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unusual facts about contract killing


Derek Haas

In 2008 he published his novel The Silver Bear about the young contract killer Columbus.


Commonwealth of Pennsylvania v. Mumia Abu-Jamal

However, Abu-Jamal did not state his version of events for the initial police investigation or later until, almost 20 years afterwards, Arnold Beverly claimed that, "wearing a green (camouflage) army jacket", he had run across the street and shot Daniel Faulkner as part of a contract killing because Faulkner was interfering with graft and payoff to corrupt police.

Crime in Germany

Nevertheless, crimes such as drug trafficking, weapon trafficking, extortion, prostitution, money laundering and contract killing are present in most less well-maintained areas of urban centres such as Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Duisburg, Cologne or Düsseldorf.

Hitman: Enemy Within

The novel's plot is set between Hitman 2: Silent Assassin, Hitman: Contracts and Hitman: Blood Money and revolves around a rival murder-for-hire organization, known as Puissance Treize (French for "Power Thirteen"), attempting to destroy Agent 47's employer, the International Contract Agency (ICA).

Naftule Brandwein

He even supposedly played private shows in backrooms for the largely Jewish contract killing gang Murder, Inc..

Vito Rizzuto

According to law enforcement officials Rizzuto oversaw a criminal empire that imported and distributed tonnes of heroin, cocaine and hashish in Canada, laundered hundreds of millions of dollars, lent out millions more through loansharking operations and profited handsomely from illegal gambling, fraud and contract killings.


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