ruthann aron
Ruthann Aron at her first trial in February. [1]
Even before her arrest Monday for allegedly plotting to murder her husband and a Baltimore attorney, Ruthann Aron was one of the most unusual politicians in Montgomery County. [2]
Nearly three years passed between the ghastly events in the Catskills and the arrest of Ruthann Aron last June. [3]
County Council members voted unanimously Tuesday to remove Ruthann Aron from the Montgomery County Planning Board, saying that a long term absence or voting by proxy would not work. [4]
At 54, police say, the wealthy Montgomery politician tried to hire a hit man to kill her husband and another man. [3]
Montgomery County politician Ruthann Aron was ordered yesterday to serve three years in the county jail for trying to hire a hit man to kill her husband and a lawyer under a sentence that a judge said will punish her but also allow her to get psychiatric help. [1]
, in Brooklyn, New York) is a former politician and real estate developer who unsuccessfully ran for a place in the 1994 US Senate. [5]
Aron, 54, who sought the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 1994, is charged with two counts of solicitation to commit murder and one count each of attempted murder in the first degree, poisoning of food and attempted poisoning. [4]
They found the body of Ruthann Aron’s father in the cellar of the house where she grew up. [3]
When that didn’t work, she allegedly tried to hire a hit man to kill her husband, Barry Aron, a urologist, and Arthur Kahn, a Baltimore attorney who testified against Aron in a defamation case. [4]
Phil Gramm and Al D’Amato her mentors one year, referring to liberal Republican icons Jacob Javits and John Lindsay as role models the next. [2]
The Montgomery County politician stands charged with soliciting a would-be hit man to do away with her husband, Barry Aron, and a lawyer named Arthur Kahn. [3]
Ferretti also sentenced Aron to five years in prison for soliciting the murder of her husband of more than 30 years, Potomac urologist Barry Aron, but suspended all but 18 months. [...] Aron, 56, dabbed at her eyes as Circuit Court Judge Vincent E. Ferretti Jr. pronounced sentence at the end of an emotional, daylong hearing during which she gave her first public explanation of how, as a wealthy Potomac developer in the midst of planning a campaign for the Montgomery County Council, she ended up calmly ordering hits on two men. [...] For soliciting the murder of Arthur Kahn, a lawyer who had testified against Aron in a lawsuit stemming from her failed U.S. Senate campaign in 1994, Ferretti sentenced Aron to 10 years in prison with all but 35 months suspended. [1]
Sources:
[1] Washingtonpost.com: Aron Gets Three Years in Murder Plot
[2] Aron battled often in life, work
[3] Washingtonpost.com: The Mystery of Ruthann Aron
[4] County Council ousts Aron
[5] Ruthann Aron - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia