United States v. Phillipos

BARRON, Circuit Judge.

On October 28, 2014, Robel Phillipos was convicted under 18 U.S.C. § 1001(a)(2) on two counts of making false statements to federal authorities in the weeks following the Boston Marathon bombing. The bombing occurred on April 15, 2013. The statements related to Phillipos’s possible participation, three days later, in the removal and disposal of a backpack thought to contain evidence related to the attack from the college dormitory room of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the bombing suspects and a'Mend of the defendant’s at college. Phil-lipos was sentenced to three years’…