Justice Department charges three in murder-for-hire plot targeting Donald Trump

The Department of Justice charged an Iranian man and two others in a murder-for-hire plot targeting then-candidate Donald Trump, with Iran’s government directing the scheme to assassinate Trump on U.S. soil and abroad. The three individuals charged are Farhad Shakeri of Iran, Carlisle Rivera of Brooklyn, New York, and Jonathan Loadholt of Staten Island, New York, with Shakeri allegedly being an IRGC asset living in Tehran and recruited to surveil and assassinate Trump. Rivera and Loadholt were also arrested as part of a criminal network to silence and kill an American journalist critical of the Iranian regime.

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