By . Associated  Press Reporter . A Massachusetts man who knew the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings was charged on Friday with obstructing the investigation into the deadly bombings. Khairullozhon Matanov, 23, of Quincy, destroyed, altered and falsified records in a federal investigation, and made false statements in a federal investigation, federal prosecutors said. Matanov, a legal resident of the U.S. originally from Kyrgyzstan, is not accused of participating in the bombings or of knowing about them in advance. Khairullozhon Matanov, 23, of Quincy, Massachusetts, and friend of Tamerlan, right, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, left, is accused of destroying, altering and falsifying records in a federal investigation . He is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Boston on Friday afternoon. Matanov knew Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and in the days after the April 2013 bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260, Matanov realized the FBI would want to talk with him because he shared their 'philosophical justification for violence,' prosecutors said. He talked to the brothers on numerous occasions after the bombings, and even took them out to dinner the day of the explosions, they said. 'In the days following the bombings, Matanov continued to express support for the bombings, although later that week he said that maybe the bombings were wrong,' the indictment said. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, left, has pleaded not guilty to several federal charges and is awaiting trial, while Tamerlan Tsarnaev, right, was killed during a gunbattle with police four days after the bombings . Forensic: Investigators survey the site of a bomb blast on Boylston Street a day after two explosions hit the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts on April 16, 2013 . He tried to contact the brothers after he saw media reports identifying them as the suspects, prosecutors said. Matanov deleted information regarding the brothers from his computer, including internet searches, they said. He also allegedly asked a friend to destroy his cellphones, but that friend refused. And he repeatedly lied to investigators about the extent of his friendship with the Tsarnaev brothers, prosecutors said. The brothers, ethnic Chechens who lived in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and the Dagestan region of Russia, settled in the United States more than a decade ago. Deadly: Runners continue to run towards the finish line of the Boston Marathon as an explosion erupts near the finish line of the race in this photo taken as the second of two devices detonated on April 15, 2013 . Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, has pleaded not guilty to several federal charges and is awaiting trial. Prosecutors allege he and his brother planted two pressure cooker bombs near the marathon's finish line. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed during a gunbattle with police four days after the bombings.
Khairullozhon Matanov, 23, of Quincy, Massachusetts, is accused of destroying, altering and falsifying records in a federal investigation .
Prosecutors say he shared the 'philosophical justification for violence' of his friends Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev .
He took the brothers out for dinner the day after the Boston Marathon bombing in April 2013 .
Matanov is also accused of deleting information regarding the brothers from his computer, including internet searches .
He also repeatedly lied to investigators about the extent of his friendship with the Tsarnaev brothers .
By . Associated  Press Reporter . A Massachusetts man who knew the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings was charged on Friday with obstructing the investigation into the deadly bombings. Khairullozhon Matanov, 23, of Quincy, destroyed, altered and falsified records in a federal investigation, and made false statements in a federal investigation, federal prosecutors said. Matanov, a legal resident of the U.S. originally from Kyrgyzstan, is not accused of participating in the bombings or of knowing about them in advance. Khairullozhon Matanov, 23, of Quincy, Massachusetts, and friend of Tamerlan, right, and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, left, is accused of destroying, altering and falsifying records in a federal investigation . He is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Boston on Friday afternoon. Matanov knew Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, and in the days after the April 2013 bombings that killed three people and injured more than 260, Matanov realized the FBI would want to talk with him because he shared their 'philosophical justification for violence,' prosecutors said. He talked to the brothers on numerous occasions after the bombings, and even took them out to dinner the day of the explosions, they said. 'In the days following the bombings, Matanov continued to express support for the bombings, although later that week he said that maybe the bombings were wrong,' the indictment said. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, left, has pleaded not guilty to several federal charges and is awaiting trial, while Tamerlan Tsarnaev, right, was killed during a gunbattle with police four days after the bombings . Forensic: Investigators survey the site of a bomb blast on Boylston Street a day after two explosions hit the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts on April 16, 2013 . He tried to contact the brothers after he saw media reports identifying them as the suspects, prosecutors said. Matanov deleted information regarding the brothers from his computer, including internet searches, they said. He also allegedly asked a friend to destroy his cellphones, but that friend refused. And he repeatedly lied to investigators about the extent of his friendship with the Tsarnaev brothers, prosecutors said. The brothers, ethnic Chechens who lived in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan and the Dagestan region of Russia, settled in the United States more than a decade ago. Deadly: Runners continue to run towards the finish line of the Boston Marathon as an explosion erupts near the finish line of the race in this photo taken as the second of two devices detonated on April 15, 2013 . Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 20, has pleaded not guilty to several federal charges and is awaiting trial. Prosecutors allege he and his brother planted two pressure cooker bombs near the marathon's finish line. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, was killed during a gunbattle with police four days after the bombings.
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