The convicted mastermind of a $100 million mortgage fraud scheme has been charged with plotting the murder of a “rat” who testified against him.
“He’s a p—y, a total f–king p—y,” Aaron Hand was taped at the Coxsackie Correctional Facility, referring to the witness who put him in prison for 8 1/3 to 25 years, according to prosecutors.
“I wish I was there to see his f–king face,” prosecutors say he told an undercover cop who was posing as a hit man. “Watch him f–king suffer.”
If the witness’ wife and two young children happened to be home? They might have to be killed as well, Hand mused on wiretaps.
“I think if you leave anybody, you might have a — you might have a problem,” Hand allegedly told the undercover, who was visiting him in prison — and wearing a wire.
Manhattan prosecutor Pierce Moser said yesterday Hand was taped on prison phones tricking his family into delivering a $150 down payment on the hit. The family members believed Hand needed the cash to bribe a correction officer, so that Hand wouldn’t be confined in a restricted area of the prison.
Hand and three co-defendants were convicted last summer of enterprise corruption, conspiracy, grand larceny and other charges for a mortgage-fraud scheme conducted through their loan company, AFG Financial Group.
More than 20 other co-defendants had pleaded guilty in the case, and the targeted witness, who authorities would not name, was among those who had cooperated against the suspects at trial.
Hand hadn’t even been sentenced yet when he began his plot, prosecutors said.
“You leave a body, you’ve got a crime,” he was taped advising the undercover.
And in a chilling contract- murder fantasy, Hand allegedly gave the undercover a blow-by-blow of how the proposed hit should unfold at the would-be victim’s home.
“Boom. Lights are shattered . . . Rush in, boom, boom, boom. Run upstairs, downstairs, get it — just hit the road.
“No samples. No DNA. Wear gloves. Wear something over your head . . . no trace of nothing.”