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A former credit union branch manager will spend the next nine and half years in a federal prison for initiating a murder-for-hire plot.

U.S. District Court Judge Cathy Seibel sentenced Reshma Massarone during a court hearing in White Plains, N.Y. last week for hiring a hitman — who turned out to be a law enforcement officer — to murder her brother-in-law.  Judge Seibel also ordered the 40-year-old Massarone to three years of supervised release following the completion of her prison term and to pay a $100 fine.

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