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  • August 2008

    • NY Cops Bust Bizarre Hit Job

      New York Daily News  |  Aug 22, 08 5:15 PM CDT

      NY Cops Bust Bizarre Hit Job

      (Newser) - A Brooklyn man was arrested yesterday for attempting to get a hit man to kill his wife—and retrieve the $27,000 wedding ring he had given her, the New York Daily News reports. Rockefeller Auguste, 35, enraged by jealousy, gave an undercover officer posing as a contract killer a samurai sword and demanded he cut her ring-bearing hand off as proof. More »

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      NYPD  • infidelity  • wife  • killer  • hitman  • hit job  • samurai swords

  • July 2008

    • Fish Toxin Buyer Linked to Murder Plot

      Chicago Tribune  |  Jul 2, 08 3:58 AM CDT

      Fish Toxin Buyer Linked to Murder Plot

      (Newser) - An Illinois man busted trying to buy enough puffer fish toxin to kill dozens of people had been seeking to hire a hit man on the internet to kill a mystery woman, reports the Chicago Tribune . The financial planner sent emails to people offering $8,000 for the murder, authorities said. He was arrested yesterday when police found six empty vials of the deadly puffer fish neurotoxin in his home. More »

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      Illinois  • fish  • poison  • toxin  • murder plot  • hit job  • puffer fish

  • January 2008

    • Bill Accuses Obama of 'Hit Job'

      New York Times  |  Jan 24, 08 7:20 AM CST

      Bill Accuses Obama of 'Hit Job'

      (Newser) - The bitter rivalry between the Clintons and Barack Obama took a toxic new turn yesterday as Bill Clinton, defending himself against accusations of injecting race into the campaign in South Carolina, accused Obama of "putting out a hit job" on him. During questioning by a CNN reporter, the former president accused the media of abetting an Obama strategy to inject race into the political battlefield to hurt him and Hillary. More »

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      Barack Obama  • Hillary Clinton  • Bill Clinton  • Democratic nomination  • race  • South Carolina  • CNN  • hit job

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