COEUR D'ALENE - Federal prosecutors have charged a North Idaho attorney with hiring a hit man to try to kill his wife and mother-in-law.
Edgar J. Steele, who is well known from his work representing hate groups such as the Aryan Nations, was arrested Friday in Sagle. According to the FBI, it was the same day the hit was supposed to take place.
Investigators with the FBI tell KREM 2 News Steele paid someone $500 up front for the hit on his wife and mother-in-law, and told them he would pay another $100,000 if the insurance settlement came through. The FBI says the plan was to make the hit "look like an accident."
Both women were located in Oregon City, Oregon, where Steele's wife was visiting her sick mother.
The FBI believes Steele may have been planning for 6 months.
Steele is not seperated from his wife.
Steele is due at the Kootenai County Federal Courthouse at 3:30 Monday afternoon.
