Families of Joseph and Samaru filed a lawsuit against the US government in the District of Massachusetts regarding the October 14, 2025, boat strike.

Posted by Behind the Bastards, Oct 3, 2026Checked Nov 2, 2026

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Behind the BastardsOct 3, 2026

Families of Chad Joseph and Rishi Samaroo (the post's 'Samaru') sued the US government in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts over the October 14, 2025 boat strike, with the suit filed January 27, 2026. The post's spelling 'Samaru' is a variant of Samaroo, and the filing date is not in the claim, so both are peripheral.

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… Joseph's grandfather characterized the strike as a quote act of evil. End quote They seemingly had no connection with drug trafficking other than Joseph's uncle being a quote unquote drug lord for the TNT Guardian. Per a lawsuit filed by the families of Joseph and Samaru against the US. Government in the District of Massachusetts, Samaru was working on a farm in Venezuela and had called his sister days before he was killed to let her know that he had found a ride to Trinidad. Similarly, Joseph had told his wife he had found a boat ride from Venezuela back home and would see her in a couple of days. They never arrived. Per Air wars, Dushak Mirovich, from Guiria, was also one of the men killed during that strike. …

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Supports. AP and Reuters both report that families of the two Trinidadian men killed in the October 14 strike sued the federal government on Tuesday, January 27, 2026, in Boston's federal court.[1][2]

Supports. CBS News reports the 23-page complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts by Joseph's mother and Samaroo's sister, naming the U.S. as defendant.[4]

Supports. Syracuse law review, Bloomberg Law, ABC affiliate and TPM coverage independently describe the same Massachusetts federal suit over the October 14, 2025 strike that killed Joseph and Samaroo.[3][5][6][7]

Context. The post's 'Samaru' is the same man as Samaroo in the coverage, a spelling variant. The claim's details otherwise match the post's own wording, so no addition or departure from the passage was found.[2][3]

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7 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 1 primary, 1 tier 2, 3 not rated

1Families of boat strike victims sue Trump administration | AP Newsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
2Trump administration sued over 2 deaths in boat strike off ...reuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports, context
3Families File First Lawsuit Over Trump-Era Boat Strikes ...lawreview.syr.edu · primary source · cited for: supports, context
4Families of 2 men killed in Caribbean boat strike sue U.S ...cbsnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
5Family of Military Boat Strike Victims Sue Over Deaths (1)news.bloomberglaw.com · not rated · cited for: supports
6Families sue Trump administration over deadly US boat ...abcnews4.com · not rated · cited for: supports
7Family of Men Killed in Venezuelan Boat Strikes Sue Trump Admin for Damagestalkingpointsmemo.com · not rated · cited for: supports

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