At a Massachusetts sports agency, attorney Derege Demissie has built a practice representing marathon runners. Now the Ethiopian immigrant has taken up another jobas counsel to a man who allegedly aided Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
Demissie, an attorney at Apex Athletics Agency in Cambridge, Mass., on Wednesday made his first court appearance in Boston’s U.S. district courthouse on behalf of Tsarnaev friend Robel Phillipos. Investigators said Phillipos initially lied about visiting Tsarnaev’s college dorm room on the night of April 18, three days after the bombing.
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