A Long Island man has been found guilty of plotting to decapitate a federal judge and prosecutor after the government presented recordings, documents and a confession showing the man orchestrated the attempted assassinations for $40,000.
In reaching the verdict against Joseph Romano, the jury of nine women and three men needed three and one-half hours to reject Romano’s defense that he was entrapped by an untrustworthy jailhouse snitch who pushed him into a plot targeting Eastern District Judge Joseph Bianco and Eastern District Assistant U.S. Attorney Lara Treinis Gatz.
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