‘Boiler Room’ scammer charged with plotting to kill judge, prosecutor
U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul, Jr. announced today that Dejvid Mirkovic, 38, of Lake Worth, Florida, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge John Keenan, to a felony charge of conspiring to murder the U.S. District Judge (the “federal judge”) who presided over the boiler room fraud conviction of Mirkovic’s coconspirator, a close business associate.
Mirkovic and his coconspirator agreed to pay $40,000 to an undercover police officer, who they thought was a hit-man, to kill the federal judge as well as the Assistant U.S. Attorney (the “federal prosecutor”) who successfully handled the coconspirator’s fraud prosecution. Mirkovic paid the undercover officer $22,000 in cash as a down payment for the murders of the federal judge and the federal prosecutor. Conspiring to murder a federal employee on account of the performance of official duties carries a maximum penalty of life in prison, a fine of $250,000, or both. Additionally, Mirkovic agreed to the forfeiture of over $200,000, a car and four firearms.
According to case filings, law enforcement authorities learned of the plot in August 2012, when a confidential informant reported that the coconspirator stated he wanted to torture and kill the judge and the federal prosecutor and asked the informant for assistance in arranging for a hitman to carry out the murders. During the subsequent investigation, two undercover law enforcement officers, posing as hit-men, met with Mirkovic and the coconspirator numerous times at locations on Long Island, including at the Nassau County Correctional Center (“NCCC”), where the coconspirator was being held. At one of the first meetings, the coconspirator offered to pay one of the undercover officers $3,000 to assault an individual with whom the coconspirator had a financial dispute. Mirkovic then met with one of the undercover officers and paid him $1,500 as a down payment for the assault. After one of the undercover officers showed proof of the purported assault of John Doe – in fact, a staged photograph and an identification card for John Doe – Mirkovic paid the undercover officer the $1,500 balance.