Amateur Assassin’s Fumbled Plot Unravels: Exiled Journalist’s Life Spared by Botched Hit in Brooklyn
New York, NY – In a failed murder-for-hire plot that reads like a script out of a noir thriller, a self-proclaimed Russian mobster was caught and arrested after a series of blunders. Federal prosecutors have presented evidence against Khalid Mehdiyev, 27, for attempting to assassinate Iranian-American journalist and activist Masih Alinejad last year. Mehdiyev, an … Read more