Friend of marathon bomber expected to plead guilty
By The Associated Press
BOSTON (AP) _ A friend of the Boston Marathon bomber is expected to plead guilty to a reduced charge of lying to the FBI.
Khairullozhon Matanov, a cab driver from Quincy, is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Boston on Tuesday for a change of plea hearing.
He had been charged with lying and with deleting information from his computer.
Matanov’s lawyer, Paul Glickman, has not said if Matanov plans to testify in the ongoing death penalty trial of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Matanov, a native of Kyrgyzstan, was a close friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev and an acquaintance of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Prosecutors said he deceived authorities when questioned about his relationship with Tamerlan Tsarnaev in the days after the April 2013 bombings.
His lawyers say he went to police voluntarily.
(C) The Associated Press 2015
