The jury was also shown a letter written by Ms Lagwinowicz purporting to be from a "hit man" hired to kill Miss Wells-Burr.

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The harshest finding was that she had hired a hit man to kill her husband while she was away on vacation.

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Why would you -- why would you, when lobbyists are being hired hand over fist to kill financial reform, why do you seem to side with high-priced lobbyists instead of putting strong rules in place to prevent what happened before?

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Mr. ROBERT YOUNG PELTON (Author, "Licensed to Kill: Hired Guns in the War on Terror"): Well, I spent three years on the ground with security contractors.

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But Braun said Blake never hired Gary McLarty and Ronald "Duffy" Hambleton to kill his wife, contrary to what the two men told prosecutors.

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The latest revelation is that the CIA hired Blackwater in 2004 for a multimillion-dollar plan to locate and kill members of al-Qaeda.

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New chair Charles Walker has a reputation as a keen parliamentary moderniser, and this inquiry may be the vehicle for a process that at least ends the weekly farce of Commons hired guns "talking out" bills by making interminable and unimaginably boring speeches - forcing ministers to kill unwelcome bills in the light of day, rather than by stealth.

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