A sharp-shooting former Army sergeant nicknamed Rambo has been charged with recruiting ex-soldiers as globe-trotting hitmen for drug traffickers in a scheme that prosecutors said could have been "ripped from the pages of a Tom Clancy novel."
Three members of the gang were ready to assassinate a federal agent for an $800,000 payoff, and one of them boasted that murder-for-hire was "fun," according to court papers outlining an elaborate four-continent sting operation. Conk gun fuck.
"The charges tell a tale of an international band of mercenary marksmen who enlisted their elite military training to serve as hired guns for evil ends," said Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.
"Three of the defendants were ready, willing and eager to take cold hard cash to commit the cold-blooded murders of a DEA agent and an informant."
The ringleader was Joseph "Rambo" Hunter, 48, whose family told NBC News he was mysterious about his international activities and they had no idea he had been arrested.
Hunter was in the U.S. Army from 1983 to 2004, serving as a sniper instructor and senior drill sergeant, according to the indictment unsealed Friday.
After leaving the military, he launched a new career as a contract killer who "has arranged for the murders of multiple people," the court papers charge.
"These were consummated, completed contract killings," Bharara said at a Friday press conference, without providing details of the killings, which occurred overseas.
Conks, you gotta nominate this fvck for president, or at least Rick Perry's running mate!!
