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"hit man" Definitions
  1. a professional assassin who works for a crime syndicate
  2. HATCHET MAN

416 Sentences With "hit man"

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Mike is not a hit man — not yet, at least.
Couldn't the hit man just be detained at the border?
A hit man can be hired for between $5,000 and $200,000.
Stephen had spent at least $2000,216 on the hit man idea.
It is like hiring a hit man to solve a problem.
While Cookie was locked up he worked as a hit man.
One suspect is a Mafia hit man One of the two suspects in the brutal beating was identified as Fotios "Freddy" Geas, a Mafia hit man from Massachusetts, The New York Times reported, citing unnamed sources.
Nacho essentially is looking for a hit man to take someone down.
Bill said, 'It wouldn't be a cool hit man—it'd be me.
On Monday, her husband was convicted of having hired a hit man.
Ukrainian prosecutors say he was a hit man for Russia's intelligence services.
The couple met with the hit man at an Olive Garden in Houston.
"I was a hit man," he told The New York Times in 2000.
Jonathan Banks played Mike Ehrmantraut, a mob member, private investigator, and hit man.
Rosquette didn't know that the purported hit man was an undercover FBI agent.
The "clients" he met in restaurants and parking lots were hiring a hit man.
The actor plays Frank Sheeran, an elderly hit man looking back on his life.
" The Center for Western Priorities said the incident turned Zinke into "Trump's hit man.
He even at one point contemplated hiring a hit man to cover up his crimes.
Saints manager Claude Puel pulled no punches afterwards in praise of his new hit-man.
Maybe a hit was ordered by someone like the supposed hit man he had mocked.
The lonely guy who moonlights as a hit man, even though he knows it's wrong.
He called Mr. Trump a "head man," not a "hit man," The Journal-Constitution said.
The F.B.I. was alarmed when a suspected hit man showed up years ago in Florida.
The acquaintance, who was an FBI informant, arranged for a hit man who'd charge $10,000.
After that meeting, Rosquette allegedly told the informant that he approved of the hit man.
Bondy also represented Louis Eppolitto, a New York Police Department detective turned mafia hit man.
" In 2011, Nancy Brophy, a romantic-thriller writer, published a blog post detailing the pros and cons of various methods of husband elimination — "Guns: loud, messy, require some skill"; "Poison: considered a woman's weapon"; "Hiring a hit man: Do you know a hit man?
A jury found that Oliveira ordered two employees to hire a hit man to kill Brito.
None of the articles, however, indicate that the site, or even a hit man, was responsible.
The hit man for the first murder that Ulbricht allegedly commissioned was an undercover D.E.A. agent.
Two weeks after he was sentenced, a hit man confessed to the murders, according to court documents.
Indeed, the hit man and longtime suspect in Hoffa's presumed killing wanted to set the record straight.
The alleged plan was thwarted when the hit man turned out to be an undercover police officer.
Reeves returns as the titular retired hit man, now with a $211 million price on his head.
You don't introduce a professional hit man if you don't plan to have him whack some goons.
And Chris Christie, who denounced Cruz's speech as soon as he heard it, is a hit man.
One of the suspects in the notorious crime boss's killing was identified as a mafia hit man.
Fortunately for the neighbor, the hit man was an undercover agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
SWEET VIRGINIA A hit man (Christopher Abbott) and a rodeo champion (Jon Bernthal) cross paths in Alaska.
To protect his reputation, Sheriff Wilkins allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill the deputy.
Kyle goes low after he and Frank learn that a hit man is targeting the Russian mob.
A "hit man" does what you would think, he offs people — he's an OFFER, one could say.
And it's the hit man who shoots the Russian scientist Alexei as he clutches a plush prize.
Mr. Lascañas has now become the second professed hit man to level such accusations against Mr. Duterte.
And it's the hit man who shoots the Russian scientist Alexei as he clutches a plush prize.
HBO leases Stage 17 for "Barry," a comedy about a hit man who wants to change professions.
In the last book, the hit man neutralized the Moscow-spawned daughter of trippy traitor Kim Philby.
Ms. Fogarty, the daughter of John Fogarty, a reputed Mafia hit man, was not seen at the funeral.
They'll have to hire a hit man or something – that's the only way they'll get rid of me.
Authorities alleged to PEOPLE that McDaniel and Jacob met with a hit man at a Houston Olive Garden.
He's a hit man, but somewhat reformed: He kills only people who have hired him to kill others.
Keanu Reeves reprises his role as the titular hit man in this sequel to the 2014 action film.
Then a readout from the intel cell suggested that the hit man was planning to buy a gun.
"Tell him I'm sending a hit man down to take care of him," Williams recalled telling his assistant.
Cyrus hired a hit man to kill his own husband, though he called it off at the last minute.
And Mike has been summoned by Nacho and asked if he will take a job as a hit man.
A bumbling private detective (Ryan Gosling) and a hit man (Russell Crowe) team up to investigate a missing woman.
"If the hit man is guilty, so is the person who ordered the hit," The Federalist's Georgi Boorman argued.
On Bill Hader's forthcoming HBO series, "Barry," he plays a hit man who decides to pursue an acting career.
How does a reporter collect information for the story of a professional baseball player who became a hit man?
Yellow Eye (Cao Kou), a depressed hit man, wants start-up cash to finance a career as an inventor.
But there has still not been a killing commissioned on one of the dedicated hit-man-for-hire sites.
"They took away everything left in me that was human and made me a monster," said the hit man.
In addition to Mr. Osorio Rojas, a paramilitary hit man named Pelusa was also frequently mentioned by the workers.
It wasn't that Israel became a hit man or a bank robber; her misdeeds were smaller and more specialized.
The assailant ended up being a hit man hired by Harding's ex-husband Jeff Gillooly and his friend Shawn Eckhart.
A few years later, according to news accounts and US intelligence sources, a suspected Kremlin hit man approached his home.
During the national campaign, Mr Kaine occasionally came across as a snarling partisan hit-man, mostly interested in lancing Republicans.
Cross said in his statement that Bergdahl laid out how he could become a hit man the night before disappearing.
If abortion is murder, the woman is less like a victim and more like someone who hires a hit man.
The threatening tweets included "mention of blood in the water, journalist hell, hit man (and) open season," the officer wrote.
In "Barry" (HBO), Bill Hader is a hit man who lurches toward believing that he wants to be an actor.
Then she meets a charmer (Sam Rockwell) and things start looking up — until she discovers that he's a hit man.
When he was unable to keep up the payments, the former owner had hired a hit man to pursue him.
"I was kind of his hit man," she said, sipping an iced tea at a Starbucks in the Bay Area.
The action-movie star Steven Seagal has played a former C.I.A. agent, a hit man and a killer of criminals.
Then finally word came back from the surveillance team that the hit man had set out from the Hilton alone.
Robert De Niro plays Frank Sheeran, a former hit man who tells the story of his life in organized crime.
Sasko cited Reeves' roles as Neo in "The Matrix" trilogy and as the eponymous hit man in the 'John Wick' films.
Cohn was a high-powered New York lawyer who made a name for himself as a legal hit man for Sen.
Mickey is long gone, murdered by a hit man hired by a business partner enraged over something that no longer matters.
Frank also calls Laurel (finally!) and accuses Annalise of sending a hit man to kill him, but the conversation ends quickly.
She plays a con artist, just out of prison, who tries to prevent a hit man from carrying out his job.
Prosecutors say Gómez hired a hit man to target David Fernandez, who was with Ortiz during the night of the shooting.
Then there is the hit man, the call girl, and the Hollywood producer all managing to become part of the madness.
And, when it came time for Rory to demonstrate how a bunker shot SHOULD be hit ... man, HE ALMOST HOLED IT!!!
To his credit, Thorpe didn't immediately hire a hit man to plug the blackmailer, although it did eventually come to that.
A prison official identified one of the suspects as Fotios (Freddy) Geas, 51, a Mafia hit man from West Springfield, Mass.
WASHINGTON — When a suspected hit man for Russian intelligence arrived in Florida about four years ago, F.B.I. surveillance teams were alarmed.
Helen also has some people she'd like to see dead, letting her hit man know he should keep his schedule open.
The man was Frank Sheeran, and besides being an Irishman, he was also a bagman and hit man for the mob.
Dr. Hill was murdered by a hit man in the driveway of his River Oaks mansion before he could be retried.
Her "Prince Charming" turned out to be a crazed hit man on the run Blanche Wright thought he was a lawyer.
Mr. Chang plays a hit man who opens a noodle cart as his cover while hiding out in a Japanese village.
She played a young girl who befriended a hit man in hopes of avenging the murder of her parents, she said.
The plot sounds familiar: A hit man becomes disillusioned with his job and suddenly yearns to make it in the arts.
The Bible, "Prayer," by Pastor Timothy Keller, and — of late — one of the groovy Israeli hit man novels by Daniel Silva.
Keanu Reeves is back as the haunted hit man John Wick in the third installment of the fan-favorite action franchise.
Police say that Jeffrey Peyton believed that the officer was a hit man and offered him $500 to kill the daughter's boyfriend.
Haim expertly covered Twain's 1999 hit "Man, I Feel Like A Woman!" at a pop-up show last week, and Twain approved.
Wendi Adelson told investigators that her brother, Charlie Adelson, had joked about hiring a hit man to kill Markel, the affidavit states.
When Pica said he'd serve as a hit man, Cheryl told him her secret and discussed the possibility of killing her dad.
He mocked a reputed Dutch-Moroccan hit man who was arrested in Dublin, making fun of his many expensive watches and shoes.
The 4th District Court of Appeal ruled that a statement was improperly admitted as evidence linking Moscatiello to the alleged hit man.
The show's first episode, "The Body," features a seasoned hit-man trying to stash a body in a graveyard on Halloween night.
The threatening tweets and rants included "mention of blood in the water, journalist hell, hit man (and) open season," the officer wrote.
Olympic glory for Michael Phelps and Simone Biles; the deaths of Arnold Palmer and Muhammad Ali; a baseball prospect turned hit man.
Mr. Bulger was in the same unit at the prison as Fotios (Freddy) Geas, a mafia hit man from West Springfield, Mass.
So Rosquette allegedly came up with a plan: Hire a hit man to kill the superintendent to resolve his problem with neighbors.
I was writing a story about someone Mr. DeMasi had known in prison, a professional baseball player who became a hit man.
Pacino plays Lefty Ruggiero, an aging mafia hit man who develops a friendship with an undercover F.B.I. agent, played by Johnny Depp.
Where these candidates still aren't quite there, Mr. Castro proved himself to be a rhetorical hit man right out of the gate.
However, that amount was reduced to just $29k after Tekashi learned the hit man only fired one shot and missed his mark.
In prison awaiting trial, Kruse tried to hire a hit man to killWeatherford along with two business associates and his older brother, David.
When Pica said he'd serve as a hit man, Cheryl confessed her secret to him and discussed the possibility of killing her dad.
She later collaborated with her now-husband for a few live performances, including his 2008 PBS tribute concert Hit Man: David Foster & Friends.
But over the course of his career as a hit man he came to realize that he wasn't on the side of justice.
"She wasn't looking for a hit man or anything, she was looking for love," Gypsy's stepmother, Kristy Blanchard, tells PEOPLE of what happened.
And Donald Trump, a political con man who sympathizes with hit man Vladimir Putin and "Republicans" such as Charlie Crist, manifestly is not.
So, let's get this straight: Joe is a victim of child abuse, a veteran with post-traumatic stress, and a professional hit man.
But the one about a hit man who is punished by an evil doctor with sex reassignment surgery is not one of them.
Or that he is currently sleeping with a hit man that already has the death of the current President's son on his résumé?
His situation recalls Bill Hader's hit-man comedy "Barry" on HBO, but Ray, while sensitive, isn't particularly interested in redemption, artistic or otherwise.
In modern times, the attackers have included a vengeful ex-employee of a television station, a drug-cartel hit man and political activists.
Then, as another friend tried to open his front gate at night, a hit man crept out of the dark, shooting him dead.
The police report states that Hyde was claiming to be the target of a hit man and of surveillance by the Secret Service.
Projecting an almost monomaniacal toughness, Baron himself plays a Cleveland hit man trailing his latest target in New York during the holiday season.
"You may be surprised to hear he's a congressional candidate from Texas and not a hit man in a porno movie," Davidson said.
Tour guides — including Mr. Escobar's top hit man, John Jairo Velásquez, known as Popeye — take customers on walks through the cartel's old haunts.
When Pica had said he'd serve as a hit man, Cheryl confessed her secret to him and discussed the possibility of killing her dad.
McPhee previously collaborated with the Grammy-winning producer for a few live performances, including his 2008 PBS tribute concert Hit Man: David Foster & Friends.
He'd been researching how to hire a hit man using Bitcoins on a work computer, as well as various plant- and frog-based poisons.
The same hit man who bludgeoned a woman with an ice pick last week approaches Dougie as he and Janey-E leave his workplace.
The list was for a hit man, the police and prosecutors said, with instructions to kill everyone on it so they could not testify.
As a smirk plays about the corners of Mr. Foster's mouth, his sneaky, fish-eyed performance suggests he is the director's designated hit man.
The actor especially was praised for his nuanced performance as the ex-hit man who comes out of retirement to avenge his dead dog.
When Martin McDonagh approached him to play a hit man for "In Bruges," basically throwing him a lifeline, he almost turned down the part.
For someone who kills for a living, he's awfully passive, having let his hit-man career happen to him more than having pursued it.
The hit man was a fearsome figure in the Russian ganglands—and he was no stranger to the man he was coming to kill.
But "Barry," starring Bill Hader as a hit man who gets bitten by the theater bug, is much darker, and so is its satire.
The son of a middle-class law firm stenographer, he began his criminal career as a teenage enforcer and hit man in South Brooklyn.
Last Wednesday, the police informant and an undercover Houston police officer posing as a hit man met with Jacob and McDaniel at the Olive Garden.
"She was basically the mastermind behind it all, [and] I was basically a hired hit man in its own weird sense," Godejohn told ABC News.
Sometime after he settled in the US, the Russian hit man arrived at his home, according to the recent New York Times and BBC stories.
Her late father Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart, along with her uncle, Bret "Hit Man" Hart, were inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame this year.
It's not entirely clear why, though we did learn in this episode that the man Annalise sent to find Frank was actually a hit man.
Hit Man: Few characters in American public life relish the blood sport and brutal hand-to-hand combat of politics as much as Mr. Christie.
BOGOTA, Colombia – Colombian police have re-arrested a former hit man for the late drug lord Pablo Escobar as part of an investigation into extortion.
When Barry finally comes clean and delivers a poignant monologue about how and why he became a hit man, his face contorts in a grimace.
She later collaborated with her soon-to-be husband for a few live performances, including his 2008 PBS tribute concert Hit Man: David Foster & Friends.
Nevertheless, when Nacho approaches him with a hit man gig worth $50K, Mike hears him out — especially since the target is none other than Tuco.
In this sequel, an American operative calls in a hit man with a grudge to help him foment a war between two rival Mexican cartels.
Under Mr. Coakley's watch, Mr. Bulger would soon be placed in the same unit as Mr. Geas, a mafia hit man from West Springfield, Mass.
In "No Country for Old Men," we get an oddly intimate glimpse at the most inhuman of figures, Javier Bardem's ghastly hit man, Anton Chigurh.
After breaking into the Besa Mafia site and a few others, Mr. Monteiro found information about 18 people who had paid for hit-man services.
The show was co-created by Hader, who also stars as the titular character, a hit man who realizes he wants to become an actor.
A desert-dry sendup of the entertainment industry, this HBO series follows a hit man (Bill Hader) who stumbles into a Los Angeles acting class.
Sources inside the town say that Hezbollah fighters who surround the town paid a local hit man to murder Khaled for talking to the media.
On Friday, producer of Amazon hit Man In High Castle, Isa Hacket, told The Hollywood Reporter that Price had harassed her during the 2015 Comic-Con.
And she later collaborated with her soon-to-be husband for a few live performances, including his 2008 PBS tribute concert Hit Man: David Foster & Friends.
The charging documents describe Cincinelli as impatient, using social media to locate Jane Doe in Warwick, New York, and suggesting the hit man run her over.
How did an action movie with a $20 million budget about a hit man avenging a dead puppy become Hollywood's best original movie franchise in ages?
Chainz enlists the help of YG and Offset on the new project, and taps producers Non-Stop Da Hit Man of 808 Mafia and Street Runnerz.
Slovak authorities announced on Thursday that they had charged Mr. Kocner with ordering the murder of Mr. Kuciak and hiring a hit man to kill him.
After the 1970s, Ms. Harris acted less frequently; in her final film, "Grosse Pointe Blank" (1997), she played the mother of a hit man (John Cusack).
A former cartel hit man-turned-YouTube-star appeared, offering DVDs recounting his exploits with Mr. Escobar and anecdotes from the day the building was attacked.
From a baseball player turned hit man to the amazing ability of Simone Biles, a look at some of the most compelling stories of the year.
The critically-acclaimed film follows an aging Irish mob hit man (played by Robert de Niro) as he comes to terms with his life and career. 
"She made the statement that her brother had joked the previous summer about hiring a hit man but instead decided to buy her a television," Isom said.
When it comes to Dougie, the police have done one very important thing: They've found Ike the Spike, the hit man who attempted to kill Dougie/Cooper.
"She made the statement that her brother had joked the previous summer about hiring a hit man, but instead decided to buy her a television," Isom said.
The app is slow and removes people with a great deal of mess, leaving behind a smear of pixels like an AI hit man sending a message.
Kerrigan was attacked by a hit-man after an Olympic practice session in the hopes of breaking her leg and sidelining her for the upcoming Winter Games.
If I saw the clip on its own, I would guess it belonged to a Cold War espionage thriller, or maybe a drama about a hit man.
Producer of Amazon hit Man In High Castle, Isa Hackett, told The Hollywood Reporter that programming chief Roy Price had harassed her during the 2015 Comic-Con.
At Stanford, his teammates went to see him play Joe Cooper in a student production of "Killer Joe," a dark Tracy Letts comedy about a hit man.
"You may be surprised to hear he's a congressional candidate from Texas and not a hit man in a porno movie," Davidson said in a 2018 bit.
So Elefante hunts the treasure; the drug dealers hunt each other; and everybody, including the lovestruck detective and the hit-man-who-cannot-be-named, hunts Sportcoat.
With its quirky yet intense tone, the dark comedy series follows the life of its title character Barry, a hit man who falls in love with acting.
New York Police Department officer Valerie Cincinelli was arrested on Friday and charged with attempting to hire a hit man to kill her husband and her boyfriend's daughter.
There were no other deaths tied back to Besa Mafia customers, but Yura reportedly started other hit-man-for-hire scam sites—Crime Bay, Sicilian Hitmen, Cosa Nostra.
On this January night, Hader was in character as the hit man Barry Berkman, on "Barry," the dark comedy that he co-created and stars in on HBO.
As the second season begins, Letty has gained custody of her son, Jacob, and settled with him and Javier, a rakish hit man, in a remote beach town.
Caught on grainy security camera footage, the sloppy hit man sped off in an Acura TL. That, too, was not the first overture against the family this summer.
Veronica (Kristen Bell) has several suspicious characters in her sights, including a cartel hit man (Clifton Collins Jr.), a compromised Congressman (Mido Hamada), a shifty ex-con (J.
But by February, according to an affidavit unsealed on Friday, she had asked her boyfriend to hire a hit man to kill Mr. Carvalho, and his own daughter.
It suggested that the suspect was a hit man who had been released from prison by the Russian authorities in order to carry out the assassination in Berlin.
Martin Scorsese&aposs latest film follows an Irish hit man as he adjusts to mob life — with the help of Pesci, who plays his mob mentor of sorts.
The network has paired it with a worthy running mate in season two of "Barry," the dark comedy about a hit man suddenly bitten by the acting bug.
Budi contacted an undercover Homeland Security agent in Buffalo, N.Y., in April and May 2018 looking for someone who could "provide hit man services," WBTV reported , citing court documents.
A Florida woman accused of hiring a hit man to kill her husband in 2009 spoke out shortly before a judge declared a mistrial in the high-profile case.
The movie also runs out of steam by the end and devolves into yet another dull shoot-'em-up, courtesy of a drab hit man played by Matt Bomer.
Frank was both a long-time top Teamsters Union official in Delaware as well as an admitted Bufalino crime family hit-man and top aide to the boss himself.
In this case, the man is a former marine who has retooled as a hit man, and the blonde is a plucky ingenue he meets in an acting class.
Clinton's hiring detectives to dig up dirt on her husband's affairs, an adjacent "news" article suggests that she may have hired a hit man to have another woman killed.
All three narrative threads turn out to wrap around Philip Hastings, a tormented hit man who stands at the center of a noirish storm of corruption, violence and depravity.
If you have time this weekend, check out our story on Maurice Lerner, a top baseball prospect in the '50s who later became a hit man for the mob.
And there it was, the journey of a future hit man, chasing his big-league dreams in Erie and Boise and Yakima and Topeka, pretty consistently batting over .300.
An F.B.I. agent posing as a hit man contacted Mr. Lecroy, who told the agent over the phone, "$500 and he's a ghost," according to an arrest warrant affidavit.
The suspected hit man also traveled to another city where one of the informant's relatives lived, raising even more concerns that the Kremlin had authorized revenge on American soil.
A hard-boiled, seductive con artist (Michelle Dockery) who's trying to regain custody of her son stumbles into a relationship with a softhearted, sexy hit man (Juan Diego Botto).
The couple survived, but later that year the restaurateur hired a hit man to kill the husband, whose body was found in a forest in Tamil Nadu, the court heard.
Apparently, it's what you say to a hit man when making polite inquiries into his availability—a useful tip, though not if you are genuinely concerned with redecorating your home.
Bulger's lawyer further argues federal prosecutors withheld information regarding certain "promises, rewards and inducements" offered to John Martorano, a self-admitted hit man who testified against Bulger at his trial.
Bulger's lawyer further argued federal prosecutors withheld information regarding certain "promises, rewards and inducements" offered to John Martorano, a self-admitted hit man who testified against Bulger at his trial.
The son, Gonzálo Rojas, said that the former hit man had shown no real remorse and that he was trafficking in a perverse sort of celebrity because of his crimes.
That vicious punishment is popular in the organized crime world for people who cooperate with law enforcement; one of two suspects in the brutal beating is a Mafia hit man.
"Isn't that just the sort of thing people say about inhospitable places?" reflects the antihero of MIDNIGHT SUN (Knopf, $23.95), Jo Nesbo's character study of a fugitive Norwegian hit man.
Mr. Martorano, a member of Mr. Bulger's Winter Hill Gang, confessed to 20 killings but recoiled at being called a hit man or a mass murderer or a serial killer.
The cartel operative — be he a kingpin or a hit man or a small-time drug dealer — has become the dominant image of Latino people in American television and cinema.
It has also been the home of many other reputed mobsters, including Salvatore Gravano, known as Sammy the Bull, a onetime hit man who informed on his boss, John Gotti.
Michelle Dockery of "Downton Abbey" fame stars as Letty, a career criminal who forms a tense but hot alliance with Javier (Juan Diego Botto), a hit man and scammer himself.
The Season 2 premiere follows the case of Dalia Dippolito, a Florida woman who is serving 16 years in state prison for hiring a hit man to kill her husband.
Then he shot and killed five tigers, sold baby lemurs and falsified paperwork to say they were donated, and tried to pay a hit man $3,000 to kill a rival.
The hit man waited with the other passengers, unaware that his bag had been removed from the hold and was being searched and swabbed by officers in hazmat suits outside.
The women of "The Irishman," Martin Scorsese's somewhat true story of the mob hit man and Teamster, initially look sparkly and refreshing, an oasis in a desert of suit jackets.
One of the two suspects in the brutal beating was identified as Fotios "Freddy" Geas, a Mafia hit man from Massachusetts, The New York Times has reported, citing unnamed sources.
In 1985, Mr. Scarfo assigned a hit man, Nicholas Caramandi, to extort $1 million from Willard Rouse III, a developer who was seeking to build on the Delaware River waterfront.
That show's executive producer is Karen Gravano, whose father is Salvatore (Sammy the Bull) Gravano, a former Gambino hit man turned government informant and mortal enemy of Gottis everywhere. (Ms.
But prosecution sources tell PEOPLE the case has been scrutinized in recent years, after an admitted professional hit man named Vincent Smothers came forward claiming responsibility for the drug den slayings.
An FBI memo described Gigante as "an efficient hit man" for Genovese, although his most famous foray into mob murder was the botched May 1957 hit on mob boss Frank Costello.
If the hit man could make her death look like an accident—by, say, ramming her Toyota Sienna minivan on the driver's side—he would throw in a few more bitcoin.
To an audience of tens of thousands in St. Peter's Square, at the heart of the Vatican, Francis made seemingly unscripted remarks likening abortion to hiring a hit man, Reuters reports.
In September, a self-proclaimed hit man testified to having heard Duterte order assassinations and to having watched him kill a man with a machine gun while a mayor in 1993.
Critic score: 99%Audience score: 88%What it's about: The dark comedy follows a former-marine-turned-hit man, Barry Berman (Bill Hader), who heads to Los Angeles on a contract.
At the start of "Mechanic: Resurrection," the hit man Arthur Bishop (Jason Statham) certainly isn't mourning his dead protégé from "The Mechanic" (Simon West's 2011 remake of a Charles Bronson movie).
MR. INBETWEEN 11:30 on FX. This six-part drama from Australia about a hit man with anger issues (Scott Ryan, who created and wrote the show) comes to a close.
Starring Josh Brolin as a man who stumbles upon a large suitcase of cash and Javier Bardem as a psychotic hit man, the movie gets better every time you see it.
Ms. Husler, the inspector who called herself Mr. Patel's "hit man," said that Mr. Patel considered his own interests when determining what stores would be sent to arbitration, and likely closed.
Her satanic father, incarcerated after he and four other men abducted a girl, was so terrifying that Mailhot's maternal grandmother saved up money to hire a hit man to kill him.
Police allegedly obtained information showing her husband, 44-year-old Jason Thomas Harris, allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill her and eventually fed her cereal poisoned with heroin.
The Spanish word "sicario," usually translated as hit man or contract killer, has an accidental resemblance to the word samurai — the same first letter, the same pattern of consonants and vowels.
The driver dropped the hit man and his young accomplice outside the hotel, and the pair made their way through the revolving doors at the base of the glowing blue skyscraper.
I have a very tiny part in it — I play Robert De Niro's daughter, one of them, and he's the Irishman [the labor union leader and alleged hit man Frank Sheeran].
The appeals court found that a statement attributed to the purported hit man Gurino — "I got the work from Moscatiello" — was improperly admitted because it came second-hand from a dead man.
A former mafia hit man is a suspect in Tuesday's prison slaying of 89-year-old James "Whitey" Bulger, a notorious New England mob boss turned informant, according to multiple news reports.
About two weeks after Mr. Sanford was sentenced to a 37- to 90-year prison sentence, Vincent Smothers, a hit man, confessed to the four killings, as well as to eight more.
Before Mr. Brock became the man at the center of a multimillion-dollar operation built to defend the Clintons, he was a self-described conservative hit man intent on taking them down.
Imagine if he used that channel to become a video star by portraying himself as a penitent hit man and regaling viewers with tales of violence while seeking forgiveness for homicides past.
Thanks to impressive de-aging technology, De Niro plays truck driver-turned-hit man Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran over the span of 40 years as he works for Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino).
The movie's director, Federico Castelluccio, played Furio, the Italian hit man who became Carmela's object of desire, and he finds roles here for the "Sopranos" alumni Arthur J. Nascarella and John Bianco.
Of course, that ridiculous question to Giuliani came from the same guy who made a name for himself as being Bill Clinton&aposs political hit man during his run for the president.
The police have said the killings were connected to Mr. Kuciak's work, and they recently arrested several people suspected of involvement, including one man the authorities believe was a paid hit man.
But there was more: Holmes was accused of hiring a hit man, allegedly at Thorpe's prodding, through a chain of contacts that included two acquaintances named John Le Mesurier and George Deakin.
And that's how the therapist, Diane Sylvia, ended up giving orders to an F.B.I. agent posing as a hit man to beat up someone who was blackmailing her, according to the complaint.
This news program interviews Richelle Shetina, whose boyfriend Dr. Joseph Sonnier, a pathologist, was killed in 2012 by a hit man hired by her ex-boyfriend Dr. Thomas Michael Dixon, a plastic surgeon.
An Italian court convicted Mr. Gucci's ex-wife, Patrizia Reggiani, of murder for hiring a hit man after Mr. Gucci divorced her and embarked on a series of affairs with much younger women.
A court official confirms to PEOPLE that jurors convicted an Ohio fashion model on Wednesday, finding her guilty of trying to hire a hit man to kill the mother of her husband's children.
Citing unofficial sources, the outlet attributed the shooting to drug traffickers who had not been allowed to operate at the event and who had retaliated by sending a hit man after the organizer.
Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl said he fantasized about becoming a hit man for the Russian mob the night before he left his post in Afghanistan, according to a sworn statement from an Army friend.
" Comic Pete Davidson joked about how Crenshaw wears an eyepatch, adding that Americans "may be surprised to hear he's a congressional candidate for Texas and not a hit-man in a porno movie.
Critic score: 96%Audience score: N/ANetflix description: "Martin Scorsese's epic saga of organized crime in postwar America, as told by a hit man, stars Robert De Niro, Al Pacino and Joe Pesci."
"You may be surprised to hear he's a congressional candidate for Texas and not a hit-man in a porno movie," Davidson said, describing a photo of Crenshaw, who wears an eye patch.
The title character (Bill Hader), a Midwestern hit man, jets off to Los Angeles, where his handler, Fuches (Stephen Root), has arranged for him to handle some "personal business" for the Chechen mob.
In Jean-Pierre Melville's seminal crime film, Alain Delon plays Jef Costello, a highly disciplined hit man whose life is disrupted when he is seen leaving the scene after killing a nightclub owner.
In the wake of the shooting, crews start warring, assassins are dispatched (including a hit man "so horrible that everyone seemed afraid to mention his name") and even the local mob capos mobilize.
German investigators interviewed by The Times said they could not be certain that the man they have in custody is the same as the St. Petersburg cop who moonlighted as a hit man.
Deciding to do some good after a lifetime of bad, she makes it her mission to derail the operation, only to become dangerously entangled with that very attractive hit man (Juan Diego Botto).
The hit man played by Robert De Niro in "The Irishman" pretends to be anyone other than who he really is, even as he risks losing touch with his self and his soul.
While going from a show about a politician to a hit man might not be a natural juxtaposition, in terms of the mantle of HBO's best half-hour, the torch has been passed.
A Florida woman accused of hiring a hit man to kill her husband in 2009 has been sentenced to 16 years in prison — but her attorney tells PEOPLE his client will appeal the case.
Deciding to do some good after a lifetime of bad, she makes it her mission to derail the operation — only to become dangerously entangled with Javier (Juan Diego Botto), that very attractive hit man.
On the witness stand, Mr. Le Roux described how in 2010 he lured Mr. Smith into a rural area near Manila and shot him in the head with the assistance of a hit man.
With his unforgettable mug ("What was it about this face whose still, dark eyes stared out from the back seat?" a spooked cabdriver asks himself), Kale seems a strange choice for a hit man.
Besides his fears of a hit man, Mr. Hyde also claimed that the Secret Service had hacked his computer, according to a police report, which said he "continued to act paranoid" during the encounter.
Mr. Haynes then turned around and won an acquittal for Mr. Davis the next year when he was charged with hiring a hit man to murder the judge who had presided over his divorce.
In one case, Elizabeth Stakelbeck, a friend of Mr. Bevin's sister, was pardoned after being convicted in a 2013 plot to hire a hit man to kill her ex-husband and his new wife.
He went on to play Mia Farrow's short-tempered husband in "The Purple Rose of Cairo" (1985) and a Mafia hit man in "Radio Days" (237), both of which were directed by Mr. Allen.
According to a criminal complaint filed on May 17, Cincinelli approached her boyfriend in February about hiring a hit man to kill her husband and the boyfriend's daughter, and allegedly paid him $7,000 in cash.
Peterson, 62, was convicted of two counts of solicitation of murder for trying to hire a hit man from prison to kill County State's Attorney James Glasgow, Attorney General Lisa Madigan said in a statement.
Earlier this week, Cincinelli discussed details of the crime with the confidential source, agreeing that the hit man would kill her husband near his workplace in Holtsville, New York, prosecutors said in the court papers.
According to a hit man who turned state's evidence in 2017, the head of one of the victims was cut off to be used as a football by the boss who had ordered his killing.
So, a few days before Christmas in 1988, the old ballplayer and hit man pleaded no contest to murder and conspiracy charges, received credit for time served, and walked unshackled into the cold Providence day.
A Massachusetts man was arrested in New York on Thursday after trying to hire a hit man on Twitter to kill ICE agents for $500 and sharing his desire to slit the throat of Sen.
Not too long into "Asher," directed by Michael Caton-Jones and featuring Ron Perlman in the title hit man role, the hired killer has something that might be a heart attack while on the job.
A white man in South Carolina sought a hit man to kill his black neighbor, hang the body from a tree and leave a "flaming cross" on the neighbor's lawn, according to a court filing.
He played a deranged Swedish-born Russian nuclear strategist in the 2011 movie "Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol," and a Russian mobster who battles a former hit man played by Keanu Reeves in "John Wick" (2014).
Ronald Reagan, running for office four years later amid another surge in prices, declared inflation to be "as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man".
The hit man was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to murder and taken into police custody, where he was interrogated for two days, while his child accomplice was taken into the care of social services.
It seems unlikely that a 3,000-hit man would have just one season with 200 hits, but five members of the club have none: Cap Anson, Rickey Henderson, Eddie Murray, Dave Winfield and Carl Yastrzemski.
She has discussed fund-raising assistance with Mr. Brock, once a self-described "right-wing hit man" who switched sides and eventually became one of Hillary Clinton's fiercest loyalists during her campaign against Mr. Trump.
" Even stranger, Wilsey wrote how he planned to go to New York and meet up with a drug gang and find work as a professional hit man: "Nobody ever got famous for killing just one person.
OCALA, Florida — The confessed drug cartel hit man Jose Manuel Martinez had already been sentenced to 213 life terms in prison by the time he was sent to Florida to face charges on two murders here.
A 10-year-old boy named Wasil Ahmad, who had fought with the Afghan Local Police against the insurgents, was killed by a Taliban hit man outside his home in southern Oruzgan Province two weeks ago.
"She made the statement that her brother had joked the previous summer about hiring a hit man but instead decided to buy her a television," Tallahassee Police Detective Crag Isom testified during a December 2016 hearing.
In stunning testimony last week, a former hit man told a Philippines Senate hearing that he had been part of a death squad that served under Duterte when he was mayor of Davao, targeting drug dealers.
The teenager, who had quickly recanted, was sentenced to up to 90 years in prison and remained behind bars even after a notorious Detroit hit man admitted to having committed the killings with a second man.
MANILA — A professed hit man who implicated President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines in extrajudicial killings backed off some of his earlier assertions of the president's involvement under tough questioning from a Senate committee on Thursday.
The vehicle had a starring role in "La Suburban Negra," or "The Black Suburban," his 276 installation and video about the drug trade, in which he plays a drug lord, a hit man and a cop.
But being alive doesn't mean she's safe, and Tara has become the target of Dax Blackwell, a youthful hit man who has the colossal nerve to pose as a friend and visit her in the hospital.
Even though the attack was actually carried out by a hired hit man, this imagined scene distills the version of the story that America became obsessed with, in which one woman's anger leaves another woman traumatized.
GALVESTON Mélanie Laurent directed — and adapted, from a novel by the "True Detective" creator Nic Pizzolatto — this thriller, which finds a hit man (Ben Foster) on the run with the kidnapping victim (Elle Fanning) he rescued.
In an early-morning raid in Kolarovo, a small town in southern Slovakia, the police arrested eight people, including one man the authorities said might have been a paid hit man who carried out the killings.
Mr. Gianopulos sees another potential success in Ang Lee's "Gemini Man," which will roll out in the fall and stars Will Smith as an aging hit man who must combat a clone of his younger self.
In 2013, he was convicted in the slayings, as well as extortion, and money-laundering after a sensational racketeering trial that included graphic testimony from three former Bulger cohorts: a hit man, a protege and a partner.
Buckingham, 29, a former Marine, is charged with attempted first-degree murder for allegedly plotting to hire a hit man to kill her ex-boyfriend, Bradley Sutherland, who is also the father of her child, PEOPLE confirms.
And last year, Drew was convicted and sentenced to serve an additional 40 years after trying to hire a hit man in an attempt to kill the prosecutor who brought the charges against him for Savio's killing.
The sequel to 2014's John Wick follows the legendary hit man as he is once again forced out of retirement after learning that a former associate is plotting to seize control of an international assassins' guild.
Valdez-Villareal was a top lieutenant and hit man for Arturo Beltran Leyva and also led a group of killers responsible for murders carried out by the drug trafficking organization, according to the U.S. Department of State.
Here's a moment from this second entry of the "John Wick" series: Despite having just been struck by a four-door sedan, the former hit man John Wick (Keanu Reeves) manages to dodge about a dozen gunshots.
Two men — a former police officer and a self-confessed hit man — filed the first case, claiming that they had carried out killings at Mr. Duterte's order when he was still the mayor of a southern city.
The plant-based up-and-comers have become a big enough threat that the meat industry has hired a marketing hit man to go after the new plant-based contenders to an increasing share of meat's market.
A self-described hit man told a Philippine Senate committee in September, as part of an inquiry into extrajudicial killings in Davao City, that Mr. Duterte had personally ordered the killing of citizens when he was mayor.
But Miroslav Marcek — a former soldier who has admitted to being the hit man in the case and is cooperating with the prosecution — told the court in January that he had rejected that approach as too unreliable.
A Queens man accused of hiring a hit man who carried out a brazen daytime killing on a Midtown Manhattan street more than four years ago was convicted on Friday of second-degree murder and other charges.
Ms. de Lima chaired a Senate panel last year that heard testimony from a professed hit man who said he belonged to a death squad that Mr. Duterte had overseen while serving as mayor of Davao City.
Narcotraffickers and crime syndicates also pay off gang members to support illicit trafficking and to assert their power; the jobs vary from hit man, kidnapper, extortionist, arsonist, carjacker and recruiter of low-level supporters of criminal activities.
HBO's "Barry," which returns for its second season on March 31, is built around a marine turned hit man (Bill Hader) who wants out of the game but finds himself unable to quit without hurting innocent people.
Yet von Sydow proves the exception in "Three Days of the Condor," appearing as a fedora-donning hit man who leads a daytime massacre of a C.I.A. office that kills all but Robert Redford's intrepid code breaker.
Christopher Meloni stars as Nick, an alcoholic hit man who reluctantly teams up with a flying blue unicorn to track down a child-snatching man in a Santa Claus suit, all while being chased by the mob.
For years the neighborhood had a dark reputation fueled by a self-described hit man turned federal witness saying the bodies of many people killed in La Perla were tossed into the sea so sharks would eat them.
Valerie McDaniel, 22014, and 2014-year-old Leon Jacob — reportedly a "prominent" Houston veterinarian and her boyfriend — were charged on Friday with solicitation of capital murder, both accused of hiring the fake hit man to kill their exes.
Matt Damon's fourth turn as Jason Bourne runs the risk of feeling, literally, like an afterthought: In 2007's Bourne Ultimatum, you'll recall, the rogue special-ops hit man finally pieced together how he was brainwashed and trained.
On Friday morning FBI agents arranged for a Suffolk County Police Department detective to tell Cincinelli that her husband had been killed and sent the confidential source a text, purportedly from the hit man, of a murder scene.
Spit on by protesters at the Memphis airport, rejected by his father and unable to find a job, he reluctantly (and implausibly) finds himself working as a hit man for a mysterious boss called the Broker (Peter Mullan).
Twenty-four hit-man-for-hire sites are the subject of an academic paper that was shared in advance with The New York Times by a professor at Michigan State University, Tom Holt, and his student, Ariel Roddy.
KILLING GUNTHER Political precedents are broken all the time, but for now, Arnold Schwarzenegger stands as the only former governor of California to star as a bespectacled, wisecracking hit man who becomes the target of other hit people.
After undeniably tossing Games 1 and 2 of the World Series, the Black Sox, shorted on their promised payments, played to win, until a hit man known only as Harry F. threatened Lefty Williams before the deciding game.
The designated hit man, Jack Parrish, has his own adversaries, including a colleague he shafted when they both worked for the C.I.A. and an Army colonel who watched him steal military equipment and sell it to outside contractors.
She traces her jailing to the day last September when her committee heard testimony from Edgar Matobato, a professed hit man who said he worked for the Davao Death Squad, which he said Mr. Duterte created and commanded.
Vincent Vega, John Travolta's "Pulp Fiction" hit man, is gunned down in a bathroom in the middle, only to walk out of the diner into the sunshine at the end, revived by the simple secular magic of chronological reordering.
Yasay did not address testimony in the Philippines senate earlier in the day from a self-confessed hit man who said Duterte issued assassination orders while mayor of a city where activists say hundreds of summary executions took place.
But the best story, "The Black Spot," features his trademark Detroit setting and tough-guy humor, as well as his durable antihero, the professional hit man Peter Macklin, whose assignment is to take out six targets in 10 days.
For Dylan O'Brien, taking on the high-energy role of a CIA hit man was no easy task after he spent months recovering from an accident he suffered last year on the set of the Maze Runner's third film.
"Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 34%What critics said: "There's howlingly awful and then there's 'The Assignment,' a thoroughly ridiculous, numbingly slow neo-noir thriller about a low-life hit man forcibly given gender reassignment surgery by a vengeful doctor.
There are a couple ways you might expect a hit-man-in-Hollywood story to go: The killer teaches a few lessons to the showbiz phonies, or he discovers that crime has given him unique insights into human nature.
The hit man was not coming alone: He was traveling with a young boy, which looked like the same modus operandi one of Litvinenko's assassins had employed in bringing his family to London as a cover for the hit.
But in part after the filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer released a documentary in 2012 called "The Act of Killing," chronicling the life of an unrepentant hit man in the purge, members of Indonesian society began to delve into its history.
His authorial gaze encompasses everything from a flower-festooned gangster's funeral (with "a casket costing more than most people's houses") to a golf game featuring Capone; his hit man, Machine Gun Jack McGurn; and the mayor of suburban Burnham.
Witnesses described the gunman as as stylish as the 46-year-old former fashion mogul, but much more deadly: After shooting Gucci in the back and shoulder with a 7.65-mm pistol, the hit man fatally shot him in the face.
If achieved, profit would be at its highest since peaking at 525.7 billion in the year through March 1998, when strong consumer electronics sales combined with the popularity of the first PlayStation console and box-office hit "Man in Black".
She brings together the likes of hit man extraordinaire Deadshot (Will Smith), fire-flinging Diablo (Jay Hernandez) and crazy, bat-swinging Harley Quinn (Robbie), a hot mess in hot pants who lost her heart and mind to the Joker (Jared Leto).
The festival's opening-night offering is Martin Scorsese's "The Irishman," starring Robert De Niro as a hit man whose exploits connect with politics—in particular, the real-life disappearance, in 1975, of the union leader Jimmy Hoffa (played by Al Pacino).
But Mr. Monteiro has worked with media organizations, including Wired and 48 Hours, which have passed his information to law enforcement officials, eventually leading to the arrests of people who paid the sites to connect them with a hit man.
Like Avary's directorial debut, 1993's "Killing Zoe," this movie has a thing for Frenchness, including a hit man, Luc, played by Crispin Glover, who speaks with an outrageous accent and wants Red dead to avenge his own departed frère.
Chris O'Dowd plays a hit man hoping to use his love of movies to escape his past and to reunite his family, while Ray Romano plays a B-picture producer risking everything for one last shot at the big time.
One of those bad guys, Charlie (Larry Fessenden, the director's father, who is also the cinematographer), has been shot, and a maniacal hit man is determined to fill him and his accomplices (James Le Gros and John Speredakos) with more lead.
Two men, Arthur Lascanas, a former Davao City police officer, and Edgar Matobato, a self-described hit man, have said they were members of a "death squad" led by Mr. Duterte that targeted petty criminals, drug traffickers and political opponents.
Barry has been able to justify his work as a hit man by convincing himself he's taking out "bad guys," but in the second episode, he is faced with the aftermath of a kill for the first time: a grieving father.
" A police report on the 2013 investigation said a Capital Gazette attorney showed an officer tweets from Ramos in which Ramos "makes mention of blood in the water, journalist hell, hit man, open season, glad there won&apost be murderous rampage, murder career.
Then on Wednesday Scherbanic was charged with 27 more counts, including five counts of soliciting homicide, five counts of soliciting causing a catastrophe and nine counts of soliciting retaliation, after police allege he tried to hire a hit man while behind bars.
Jackie was this enforcer and hit man who went around not so much meting out justice as he was meting out the only kind of sanity that could help get things back to even a dishonest, corrupt version of a status quo.
Also headed for various sorts of final reckonings are the crime-family boss Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci, emerging from retirement) and the coldblooded hit man Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), who finds himself squaring off against the most implacable of opponents: time.
Dalia Dippolito is serving a 16-year sentence for hiring a hit man to kill her husband in 2009 — but officials allegedly heard the Florida woman "enthusiastically discussing" a South Carolina man's recent prison escape involving a drone, according to multiple reports.
Its Senate heard explosive testimony from a self-described hit man who said that the country's new president, Rodrigo Duterte, had presided over the extrajudicial killings of about 1,000 criminals and political opponents over the years he served as mayor of Davao City.
It said it had acted in solidarity with Dimitris Koufodinas, an imprisoned hit man for the now-defunct November 17 domestic terrorist group, which killed 23 people, including a C.I.A. station chief in Athens, a British military attaché and several Greek businessmen.
The discoveries have fanned speculation, rational or not, that the unattached feet could be the work of a tsunami, a human trafficker, a Mafia hit man, a deranged foot fetishist or a serial killer who had spread body parts out to sea.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and his son on Tuesday hurled criticism at state authorities investigating the death of an alleged hit man who was suspected of involvement in the murder of a well-known Rio de Janeiro councilwoman.
Last year, a Senate panel led by Ms. de Lima heard testimony from a professed hit man, Edgar Matobato, who said he belonged to a death squad that had been overseen by Mr. Duterte when Mr. Duterte was mayor of Davao City.
He is the second person claiming membership in the squad to speak out against Mr. Duterte, bolstering the explosive testimony of another professed hit man, Edgar Matobato, who has been in hiding since last year, when he linked the president to the killings.
Later, in Episode 8, the closeted gay hit man Vito Spatafore (Joseph R. Gannascoli) goes on the lam to a quaint New Hampshire town, where he pretends to be a writer and wonders if he can avoid his grim fate back home.
We now know that her direct employer is Mr. Todd, the haunted-looking guy with the midcentury modern office, whom we last saw saying "tell her she's got the job" and who now terminates that job by sending her photograph to a hit man.
McPhee, who has previously collaborated with the 67-year-old Grammy-winning producer for a few live performances (including his 2008 PBS tribute concert Hit Man: David Foster & Friends), joined David on stage to debut a track from a stage musical he's working on.
Instead, How To Get Away With Murder's Season 3 finale (actually two episodes jammed together, "He Made a Terrible Mistake" and "Wes") introduced us to a brand new hunky hit man (Nicholas Gonzalez) mere moments before showing him choking Annalise's beloved puppy to death.
In the season 2 premiere of TNT's thriller Good Behavior, con artist Letty (Michelle Dockery) attempts to impress an affluent new neighbor, played by Laura Bell Bundy, by inventing a backstory for her hit man boyfriend Javier (Juan Diego Botto) which involves Gwyneth Paltrow.
Kavanaugh got to where he is the Washington way: by loyally serving powerful figures in the party -- first special prosecutor Ken Starr in his pursuit of Bill Clinton, then as a legal hit man in the Constitutional drive-by shooting of Bush v. Gore.
Written and directed by (and starring) ex-SNL'er Taran Killam, the movie focuses around the act of killing the titular Gunther, the best hit man in the world portrayed by a guy who can capably portray the best hitman in the world: Arnold Schwarznegger.
But said she could no longer sit on the sidelines after a young Slovak journalist, Jan Kuciak, and his fiancée, Martina Kusnirova, were shot and killed by a hit man hired to stop Mr. Kuciak's investigations of corruption at the top levels of government.
A white man in South Carolina has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to trying to hire a hit man to kill his black neighbor, hang him from a tree and leave a burning cross in his yard, prosecutors said.
In one of the most gruesome cases, a man in Minnesota was arrested after he was found to have killed his wife himself when the hit man he had commissioned on the Besa Mafia website for about $6,000 in Bitcoin did not come through.
But two figures tied to Duterte, a police officer and a professed hit man, have publicly implicated Mr. Duterte in hundreds of killings, and their lawyer has subsequently asked the International Criminal Court, based in The Hague, to prosecute him on charges of mass murder.
The basis of the story remains from the comics: Happy is the imaginary friend of a girl named Hailey, and when she's kidnapped (by a very bad Santa), he flies off to find Nick, who was a hero cop before he was a hit man.
One of the show's executive producers is Karen Gravano, a star of "Mob Wives" and the daughter of Salvatore Gravano, also known as Sammy the Bull, who was a hit man for John Gotti, the Gambino crime family boss, and later became a government informant.
The Martin Scorsese film has been a strong awards contender across the board, but De Niro was snubbed by both the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild, suggesting that his performance as an obedient hit man may be too passive to galvanize voters.
If achieved, it would be the highest profit since its peak, of 525.7 billion, set in the year through March 1998, on strong sales of consumer electronics and a boost from box-office hit "Man in Black" as well as the popularity of the first PlayStation.
A New York man got the shock of a lifetime last week when FBI agents informed him that his estranged wife had paid her boyfriend $7,000 to hire a hit man to kill him and that she expected her ex to be murdered in the coming days.
Most prominently, Frank "The Irishman" Sheeran, a hit man who died in 2003, told Brandt that he was the person who murdered Jimmy Hoffa, the celebrated former Teamsters president who disappeared in 1975 and for decades thereafter was the subject of mystery and conjecture about his fate.
Authorities had also investigated Chammout for alleged offenses that he was never convicted of, including shooting a 15-year-old, assaulting and threatening to kill his wife, negotiating to purchase anti-aircraft missiles, and discussions with an undercover FBI agent who posed as a hit man.
But while "Barry" gets plenty of laughs from Hader's former-Marine-turned-hit man wandering into the Los Angeles theater scene — particularly Henry Winkler's standout performance as a vain yet lovable acting teacher — the series' inaugural season grew darker and more emotionally rich as it progressed.
"Back then, it was a handful of crackpots; it was considered fringe; and it was contained," said David Brock, the self-described right-wing hit man who switched sides and started a fleet of liberal groups to track conservative disinformation, including from hosts like Mr. Beck.
Eighteen months later, when her cousin and the former head of the family fashion house, Maurizio Gucci, was shot and killed in Milan by a hit man hired by his ex-wife, Ms. Gucci had fully retreated from the industry, and was raising her three daughters.
Eighteen months later, when her cousin and the former head of the family fashion house, Maurizio Gucci, was shot and killed in Milan by a hit man hired by his ex-wife, Ms. Gucci had fully retreated from the industry, and was raising her three daughters.
An Oklahoma man who once ran a tiger petting zoo was sentenced Wednesday to 22 years in a federal prison for trying to hire a hit man to kill an animal-rights activist who had criticized the zoo's treatment of animals and for killing five tiger cubs.
A particularly toxic brew of glibness and graphic violence, this Netflix throwaway, directed by the music video maestro Jonas Akerlund, stars the usually trustworthy Mads Mikkelsen as a notorious hit man, the Black Kaiser, who decides he is ready to retire and ruminate on his sins.
But in a twist, authorities said in a news conference the victim was a pawn in Hupp's scheme to portray him as a hired hit man, and thus steer suspicion toward a second man who had questioned Hupp's ties to the unsolved murder of the second man's wife.
His journeyman career, including stints as a singer, comedian and mime, has ranged from the swarthy (his turn as Django, the drifter Gypsy hit man on a Russian mafia show) to the absurdly sublime (he is close friends with, and has worked alongside, Slava Polunin, the Russian clown).
The judge in that case ticked off a string of allegations against Chammout at his sentencing: He had been accused of shooting a juvenile in the leg, seeking to smuggle rocket launchers into the Middle East, attacking his wife with a crowbar and plotting to hire a hit man.
In charging Mr. Kocner with paying a hit man $80,000 to kill the journalist, the authorities in Slovakia hope to regain a measure of the public trust that has been shattered by the killings and by the rife corruption that Mr. Kuciak and other reporters were working to expose.
Offenders driven by a psychological compulsion are a decidedly different type of criminal than a hit man or a Ponzi-scheme operator, but, this perceptive film laments, they end up in the same jails, a response that hasn't changed during Mr. McCollum's 35 years of riding and recidivism.
Carden is one of my favorite performers on TV (in addition to The Good Place, she plays a smaller part on HBO's wonderful hit-man comedy Barry), and I love the way she's turned Janet into an out-and-out weirdo without sacrificing any of the character's heart.
And we will finally get to see The Irishman, Martin Scorsese's long-in-the-works crime drama starring Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Jesse Plemons, Bobby Cannavale, Anna Paquin, and Harvey Keitel, about Frank Sheeran (De Niro), the mob hit man who claimed he killed Jimmy Hoffa (Pacino). Phew!
Authorities now say that Hupp picked up Gumpenberger – a stranger with physical and mental impairments related to a 2005 traffic crash – then drove him to her house and staged the incident to make it look as if Gumpenbereger was a hit man hired by Russell Faria to come after her.
In criminal affidavits, authorities allege that his bitter split from his ex-wife, Wendi Adelson, another former FSU law professor, led members of Wendi's family to engage a hit man whose attack on Markel would free Wendi and the couple's kids to move closer to her family in South Florida.
The self-described hit man, Edgar Matobato, said that Rodrigo Duterte, the new president of the Philippines, presided over the extrajudicial killings of about 22003,22013 criminal suspects and political opponents when he was mayor of Davao City for most of the past two decades — even ordering some of the killings himself.
Within 24 hours, the critic, Senator Leila de Lima, was stripped of her post as chairwoman of the Senate Justice Committee, which recently had heard damning testimony from a professed Duterte hit man, and the House of Representatives opened hearings on allegations that she had received payoffs from drug lords.
Over the course of HBO's dark comedy — beat it if you don't want to know what happened — Barry (Bill Hader), a hit man in Los Angeles, fell out of love with his profession and in love with a woman from his acting class, who was unaware of his day job.
Based on Charles Brandt's book "I Heard You Paint Houses," the movie is about Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), who claims to have worked as a hit man for the Bufalino crime family, and to have been responsible for the unsolved disappearance of the former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino).
This is a sequel of sorts to last season's "International Assassin" (and its brief coda, from that year's finale), following Kevin Garvey as he dies and wakes up in some strange version of the afterlife, where all his dead friends are alive and he has a job as a hit man.
They had hoped Atlangeriev might lead them to the heart of FSB activity in the capital, or possibly to a warehouse crammed with radiological weapons, but ever since his call to Berezovsky, the hit man had acted for all the world like a tourist showing a kid around the city.
Sources told VICE News that an anaesthesiology nurse known as Doctor Khaled, who ran the clinic until mid-January, had to pay a smuggler thousands of dollars to get out of the town when he heard a hit man had been hired to kill him for talking to the media.
Fundamentally different from the preachy-and-useless books from media critics and "—for Dummies" style how-to books, Confessions of a Media Hit Man is not only an instructional manual for mastering the wild world of social media but an honest warning of the dangers—written by someone who has personally been there.
Release date: April 6 Why it matters: After debuting at Cannes last summer to positive buzz and winning two awards at the festival (for its screenplay and Joaquin Phoenix's performance), Lynne Ramsay's adaptation of Jonathan Ames's novel about a tormented hit man searching for a missing teenage girl is finally coming to theaters.
But the self-described hit man, Edgar Matobato, who said he killed about 50 people as a member of a death squad in Davao City, was unshaken in his testimony that Mr. Duterte, as mayor there, presided over about 1,000 killings of criminal suspects and political opponents over more than two decades.
The following day, the F.B.I. agent posing as a hit man spoke with Mr. Lecroy, who texted him images and names of two targets, including the neighbor, identified in the charging document by the initials F.J. Mr. Lecroy told the agent over the phone, "$500 and he's a ghost," according to the affidavit.
"I don't think we have a perfect candidate this time — we don't have a Barack Obama," said Justin Faircloth, a real estate investor and musician in Charlotte, N.C. When the first sites selling hit-man services were discovered, people started to assume the dark web was crawling with assassins waiting to kill on command.
If audiences are still more likely to recognize Mr. Del Toro as an intriguing side than as a main course, his character in the "Sicario" films is notably something in between the two, both the hit man of the film's Spanish title and a near mythical figure who manages to be more feared than seen.
During a series of prison yard chats, Mr. Nichols, a Midwesterner with antigovernment tendencies, and Mr. Scarpa, the son of a famous Mafia hit man, struck up a relationship, and Mr. Nichols eventually revealed a secret: that behind rocks in the crawl space of his former house in Kansas, there were bomb-making materials.
Working with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci for the first time since 1995's "Casino" — and with Al Pacino for the first time ever — Scorsese adapts Charles Brandt's "I Heard You Paint Houses," a memoir about Frank Sheeran (De Niro), a hit man who claimed to play a role in the disappearance of his friend, Jimmy Hoffa (Pacino).
Ms. Larrymore, according to the complaint, said that Mr. Leasure, from jail, had instructed her to meet his father because his father had found "a lawyer who will take care of the situation," which she said was code for a hit man The account of Ms. Larrymore's actions is difficult to reconcile with her public persona in recent months.
Executives at the Capital Gazette originally called police in May of that year to report "ranting" Twitter posts on Ramos's account aimed at the newspaper, including references to "blood in the water, journalist hell, hit man, open season, glad there won't be murderous rampage, murder career and paper," according to a police report obtained by NBC.
As the GM of the Carolina Panthers, Polian used a first-round draft pick on Rae Carruth, who went to prison for hiring a hit man to murder a woman who was eight months pregnant with his child; the best receiver on the great Indianapolis Colts teams Polian built was Marvin Harrison, who is awfully close to another murder.
There's Dr. Arthur Jennings, the dead politician whose narration jump-starts the story; Nina, a nihilistic receptionist; Dr. Love, a Medellín operative trained by the C.I.A.; Bam-Bam, a baby gangbanger; John-John, a gay hit man; Josey Wales, the tricky, perceptive enforcer who flubs the Marley assassination but then ascends to the top of a transnational drug syndicate.
Because unless you're a nun" and you're sleeping with "your cousin while married to a hit man for the Russian mob who has liquidated all of their drug money and converted it into Nigerian currency that you've transferred to your tattooed bisexual lover who happens to be a sitting judge, you're not making a blip on my shock radar.
Marketed as intended, Confessions of a Media Hit Man is poised to inspire and define a generation of workers in the style of its predecessor, David Ogilvy's Confessions of an Advertising Man, which became the bible of the advertising and public relations industry, is still in print more than fifty years after publication, and sold more than one million copies.
Deadshot's back story is not in itself all that interesting — he's the devoted father of an adorable little girl and also a ruthless hit man for hire — but no one in movies is better than Mr. Smith at playing a man of sorrows and wisecracks (even if his performance here is a minor variation on his work in the brilliant and underrated "Hancock").
But both teams pale in comparison with the Rockets, who attempted a record 61 3-pointers in a game last week and seem determined to establish themselves as the high-volume shooters of the N.B.A. From a baseball player turned hit man to the amazing ability of Simone Biles, a look at some of the most compelling stories of the year.
The Irishman De-aging technology lets Martin Scorsese be a time-thief with "The Irishman," serving us another choice cut of De Niro, a fillet of Pacino and a full side of Joe Pesci — lured back from unofficial retirement to preside over the 209-minute mobster epic as head of a Philadelphia crime family with his faithful hit man in tow.
For his part, Duterte has dismissed the 57-year-old as a liar and said he doesn't remember him, but Matobato tells CNN that he murdered around 50 people in a 24-year career as a hit man as part of the DDS; criminals and political rivals of the then-mayor in his hometown, the largest city in Mindanao in the country's restive south.
On Thursday's episode of the show, the Chrisley Knows Best star, 47, decided he was truly going to give it his all while competing against Real Housewives of Atlanta's NeNe Leakes – so naturally, he channeled his inner Shania Twain and rocked out to her hit "Man, I Feel Like a Woman" while wearing shorts shorts, a top hat with a birdcage veil and nipple tassels.
But Mr. Menasse wants to capture the other Brussels as well, including the headquarters of NATO, so there is another thread — a police detective whose politically sensitive investigation is frustrated and a Polish hit man who kills the wrong person but escapes amid a chaotic protest by pig farmers (and their pigs), demonstrating against an E.U. regulation blocking the export of pigs' ears to China.
While the meme referenced the events in 1994 that led to Harding's ex-husband hiring a hit-man to take Kerrigan's knee out before the Winter Olympics, many fans felt it was insensitive due to the prevalence of the #TakeAKnee movement in wake of President Donald Trump calling for the firing of basketball and football stars like Colin Kaepernick, who have chosen to protest the national anthem by taking a knee.
Some were familiar to fans—like Marlon Brando's "screen test" at his home, when he transformed himself into Don Corleone in front of Mr Coppola, or the decision by Mr Coppola to add a scene showing Luca Brasi, the hit man, nervously rehearsing his lines before meeting the Godfather, since the man playing the role, Lenny Montana, had trouble with his lines (he was an actual mob tough, not an actor).
The first few episodes of the new AMC series Preacher are wildly, queasily exciting: Bodies explode into curtains of blood, an Irish vampire devises his own meal plan high up in a plane – fold-down trays are not required – a hit man sings "Wynken, Blynken and Nod" over the insistent roar of a chainsaw, and the face of a young man is revealed to be a maimed, puckered mask of flesh.
In his hunt for those who knew Le Roux, he goes to Minnesota, the Philippines, Israel, Brazil and Vietnam, encountering a cast of characters out of a Coen brothers film: a grizzled Canadian security operative, an elderly pharmacist, a target-shooting Filipino cop, a South African hit man and the pseudonymous informant who ran Le Roux's business in Somalia and later helped the American authorities to capture him.
We have the slow, painful death of romance ("Marriage Story"); a dour, near-funereal shaggy-dog story about a phlegmatic hit man ("The Irishman"); a blackly funny but agonizing depiction of contemporary social polarities culminating in gore and gristle ("Parasite"); a wish-fulfillment fantasy of an alternate-universe 1969 whose climax is no less bloody ("Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"); a harrowing odyssey through the muddy, corpse-ridden battlefields of World War I Europe ("1917"); and an origin story of a comic-book sociopath ("Joker") that seems almost nostalgic for a dingy, crime-ridden urban landscape straight out of the Bronx-is-Burning era of 1970s New York.

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