Ex-Aryan Nations lawyer guilty in murder for hire

Thu May 5, 2011

CBC News

An attorney who once represented the Aryan Nations was found guilty Thursday on all counts related to a plan to hire a hit man to kill his wife and mother-in-law.

Steele was convicted on four counts, including use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission for murder for hire, possession of a destructive device in relation to a crime of violence and tampering with a victim.

Edgar Steele, a former lawyer for the Aryan Nations was found guilty in Idaho on all four counts related to a plot to hire a hit man to kill his wife and mother-in-law. Kootenai County Jail/The Spokesman-Review/Associated PressThe federal jury of 11 women and one man handed down the verdict in the murder-for-hire case involving north Idaho lawyer Edgar Steele.

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