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Tsarnaev Friend Matanov Receives Prison Sentence For Misleading Investigators

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In this courtroom sketch, Khairullozhon Matanov is depicted during his sentencing in federal court in Boston Thursday. (Jane Flavell Collins/AP)
In this courtroom sketch, Khairullozhon Matanov is depicted during his sentencing in federal court in Boston Thursday. (Jane Flavell Collins/AP)

All of the friends of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev charged with interfering with a Boston Marathon bombing investigation have now received prison sentences.

WBUR's David Boeri joins Morning Edition to report that a judge has accepted a plea deal Thursday between federal prosecutors and Khairullozhon Matanov, a cab driver from Quincy.

Matanov pleaded guilty in March to misleading the FBI after the 2013 marathon bombings by deleting his computer files and failing to disclose contact he had with the brothers.

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This segment aired on June 19, 2015.

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