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Patrick administration refuses to release Tsarnaev brothers' records
[BOSTONHERALD] The Patrick administration clamped down the lid yesterday on Herald requests for details of Tamerlan Tsarnaev's government benefits, citing the dead terror criminal mastermind's right to privacy.Across the board, state agencies flatly refused to provide information about the taxpayer-funded lifestyle for the 26-year-old man and his brother and accused accomplice Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19. On EBT card status or spending, state welfare front man Alec Loftus would only say Tamerlan Tsarnaev, his wife and 3-year-old daughter received benefits that ended in 2012. He declined further comment. On unemployment compensation, labor department front man Kevin Franck refused to say whether Tamerlan Tsarnaev ever collected, saying it was "confidential and not a matter of public record." On Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's college aid, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth front man Robert Connolly said, "It is our position -- and I believe the accepted position in higher education -- that student records including academic records and financial records (including financial aid) cannot under federal law be released without a student's consent." On cellphones, the Federal Communications Commission would not say whether either brother had a government-paid cellphone, also citing privacy laws. Posted by: Fred 2013-04-26 |
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