Jeffrey you said :"Crime is rampant in America"
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Yeah and our leader is linked to some of it, once again!
12/10 15:03 CORRECTED - NY man who gave
Paula Jones $1 mln named in murder
plot -2-
In NEW YORK story headlined "NY man who gave Paula Jones $1 mln
named in murder" please change headline to read ... "NY man who gave
Paula Jones $1 mln named in murder plot" ...(makes clear case concerns a
plot, not an actual murder).
By Jeanne King
NEW YORK, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Quirky real estate developer Abe
Hirschfeld, who offered Paula Jones $1 million to settle her sexual
harassment lawsuit against President Clinton, has been charged with
plotting to have a partner murdered, prosecutors said on Thursday.
Hirschfeld, 79, tried two years ago to arrange the contract killing of Stanley
Stahl, 73, according to the indictment presented by Manhattan District
Attorney Robert Morgenthau.
The two men, business partners for 40 years, have been entangled in legal
battles in recent years.
The district attorney said Hirschfeld had an intermediary deliver $75,000 in
cash -- half of an alleged agreed-upon fee to kill Stahl -- to another person
whom he would not identify.
Hirschfeld later had photos of Stahl and other information delivered by
means of the intermediary, who tipped off Stahl to the plot on his life,
Morgenthau said. The intermediary also was not identified.
Stahl alerted authorities, Morgenthau said.
Hirschfeld, who made millions of dollars building parking garages in New
York City, briefly owned the New York Post in 1993 and later published a
short-lived afternoon newspaper.
In October, he gave Jones a $1 million check which he said she could cash
if she dropped her case against Clinton. Jones had accused Clinton of
harassing her in 1991 when he was Arkansas governor and she was a state
employee.
Lawyers for Clinton and Jones settled the lawsuit in November with an
agreement that he pay her $850,000 but make no apology or admission of
wrongdoing. The lawyers said as part of the deal the Hirschfeld offer was no
longer on the table.
Morgenthau said Hirschfeld was indicted for criminal solicitation, punishable
by a prison term of up to seven years.
"I think there is a very strong case here," Morgenthau said at a news
conference.
Asked if the alleged plot was serious, Morgenthau said: "I wouldn't be too
happy if someone paid $150,000 to have me knocked off."
Hirschfeld, in custody, was scheduled to be arraigned later in the day.
Morgenthau said he would seek bail of $2.5 million.
The unpredictable Hirschfeld had agreed to turn himself in to authorities on
Wednesday morning but failed to show up and fired his attorney,
Morgenthau said.
Police arrested him just before midnight Wednesday at his Fifth Avenue
home.
He is already under indictment for state income tax fraud and had been free
on a $1 million bond. He pleaded not guilty to charges he failed to pay taxes
over a six-year period.
Part of the two partners' legal wrangling was Hirschfeld's claim that Stahl did
not like to rent property to black people. Stahl denied the charges.
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