article_snippet: Robel Phillipos, also a friend of Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was convicted in October on two counts of lying to federal agents investigating the 2013 bombing.
article_snippet: Prosecutors said Robel Phillipos lied to investigators about being in Tamerlan Tsarnaev's college dorm room at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth Massachusetts-Dartmouth after the bombings.
article_snippet: Robel Phillipos knew Tamerlan Tsarnaev from high school.
article_snippet: According to court documents, Robel Phillipos hadn't seen or talked to Tamerlan Tsarnaev for at least two months before the bombing.