Kentucky
Kentucky doctor pays undercover agent $7K to kill ex-husband: feds
A Kentucky physician is accused of hiring a hitman to kill her ex-husband, federal officers say.
Stephanie Russell, 52, who’s a pediatrician in Louisville, allegedly agreed to pay an undercover FBI agent $7,000 to whack her former partner final Sunday, in response to US prosecutors.
On Wednesday, Russell left $3,500 in money in a drop field exterior her workplace to settle half the pretend hitman’s invoice, the feds say.
She had allegedly advised the agent she would pay him the opposite half after he completed the job.
The common pediatrician in Louisville earns $199,300 per 12 months, in response to Wage.com.
Russell was charged with utilizing interstate commerce services within the fee of murder-for-hire and faces ten years behind bars, authorities stated.
Her on-line bio on Norton Youngsters’s Medical Group had been disabled Friday evening.