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No, the agency didn't put out a contract on his life or ship him to Guantánamo.
It was while the case against Mr. Lucas was being prepared that Mr. Roberts learned that Mr. Lucas had put out a contract on his life.
But security has been a constant presence for a decade, ever since she first learned that the Italian Mafia had put out a contract to kill her.
Beatty plays a hired murderer in the movie, which stars Peter Falk (Mikey) and John Cassavetes (Nicky) as small-time hoods who wander around while Nicky wonders if crime bosses have put out a contract on his life.
The timing of the arrest warrant, she later learned, arose from the need to protect her: the D.E.A. had intercepted information that Boy George, presumably fearing she would turn state's evidence, had put out a contract on her life.
Among the few decorations in Snyder's law office is a laminated front page of the Post — "kill the judge" — from the time a defendant put out a contract on her life.
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One of the more anticipated shows on Broadway this fall is Craig Lucas's "Reckless," with Mary-Louise Pabout and Rosie Perez, about a woman who flees her home after her husband puts out a contract on her life.
He fairly swiftly establishes his Fortune 500 Enron-era credentials by cheating on his wife, snorting cocaine off the breasts off a teenage girl and putting out a contract on the life of a young woman whose only crime was to have accidentally glimpsed him getting into a car with his stockbroker.
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