CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) - A man already in federal prison on gun convictions has been sentenced to another 20 years for trying to hire a hitman from behind bars to kill two northeastern Iowa people.
Federal prosecutors say 45-year-old Jason Harriman was sentenced Tuesday in federal court in Cedar Rapids.
Harriman was convicted in January of two counts of murder-for-hire. Prosecutors say Harriman began serving a 15-year federal sentence in 2011 on gun charges and made multiple phone and email contacts from prison with someone he thought was a hired killer. The person was actually an undercover federal agent.
Investigators say Harriman met with the agent in prison and agreed to pay the “hitman” $21,000 for the murder of two people - even signing a contract.
There is no parole in the federal system.
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