# Larry Raviv

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*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.*

- **Conviction:** Murder-for-hire
- **Motive:** Owed the mob $100,000 in gambling debts
- **Method:** Took a life insurance policy on his business partner and hired a hitman
- **Sentence:** 20 years, negotiated down from life without parole, by testifying against the hitman

**Larry Raviv** was a fellow federal prisoner of [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/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]

## See also

- [John Kiriakou](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/john-kiriakou)
- [FCI Loretto](https://www.kiripedia.org/wiki/fci-loretto)

## Sources

1. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 29:47. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/
2. S2E4 With Friends Like These (2026-06-08), at 31:52. Recording: https://sphinx.acast.com/p/open/s/68e695c6d798804c9e4bbd13/e/6a2467ce4330c50bd3a659b9/media.mp3 · Transcript: https://www.kiripedia.org/sources/2026-06-08-dead-drop-s2e4-with-friends-like-these/

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