• German ex-army sniper jailed for 20 years over 'murder for hire' operation: Dennis Gogel, 29, caught
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[b]German ex-army sniper jailed for 20 years over 'murder for hire' operation[/b] Via [url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/25/german-ex-army-sniper-jailed-for-20-years-over-for-hire-operation]The Guardian[/url] ____________________ [quote][img]http://i.imgur.com/VSDro48.jpg[/img] [i]US attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara announced charges against former American soldiers and a former German soldier during a news conference on 27 September, 2013, in New York.[/i] - - - A former German army sniper was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Thursday after he was caught in a sting operation that tested whether ex-soldiers would kill a federal agent. Dennis Gogel, 29, was sentenced by US District Judge Laura Taylor Swain in Manhattan, who said a long prison sentence was necessary to deter other soldiers from thinking they could use specialized skills they learned in the military to commit crimes once they were civilians. The judge shaved nearly two years off the 22-year prison term recommended by federal sentencing guidelines, saying she believed Gogel was sincere when he expressed remorse. But she said she doubted his claim that he did not know he was signing up to commit assassinations when he agreed to join a crew protecting a drug organization. The sting was created by US Drug Enforcement Administration operatives who wanted to shut down a murder-for-hire operation that prosecutors said used ex-military snipers for freelance killing assignments on behalf of drug organizations.[/quote] So a real-life Soldier of Fortune...
[quote]in a sting operation that tested whether ex-soldiers would kill a federal agent.[/quote] It was a trap. Basically how much do I have to offer you to kill someone who's a federal agent.
[QUOTE=Aide;48757368]It was a trap. Basically how much do I have to offer you to kill someone who's a federal agent.[/QUOTE] Not really. You can always say no and walk away.
[quote]The judge shaved nearly two years off the 22-year prison term recommended by federal sentencing guidelines, saying she believed Gogel was sincere when he expressed remorse. But she said she doubted his claim that he did not know he was signing up to commit assassinations when he agreed to join a crew protecting a drug organization.[/quote] Completely this. There's no way he couldn't have known what this kind of job would be entailing, and he was willing to do it anyway. The punishment given is justly deserved here. [QUOTE=MR-X;48757372]Not really. You can always say no and walk away.[/QUOTE] But that would require personal responsibility, concrete moral principles... hell, really just an understanding that what you were agreeing to do was illegal in the first place... and that the fact it's illegal in the first place is reason enough to, you know, not do it... ...and all that makes way too much sense.
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