WHAT A HEEL: Contract Attorney
IL matrimonial lawyer Jason Smiekel, 29, was arrested after allegedly making a $7,000 down payment on a $20,000 contract to kill a man who was once his client, and whose ex-wife he was dating, the ABA Journal reports:
Smiekel … allegedly said he needed to have his girlfriend's ex-husband killed because the man was about to testify against him in an unspecified "proceeding."
The ex-husband, Smiekel allegedly said, had "information about Jason that could get Jason in trouble and lead to a criminal indictment," as the affidavit puts it.
A partner at Mohr Hill & Smiekel, an Algonquin firm that specializes in matrimonial law, Smiekel was an excellent lawyer who "had a very special talent" and was respected by judges and everyone else familiar with his legal work, senior partner Terry Mohr tells the ABA Journal.
Smiekel, who gave the money to an undercover agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives at a suburban Chicago restaurant, has been indicted on seven counts of using interstate facilities in a murder-for-hire plot for using his cell phone and car to make the arrangements.
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