Officer Who Hired Hit Man to Kill Her Husband and Young Girl Is Sentenced
The New York Times
Valerie Cincinelli, a former New York police officer, got four years in prison for seeking to enlist her boyfriend in a murder-for-hire scheme.
A former New York City police officer accused of orchestrating a botched murder-for-hire plot — in which she asked her boyfriend to hire a hit man to kill her estranged husband and his teenage daughter — was sentenced on Friday to four years in prison.
The former officer, Valerie Cincinelli, 37, pleaded guilty in April to obstruction of justice, one of three counts she faced in connection with the scheme. Her lawyers had asked a federal judge to sentence her to time served — she has been in custody since her May 2019 arrest. Federal prosecutors had sought a five-year term.
Ms. Cincinelli was suspended without pay after her arrest and resigned from the Police Department in March, the police said.
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