Fellow federal prisoner of John Kiriakou, convicted of murder-for-hire after taking out a life insurance policy on his business partner to pay off a $100,000 mob gambling debt and hiring a hitman to kill him. Raviv negotiated a 20-year sentence, down from what would normally be life without parole, by testifying against the hitman, who died of a heart attack while awaiting extradition trial. Kiriakou later engineered a violent beating against Raviv after Raviv called him a "rat" for being summoned to the lieutenant's office for a Jake Tapper interview.
Larry Raviv was a fellow federal prisoner of John Kiriakou, convicted of murder-for-hire.
The crime
Raviv owed the mob $100,000 in gambling debts he could not pay. He took out a life insurance policy on his business partner and hired a hitman to kill him. Both men were caught; Raviv negotiated a 20-year sentence — down from what would normally be life without parole — by testifying against the hitman, who died of a heart attack while awaiting his extradition trial.[1]
Conflict with Kiriakou
After Kiriakou was summoned to the prison lieutenant’s office for a Jake Tapper interview, Raviv called him a “rat” within earshot of another inmate, Truck. Kiriakou retaliated by telling Truck that Raviv had called Truck a pedophile. Truck, without a word, walked over and beat Raviv unconscious, fracturing his skull and requiring a helicopter medevac.[2]
