http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2008/jul/20/would-be-vegas-hitmans-story-ends-irish-jail/
Would-be Vegas hitman’s story ends in Irish jail
Card dealer’s strategy: Double-cross clients
By Abigail Goldman
Sun, Jul 20, 2008 (2 a.m.)
Chris Morris
Beyond the Sun
* The Sunday Business Post, Ireland: How Lying Eyes was caught in cyber trap (7-13-2008)
* Herald.ie, Ireland: It was a plot worthy of the Coen brothers (7-10-2008)
* Irish Independent, Ireland: Routine burglary led to unravelling of plot (7-10-2008)
* Irish Times, Ireland: Clare woman’s ‘hitman’ trial continues (6-27-2008)
* Belfast Telegraph: Conspiracy to murder trial told of alleged scam to inherit estate (5-22-2008)
* The Post: Man finds it ‘difficult’ to believe wife wanted him dead (5-6-2008)
We all nurse private ambitions. Essam Ahmed Eid, a 53-year-old Egyptian man living in Vegas and dealing poker at the Bellagio, dreamed of becoming a hit man. He longed to take off the casino clown suit, the Nehru shirt and simpering smile — and replace them with a gun and a grimace.
So Eid did what any enterprising 21st century contract killer would: He created a Web site — www.hitmanforhire.net — and waited for the clients to come.
They did. And what happened next went so wrong, backfired so badly, that it was the subject of almost every cover article in every newspaper in the country — Ireland, that is. That’s where Eid’s final contract to kill flopped fantastically.
This you have to read.............anything can happen today.
The poker dealer has been described as being rather buoyant about the whole experience, enjoying “an easy, humorous relationship with prison officers and everyone around him.”