Justice Department Announces Murder-For-Hire and Related Charges Against IRGC Asset and Two Local Operatives

The Justice Department has charged three individuals—Farhad Shakeri of Iran, Carlisle Rivera of Brooklyn, and Jonathon Loadholt of Staten Island—in connection with an alleged murder-for-hire plot targeting a U.S. citizen of Iranian origin in New York. Shakeri is identified as an asset of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The criminal complaint details their involvement in the conspiracy to commit murder.