A federal inmate has been sentenced to an additional 21 years behind bars for a murder-for-hire plot against an assistant U.S. attorney and a confidential FBI informant.
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Angry at a cheating spouse or jerk boss? While most of us would handle our issues without violence, others look for “hit men” for payback. Enter undercover ATF agents, who bust people who pay to have someone killed or injured, GQ reports. Reporter Jeanne Marie Laskas tagged along with one agent, who…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com Joseph Romano, a convicted con man, wanted revenge for being sentenced to 15 years behind bars. So much so, reports the New York Daily News, that he tried to hire hitmen to torture and decapitate the judge and prosecutor who oversaw his case in New York. An added bonus to the killers:…
By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com A six-year sentence was handed down to Santa Barbara County, Calif., resident Eugene Darryl Temkin, 51, who solicited an FBI informant posing as a “hitman” to murder several individuals, the FBI announced on Monday. A judge found Temkin guilty of soliciting a crime in violence, attempting to interfere with interstate commerce…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com On Thursday, the day 127 people were charged in the largest Mafia roundup in FBI history, a hit man for the late mob Godfather John Gotti pleaded guilty in federal court in New York to arranging the Sept. 11, 1989 murder of a Staten Island businessman Gotti suspected was a snitch,…
