Conservative Republican State Senator Greg Ball, the same guy who made national news last year when he tweeted that Boston -
marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev should be tortured, despite that he is an American citizen.
Ball has had a colorful career in Albany, and naturally garnered his own level of controversy including feuds with Assemblyman Steve Katz, suggesting on Twitter the Boston
marathon bombing suspect should be tortured and saying a dead goat found at his home was a warning from the gang MS - 13.
Although information is still emerging about their exact connections to the Russian regions of Chechnya and Dagestan, early reporting suggests that Boston
marathon bombing suspects Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev may be of Chechen origin and may have grown up partially in neighboring Dagestan, The Washington Post reports.
Not exact matches
The brothers are
suspected of planting
bombs at the Boston
marathon in an attack that killed three people and injured more than 200 others.
Since the
bombings, people have been speculating that Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev — the two brothers
suspected of the Boston
marathon bombing attack that killed three people and injured about 260 others — were tied to the killings.
A friend of Todashev has said he had lived in Boston and knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, the older of the two brothers
suspected of planting two
bombs at the
marathon on April 15, killing three people and injuring 264.
The father of the two
suspects told Channel 4 News on 21 April that the FBI had phoned Tamerlan in the days after the Boston
marathon bombings.
Cuomo phoned in to The Capitol Pressroom this morning as the world's attention is focused on Boston and the manhunt for the second
suspect in the Boston
marathon bombing (Mayor Michael Bloomberg cancelled a radio appearance, while Sen. Lee Zeldin's news conference on insurance reform was also postponed because of the events in Massachusetts).
Investigators in Boston this week quickly began sifting through more than two thousand videos and still images of the
marathon route looking for potential
suspects in
bombing, with crowd sourcing becoming the newest tool in the arsenal of law enforcement agencies.
Within hours of two
bombs going off at the finishing line of the Boston
marathon, self - appointed sleuths were poring over images posted on social media looking for
suspects.