A Manhattan woman admitted to arranging to have her husband killed over two decades ago...with the help of her dastardly divorce lawyer! Barbara Kogan, 67, had long been a suspect in the assassination of her husband, George Kogan, a wealthy real estate investor who had left her for a younger woman, and who was gunned down outside his mistress's apartment on Oct. 23, 1990 on East 69th Street.
Kogan told prosecutors in Manhattan Supreme Court that she was looking to cash in on a $4.3 million life insurance policy she had secretly placed in her husband's name. She conferred with her divorce lawyer, Miguel Martinez, who hired a hit man for her for $100,000. Martinez was indicted in 1996, but fled the country and was living in Mexico until 2008, when he was extradited back to the U.S. and sentenced to 25 to life. Kogan had famously refused to talk to reporters (or step outside of her apartment) after the murder happened, gaining her the moniker of "Black Widow." She took the plea deal because she "did not want to face her children in court," her new, less-murderously inclined lawyer Barry Levin said. She faces up to 25 year in prison.
