Man I don't understand how some people operate, if this fucker cost some people I know any time in jail there would be about ten crack addicts trying to kill him. I don't know about Cali, but where I come from you can get low level gang members to kill someone for under $10K and that is a fact. This guy fucked with some people with alot of money. When you can't be a man and face the penalties for your actions and try to be a rat to save your ass you should be killed, this is a truth that everyone I have ever worked with openly agrees to. Come on, what was the guy really looking at doing maybe 5 years actual time max, instead he will have to leave the country or constantly be wondering when someone is going to be around the next corner waiting to put a gun to his head, for the rest of his life - sleep well mother fucker.