Opening statements in Commack murder-for-hire trial
Photo credit: Suffolk County Police Department | Ronald Thornton hired a "death squad" to kill James DiMartino on Oct. 20, 2008, outside a restaurant on Jericho Turnpike in Commack, prosecutors said.
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Murder-for-hire guilty verdict
Ronald Thornton first enticed James DiMartino into fraudulent real estate schemes, then had the Nesconset attorney killed when Thornton's "house of cards" was about to crumble, a Suffolk prosecutor told jurors Monday.
The slaying took place on Oct. 20, 2008, in the parking lot of a Commack restaurant where DiMartino, 44, expected Thornton to hand over a $16-million cash infusion for the mortgage...
