Former IRS Officer Sentenced to Life for Orchestrated Murder-for-Hire Plot
A former Internal Revenue Service law enforcement officer, Brendan Banfield, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Friday in Fairfax County, Virginia, for his role in the calculated 2023 murders of his wife and a secondary victim. Prosecutors successfully argued that Banfield, 39, conspired with the family’s au pair, Juliana…