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发帖数: 29846 | 1 Tsarnaev family received $100G in benefits
Monday, April 29, 2013
Author(s):
Chris Cassidy
The Tsarnaev family, including the suspected terrorists and their parents,
benefited from more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded assistance — a bonanza
ranging from cash and food stamps to Section 8 housing from 2002 to 2012,
the Herald has learned.
“The breadth of the benefits the family was receiving was stunning,” said
a person with knowledge of documents handed over to a legislative committee
today.
The state has handed over more than 500 documents to the 11-member House
Post Audit and Oversight Committee, which today met for the first time and
plans to call in officials from the Department of Transitional Assistance to
testify.
“I can assure members of the public that this committee will actively
review every single piece of information we can find because clearly the
public has a substantial right to know what benefits, if any, this family or
individuals accused of some horrific crimes were receiving,” said state
Rep. David Linsky (D-Natick), the committee’s chairman.
Linsky’s committee has requested documents from the DTA, the state’s
Medicaid director and Health and Human Services Secretary John Polanowicz.
But so far the committee has not released the records publicly, citing a
privilege the DTA is asserting under state law.
Transitional assistance officials also told the Herald tonight that the
agency was conducting its own investigation into whether Tamerlan Tsarnaev’
s family ever notified the DTA about his extended trip to Russia, and has
since expanded its probe to include a full history of the benefits received
by the entire Tsarnaev family. |
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