CBS News Los Angeles: The Rundown (Sept. 20 AM Edition) 02:03 A La Cañada Flintridge businessman faces federal charges of trying to hire a hitman to kill an attorney and a real estate banker he ...

California Exec Tried to Hire Hitman to Avoid $200,000 Debt, Feds Say. IT’S ALWAYS A COP. ... Firearms and Explosives (ATF), Aslanian negotiated a price of $20,000 for each hit, ...

Instead of hiring an actual hitman, Venkatesh Bhogireddy wound up enlisting an undercover ATF agent who posed as a motorcycle gang member named “Joe.” 10 years for murder-for-hire plot spurred ...