This trial now has its own pizza connection. Bungling hitman Khalid Mehdiyev admitted in court today that instead of a cool, collected, globe-trotting assassin, he was actually just a guy who ...

Khalid Mehdiyev was born in Azerbaijan but fled to the United States in 2017 due to “beef” with rival gangsters. An admitted member of the Russian organized crime group “Thieves in Law,” Mehdiyev told ...

Khalid Mehdiyev, the admitted member of a Russian mob who was arrested in 2022 for a plot to assassinate Masih Alinejad. (Department of Justice.) MANHATTAN (CN) — The would-be triggerman in a supposed ...

(L-R) Rafat Amirov, Khalid Mehdiyev and Polad Omarov are accused of being part of an assassination ring. USDOJ While Iranian officials have denied any involvement in the case, defense attorney Michael ...

Jurors in Manhattan federal court heard Wednesday how Khalid Mehdiyev — a 27-year-old self-professed member of the Russian mob — inevitably tipped off his target, activist Masih Alinejad ...

But can it break the government’s case? “You told Omarov you were moving in?” Defense attorney Elena Fast asked the witness, Khalid Mehdiyev, a self-proclaimed mobster in an Eastern European crime ...

The spine-tingling run-in happened July 28, 2022 — which is the same day amateurish assassin Khalid Mehdiyev got picked up by the local cops in Brooklyn with a ski mask and a loaded AK-47 in his ...

Polad Omarov and Rafat Amirov were only trying to “scam” Iranian officials out of $500,000 in a bizarre scheme that involved ...

Khalid Mehdiyev was sent to America to establish a beachhead for his gang. The organization then gave him a mission: Kill Masih Alinejad. By Colin Moynihan Khalid Mehdiyev returned a phone call in ...

Bungling hitman Khalid Mehdiyev admitted in court today that instead of a cool, collected, globe-trotting assassin, he was ...