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Officials: 2 in murder plot had prior scams

Dejvid Mirkovic, right, and Joseph Romano are shown

Photo credit: U.S. Department of Justice | Dejvid Mirkovic, right, and Joseph Romano are shown in a government surveillance photo outside Romano's purported coin boiler room in Delray Beach, Fla.

A man charged this week with conspiring to kill a federal judge and a prosecutor was a front man in a Florida coin scam for Joseph Romano, who is accused of hatching the murder plot from the Nassau County jail, according to testimony by a federal postal inspector.

After federal investigators said they discovered that the scheme was being run by Romano through his associate, Dejvid Mirkovic,...

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