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Description: New Orleans, Louisiana criminal law lawyers represented Defendants charged with murder for hire in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1958, which provides:
(a) Whoever travels in or causes another (including the intended victim) to travel in interstate or foreign commerce, or uses or causes another (including the intended victim) to use the mail or any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, with intent that a murder be committed in violation of the laws of any State or the United States as consideration for the receipt of, or as consideration for a promise or agreement to pay, anything of pecuniary value, or who conspires to do so, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than ten years, or both; and if personal injury results, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than twenty years, or both; and if death results, shall be punished by death or life imprisonment, or shall be fined not more than $250,000, or both.
(b) As used in this section and section 1959—
(1) “anything of pecuniary value” means anything of value in the form of money, a negotiable instrument, a commercial interest, or anything else the primary significance of which is economic advantage;
(2) “facility of interstate or foreign commerce” includes means of transportation and communication; and
(3) “State” includes a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States.
The evidence at trial established that AGE JR. pursued a plan, implemented by AGE III and WILSON, and carried out by GUILLORY, to murder a cooperating defendant in a massive health care fraud case being prosecuted out of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Baton Rouge. AGE JR. was ultimately convicted of the health care fraud and now stands convicted and sentenced to life in prison for his role in the murder for hire plot.
Judge Ashe sentenced each of the defendants to life imprisonment without parole, which was the required sentenced under several of the statutes the defendants were convicted of violating. AGE JR. and AGE III received terms of 120 and 240 months on additional related counts.
This case is part of Project Safe Neighborhoods (PSN), a program bringing together all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve to reduce violent crime and gun violence, and to make our neighborhoods safer for everyone. On May 26, 2021, the Department launched a violent crime reduction strategy strengthening PSN based on these core principles: fostering trust and legitimacy in our communities, supporting community-based organizations that help prevent violence from occurring in the first place, setting focused and strategic enforcement priorities, and measuring the results.
U.S. Attorney Evans praised the work of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the New Orleans Police Department in investigating this matter. This case was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorneys Elizabeth Privitera, David Haller, Brandon Long and Ted Carter.
Outcome: Defendants were sentenced to multiple life in prison terms.
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