Wife of Chechen man FBI killed is charged

The estranged wife of a Chechen man who was fatally shot while being questioned in Florida about a Boston Marathon bombing suspect has been charged with making a false statement to the FBI. The indictment accuses Reniya Manukyan of falsely telling a federal investigator that an “individual with whom she had associated” returned on a bus from Massachusetts to Atlanta in 2011, two years before the bombing. In fact, she had driven the person from New York to Atlanta, according to the federal indictment filed last week. The day in 2013 after she was questioned in Atlanta, her husband, Ibraghim Todashev, was killed by an FBI agent at his Orlando apartment. The FBI says Todashev became violent, though his family claims it was a wrongful death. FBI agents were interviewing Todashev as they looked into the background of bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. Todashev and Tsarnaev had been friends through mixedmartial arts circles when Todashev lived in Boston.