The Bomber Brothers and their families received $100,000 in benefits:
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.
Look, I get that it's pretty hard to look at each and every application for benefits to spot the bad eggs, and prevent them from getting taxpayer funds. Could we at least cross-match names against no-fly lists, terrorist watch lists, and maybe folks with extensive criminal records?
Maybe that would be an easy place to start.
