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ID Thief Tries To Get Witnesses Whacked 168

adeelarshad82 writes "Pavel Valkovich of Sherman Oaks, CA has pleaded guilty to solicitation of murder, admitting that he attempted to hire hit-men to kill witnesses working with Federal authorities in their investigation of Valkovich's ID theft activities and subsequent crimes. According to the Justice Department: '...Valkovich and others had stolen personal identifying information and used that information to transfer funds from victims' bank accounts to PayPal accounts.'"
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ID Thief Tries To Get Witnesses Whacked

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  • by Sarten-X ( 1102295 ) on Monday December 14, 2009 @06:25AM (#30429342) Homepage

    ...his identity must have been stolen!

  • by Thanshin ( 1188877 ) on Monday December 14, 2009 @06:33AM (#30429374)

    Valkovich will face a statutory maximum of 50 years in prison: 20 years for the murder-for-hire and 30 years for the bank fraud

    On further investigation, a new fact has been discovered. When Valkovich was hiring the assassin, he was simultaneously copying his cds to a usb player. The sentence has been changed to death penalty of him, his entire family, and everybody in the same neighborhood with a name starting with a V, or a W.

  • The authorities learned of the murder-for-hire plot, charged him with it and transferred him to a different jail facility, There he approach[ed] yet another individual and proposed that he kill both the original witness and the person Valkovich had attempted to hire for the first hit.

    A minor setback, really--- clearly he's now just in need of a fourth person willing to commit three murders for hire...

  • by Rogerborg ( 306625 ) on Monday December 14, 2009 @07:57AM (#30429676) Homepage
    Didn't Joshua Lincoln bring the laws on stone tablets down from a burning ark on Mount Rushmore? I'm pretty sure that's what I was taught in Civics 101.
  • by Rufty ( 37223 ) on Monday December 14, 2009 @09:18AM (#30430070) Homepage
    Actual murder would get, what, 10 years, tops?
  • by Thanshin ( 1188877 ) on Monday December 14, 2009 @09:49AM (#30430290)

    A minor setback, really--- clearly he's now just in need of a fourth person willing to commit three murders for hire...

    That's an example of the classic "putting fires off" mentality.

    A good manager would have sent two assassins for the first target and two more for the assassins themselves. He'd then hire a fifth assassin, of greater skill, to kill whoever was alive at the end of the deals.

    To hire such number of assassins, he'd have probaly created a small HR department. And to recoup from this initial investment, he'd capitalize the already prepared team by subcontracting it to other businesses.

  • by xmundt ( 415364 ) on Monday December 14, 2009 @09:52AM (#30430312)

    Actually, I had an amusing moment in the early 90s as regards this. I got a jury duty notice addressed to my father. Well, I called the court clerk and had a short conversation that went something like this:
            Me: "Hello....I got this notice and I am calling to let you know that he will not be able to serve".
            Clerk (in kind of a snotty tone): "I'm sorry sir, but everyone that is called is required to serve, or appear to explain why they cannot".
            Me: "That may be a little difficult because he has been dead for six years now..."
                            lllloooonnnnngggg silence.
              Clerk: "Ok...." and hangs up.

              Apparently they got their records updated because I got no more summons. I must admit that I had this momentary desire to jerk them around a bit, and tell them that if they wanted to talk to him, they would have to come and get him....and then give his current address as the cemetary where he was buried.

              Got to love the bureaucracy.
              Dave Mundt

  • by djdbass ( 1037730 ) on Monday December 14, 2009 @10:36AM (#30430758)
    ...but those 10 years are in a Federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison!!
  • by clone53421 ( 1310749 ) on Monday December 14, 2009 @12:27PM (#30432184) Journal

    1a: the act of stealing; specifically: the felonious taking and removing of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it b: an unlawful taking (as by embezzlement or burglary) of property

    1a: deceit, trickery; specifically: intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value or to surrender a legal right b: an act of deceiving or misrepresenting: trick
    2a: a person who is not what he or she pretends to be: impostor; also: one who defrauds: cheat b: one that is not what it seems or is represented to be

    Now, did you have a point to make, or are you just being an asshat?

  • by thePowerOfGrayskull ( 905905 ) <[moc.liamg] [ta] [esidarap.cram]> on Monday December 14, 2009 @12:29PM (#30432204) Homepage Journal

    Couldn't have happened to a nicer piece of pond scum.

    Don't be so complimentary - at least pond scum (of the algae variety) has its place in the ecosystem...

Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky

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