I can't make this up.

[Frank]

Really, I can't.

The case is The People vs. Dota, 33 F3d 1179. A business president is sweet on his secretary, but she won't return the favor because she has a boyfriend. So the president hires someone to kill the boyfriend. The guy he hires turns around and hires someone else to do the killing for him. That guy hires 2 more people to help him.

They beat the boyfriend with bats and shoot him. The boyfriend survives. When the secretary phones work that that she can't come in because the boyfriend was hurt, the president calls the first hiree who calls the second hiree. The second hiree tries to get a P.I. to check and see if the boyfriend will survive. Instead the P.I. contacts the F.B.I. and they video everything.