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Boston Marathon bombing defendant Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s lawyers were kicked out of Russia for pretending to be tourists and impersonating Federal Bureau of Investigation agents during interviews, U.S. prosecutors said.
The Russian government notified the U.S. that three visiting lawyers, who weren’t named, also refused to confirm their legal status while conducting their investigation, prosecutors said in a filing yesterday in Boston federal court. The U.S. government’s claim comes as defense lawyers seek to delay the trial, set for this year, until September 2015.
“At least some of Tsarnaev’s problems in conducting an overseas investigation arguably are of his own making,” prosecutors said.
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Tsarnaev’s lawyers have never denied he carried out the attack on the Boston Marathon. The defense has said in court papers they will attempt to pin most of the blame on his older brother, Tamerlan, who died in a police shootout in the days after the attack. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was 26 when he died, was radicalized by Islamic extremism and influenced his brother, who looked up to him, the defense has said.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-09-12/boston-bomb-lawyers-impersonated-fbi-in-russia-u-dot-s-dot-says
Bomb Suspect’s Lawyers Impersonated FBI in Russia: U.S
By Erik Larson
September 13, 2014
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