Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's UMass pal Robel Phillipos slated for release today

[TexasTowelie]

One month after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear Robel Phillipos’ appeal, the second of three former college students convicted for their roles in the coverup of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings is being set free.

Phillipos, 24, of Cambridge, was scheduled to be released today from a residential re-entry management program in Philadelphia, after finishing the three-year incarceration portion of his sentence, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Phillipos will remain on supervised release for the next three years.

Phillipos’ character witnesses include former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis. Dukakis, whose wife, Kitty, worked with Phillipos’ mother, Genet Bekele, a licensed social worker, sent a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Douglas P. Woodlock prior to Phillipos’ 2015 sentencing, calling him “a fine young man” who “could have a great future in public service.”

Phillipos was convicted of lying to the FBI about terrorist Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, his childhood friend and classmate at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, after Tsarnaev and his late brother detonated two pressure-cooker bombs in Copley Square, killing three spectators and injuring hundreds others.

Read more: http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_coverage/2018/02/dzhokhar_tsarnaev_s_umass_pal_robel_phillipos_slated_for_release_today

[applegrove]

1. Glad he went away.

[sheshe2]

2. Not sure how I feel about this.

Boston here and despite him being a "fine young man" he aided and abetted two murderers. So many lives changed, so many lost limbs. I watch the marathon every year and see some of them on their amputated legs on prosthetics run the 26 miles to Boston.

It was a horrific day for Boston. I had friends that worked a few door down from the second blast. One went into the street to talk to an officer to help people escape through their store. She stood a few feet away from Martin.