By Alyssa Newcomb of ABC News
Photo from FinkorSwim.com
A Washington man pleaded guilty to a murder-for-hire plot — that targeted seven victims — after cops in the U.S. and Vietnam teamed up to carry out a sting.
Long Van Nguyen entered a guilty plea in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Thursday. He admitted to charges of conspiracy to kill persons in a foreign country and solicitation to commit a crime of violence.
Nguyen’s plot began in March 2012 when he complained to a confidential source that he sent his nephew in Vietnam $100,000 with instructions that he could spend only the interest on the money, according to court documents. Instead, the nephew spent nearly all of the money.
A few months later, an undercover agent working for Homeland Security Investigations came into contact with Nguyen and told him he “had associates in Vietnam” who could carry out the executions.
The U.S. government coordinated with the Vietnamese Ministry of Public Safety, who sent an undercover officer to pose as the hit man during a meeting with Nguyen’s nephew, a man identified in court documents as “Bon.”
Read the full story by Alyssa Newcomb of ABC News.
