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A Massachusetts husband and father-of-three pleaded guilty on Thursday to accidentally hiring an undercover FBI agent to kill his wife amid their messy divorce.

Massimo Marenghi, 56, faces nearly a decade behind bars for his failed murder-for-hire case against his wife in 2021.

Marenghi was put on law enforcement's radar on January 1, 2021, when an unidentified individual reported he asked them for help in killing his wife after complaining she was filing a restraining order against him.

Later on, 'the individual introduced Marenghi to an undercover agent who posed as a contract killer' and offered them $10,000 in cash to 'eliminate the problem,' according to the US Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts.

He will be sentenced on June 8.