Poker dealer guilty of demanding money from ‘hitman target’

A Clare woman has been found guilty of soliciting a former Las Vegas poker dealer to kill her partner and his two sons while her co-accused Egyptian Essam Eid has been found guilty of demanding a 100,000 with …

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Wed, July 9th, 2008

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