hold for actual threats just as much as for imaginary ones. Otherwise, no lessons will indeed have been learned from the Boston Marathon bombing.

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-Land of the Free

'Special' service: Declassified Guantanamo court filing suggests some 9/11 hijackers were CIA agents

2023-04-14

[RT] An explosive court filing from the Guantanamo Military Commission — a court considering the cases of defendants accused of carrying out the "9/11" terrorist attacks on New York — has seemingly confirmed the unthinkable.
"Unthinkable" to some possibly.
The document was originally published via a Guantanamo Bay court docket, but while public, it was completely redacted. Independent researchers obtained an unexpurgated copy. It is an account by the Commission’s lead investigator, DEA veteran Don Canestraro, of his personal probe of potential Saudi government involvement in the 9/11 attacks, conducted at the request of the defendants’ lawyers.

Two of the hijackers were being closely monitored by the CIA and may, wittingly or not, have been recruited by Langley long before they flew planes into the World Trade Center buildings.
Tamerlan Tsarnaev or Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to the white courtesy phone please. Tamerlan or Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

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Notorious ISIS 'Beatle' AVOIDS spending life sentence in 'concrete box' at Colorado supermax prison: Killer, 34, who slaughtered four US hostages is sent to 'softer' jail as lawyers plead for his mental health

2022-09-27

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news]

El Shafee Elsheikh,

...“George” from the London ‘hood. He was born in Sudan, and he is not at all a nice man — the rest is only vicious detail. The British government stripped him both of British citizenship and protections when they cast him on the bosom of American law, asking only that he not get the death penalty...

34, will not go to what's known as a 'concrete box' at the ADX Florence prison in Colorado but a less restrictive prison on the same site

At USP Florence High — at the same site — Elsheikh will live among a general prison population rather than spend 23 hours a day in solitary confinement

Elsheikh received eight life sentences after committing 'some of the most barbaric terrorist acts ever seen' as part of the twisted 'ISIS Beatles' group

They captured, tortured and killed a group of journalists and aid workers in Syria in 2014

Other prisoners who have spent time at Florence High include Boston Marathon Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Green River serial killer, Gary Ridgway

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

A resident of Dagestan is suspected in the case of terrorism

2022-04-23

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A 19-year-old resident of the Tarumovsky district is suspected of using the Internet to study the rules for handling weapons and making explosive devices to participate in terrorist activities, investigators reported today.

According to investigators, in October 2020, the suspect was trained in handling firearms, explosive devices and explosives. The investigation suggested that he studied videos on the Internet and social networks that showed various types of firearms and the rules for handling them, as well as methods for making improvised explosive devices, the Dagestan Sledkom Department said today.

The young man is also being investigated for illegal trafficking in an improvised explosive device. "The issue of choosing a measure of restraint is being decided," the ministry's website said in a statement.

Article 205.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for from 15 to 20 years in prison, article 222.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illicit trafficking in explosive devices) - from six to eight years in prison. There were no comments from the detainee or his official representatives regarding the version of the investigation.

The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on April 19, the FSB reported on the detention of suspects in the underground modernization of weapons and their sale in 33 regions, including Dagestan, Ingushetia, North Ossetia, the Astrakhan region and the Kuban.

They seized 21 machine guns, 55 submachine guns, 230 pistols and revolvers, 224 rifles and carbines, more than 50 kilograms of explosives, 279 detonators, 67 hand grenades, 30 artillery shells, more than 38,000 rounds of ammunition, 100 devices for silent shooting, as well as components of firearms, the FSB said.

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Olde Tyme Religion

Pro-Palestinian protesters allegedly attack man with Israeli flag in New York

2022-04-23

[IsraelTimes] Demonstrators reportedly approach man with flag during Manhattan rally, punch him in the face; police say they’re investigating case as a possible bias incident

Pro-Paleostinian protesters allegedly assaulted a man holding an Israeli flag during an anti-Israel demonstration in New York City on Wednesday. Police were investigating the case as a possible bias incident.

The 28-year-old victim said he was walking down the street when men from the protest pointed out an Israeli flag he was holding. One of the protesters approached the victim and punched him, knocking him to the ground, then kicked him while he was down. The alleged attack took place at the corner of East 42nd street and Lexington avenue in Manhattan at around 6:15 p.m., a little over an hour after the start of the protest.

The victim was treated for swelling, bruising and redness to the face.

The suspect is a man around 5 feet 10 inches tall, 170 pounds, with short brown hair, police told The Times of Israel.

The New York Police Department’s Hate Crimes Unit was notified.

The Wednesday protest began near the Israeli consulate in Manhattan. Activist groups including Within Our Lifetime, Samoudin and the Paleostinian Youth Movement organized the event. Around 100 demonstrators carried Paleostinian flags and chanted, "Globalize the intifada," "We don’t want no two states, we want all of it," "Israel, go to hell," and "From the river to the sea." They also stomped on and burned an Israeli flag.

For Israelis, intifada, literally meaning "uprising" in Arabic, conjures traumatic memories of a mass wave of terror attacks in the early 2000s. The period saw suicide kabooms and other terror attacks in Israel that killed hundreds of civilians. "From the river to the sea" is widely regarded as a call to destroy the Jewish state.

Members of the fringe anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox Neturei Karta group were in attendance. The group regularly participates in anti-Israel rallies in the area.

A small group of pro-Israeli counter-protesters led by the Yad Yamin group gathered across from the Israeli consulate under police protection. They held signs with pictures of Israelis killed in recent terror attacks, waved Israeli flags and argued with pro-Paleostinian demonstrators.

Around a dozen police separated the two groups.

The pro-Paleostinian groups hold regular rallies in New York, including a demonstration at the end of last month, and another one planned for later this month. At last month’s protest, the demonstrators marched to the offices of Jewish and Israel-linked organizations to protest outside, and distributed maps with the locations of 18 Jewish and Israeli offices to protest participants.

In December, a 21-year-old man was attacked in Brooklyn for wearing an Israel Defense Forces sweatshirt.

Jews are targeted in hate crimes more than any other group in New York City, by far, year after year. Anti-Jewish attacks accounted for 38 percent of all confirmed hate crimes in New York City last year, according to NYPD statistics. Antisemitic hate crimes are soaring this year. Last month, there were 23 antisemitic attacks, representing a 92% increase over the same period last year.

Jews are the victims of 47% of all confirmed incidents in the city since the start of the year. The antisemitic incidents include assaults on city streets against visibly identifiable Jews, racist graffiti, property damage, and verbal abuse. Most attacks take place in Brooklyn.

In other Jew-hating news:

AU Muslim student group withdraws from interfaith seder over Hillel Israel support
[IsraelTimes] American University’s Moslem Student Association

...a youth wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in North America...

pulls out as co-sponsor an interfaith Passover and Ramadan event amid festivities on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem

Hillel is a national organization that provides non-denominational Jewish fellowship at colleges and universities across America. Most chapters, but not all, support Israel.

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Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Resident of Dagestan is suspected of involvement in extremists

2022-04-22

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[KavkazUzel] A 35-year-old resident of Dagestan participated in a meeting of the banned religious association "Nurdzhular,"

...apparently the Russian rendering of the Turkish expression “Nurcular,” meaning “followers of Nursi.” The reference is to Turkish Sufi Muslim theologian Said Nursi (1877–1960), who was a fierce critic of atheism and secular humanism. Russia’s Supreme Court banned the group in 2008. Russian authorities supposedly believe the organization to be banned in Turkey, and to be a tool of Turkish and American intelligence...

investigators say.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that 1,967 residents of Dagestan are on the wanted list as members of international terrorist organizations, Interior Minister Abdurashid Magomedov said at a session of the People's Assembly on March 31.

A case was initiated against a 35-year-old resident of Dagestan under the article on participation in the activities of an extremist organization (Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code). The man is suspected of involvement in the activities of the international religious association "Nurdzhular" *, reported today the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Dagestan.

"Participation in the activities of an extremist organization" provides for up to six years deprivation freedom.

According to investigators, from 2016 to April 2017, a resident of Dagestan participated in the activities of the international religious association Nurcular,

...which has millions of followers around the globe, especially in Turkey, has been banned in Russia since 2008. They want a Turkic caliphate comprising those regions of the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Russia's North Caucasus and Volga regions...

which since April 10, 2008 has been banned by the Russian Supreme Court as extremist.

The suspect "participated in meetings to study the ideological sources of the specified extremist organization" in order to continue the illegal activities of the religious association, according to a message published today on the website of the Dagestan Department of the ICR.

Earlier, the "Caucasian Knot" also reported that, according to investigators, a 38-year-old resident of Izberbash joined the ranks of the international religious association "Nurcular" and studied extremist ideology.

Resident of Dagestan sentenced to 12 years in terrorism case

[KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don found Magomed Ramazanov, a resident of Dagestan, guilty of preparing explosions and attacks on security forces in Makhachkala and sentenced him to 12 years in prison.

The "Caucasian Knot" has reported that on December 25, four alleged members of a cell of the "Islamic State" terrorist organization, banned in Russia by a court, were detained in Dagestan, they were suspected of preparing an explosion and an attack on security officials. They found weapons, an explosive device and ammunition, and in their mobile phones - correspondence with coordinators from abroad. On December 28, 2020, the court decided to detain four detainees for two months.

Magomed Ramazanov, a resident of Dagestan, was accused of participating in the activities of a terrorist organization, organizing an illegal armed group and a terrorist community, preparing to commit a terrorist attack, the press service of the Southern District Military Court reported today.

According to the investigators and the court, on December 20, Magomed Ramazanov took the oath of allegiance to the head of the Islamic State * by recording a video message on his mobile phone. On December 25, 2020, Ramazanov, together with three members of the illegal armed group he created, purchased firearms, ammunition, explosive devices, knives, which were stored in caches in the village of Agachaul and in Makhachkala.

They also developed a plan to carry out explosions on December 31, 2020 in Makhachkala, photographed and videotaped approaches to administrative buildings, made maps, indicating the objects that were supposed to be blown up, escape routes, to carry out the plan, placed the detention, the message on the Telegram channel says. court.

Ramazanov was found guilty and sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime colony and a fine of 350,000 rubles, the press service of the court said.

The date of sentencing was not specified in the message. The section "Courtwork" on the website of the Southern District Military Court is unavailable at 16.44 Moscow time. "The information is temporarily unavailable. We apologize. Try to apply later or go directly to the court," the court's website says.

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-Land of the Free

Moving moment brother of boy, 8, who was youngest victim of 2013 Boston Marathon bombing completes race in honor of his murdered sibling

2022-04-19

[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]

Henry Richard, 20, completed the race for the first time since his brother's death

Martin Richard was only eight-years-old when he was killed nine years ago - the youngest of three people killed in the Boston terror attack

Henry and Martin's sister Jane also lost her leg in the terror attack

Two other people and another 263 participants were injured from the incident

'I did it for both of us, and my sister, and the rest of my family…I love this city…This is Boston Strong.' Henry said after completing the race in four hours

Among 28,000 other participants, the Pace University student ran the marathon with his siblings' names written on each side of his arms

Martin would have been 18-years-old in June this year and has a park named after him in Boston

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Boston Marathon survivors reflect, share outrage over convicted bomber collecting COVID-19 funds

2022-04-18

[FoxNews] Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received a stimulus check while in federal prison and nearly escaped a death sentence

As the city of Boston and survivors of the 2013 marathon bombing reflected on the ninth anniversary of the deadly terror attack last week, some spoke out about a federal criminal justice system that has allowed the convicted bomber to collect COVID-19 relief money and other funds as he appeals his death sentence.

Robert Wheeler, a participant in the Boston Marathon who was hailed as a hero for literally giving the shirt off his back to aid victims of the blast, told Fox News that April 15 "still remains as profound and mixed of emotions as the day of my first marathon in 2013."

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, convicted of coordinating the attack with brother Tamerlan Tsarnaev, is locked up in a maximum federal prison in Florence, Colorado. The brothers planted two homemade pressure-cooker bombs that killed three people – two women and an 8-year-old boy — and injured over 260 others. Seventeen of those injured lost at least one limb in the attack.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted on 30 terrorism charges and sentenced to death on six of them. A federal court later reversed the death sentence, but the U.S. Supreme Court in March reinstated the punishment in a 6-3 vote.

Tsarnaev was tried, convicted and sentenced to death. He was also ordered to pay $101 million in restitution to the victims.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed in a shootout with police amid a days-long manhunt. A Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority officer was shot and a Massachusetts Institute of Technology police officer was killed during the gunfight.

Despite the surviving Tsarnaev being ordered to pay millions of dollars in fines, victims have seen little in compensation. In addition, he received a $1,400 COVID relief payment while incarcerated in the summer of 2021.

In January, a federal judge ordered the Federal Bureau of Prisons to turn over Tsarnaev's stimulus check and funds in his inmate trust to pay victims.

On Friday, the ninth anniversary of the attack, elected officials and residents remembered those who died.

This year's race will be held Monday.

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