Peled, Brockway and Carey agreed to try stopping the extortion attempt, according to the indictment.
Peled owned Speartip Security, a security firm in Austin that advertised services for responding to extortion demands, the indictment said. According to prosecutors, Peled was once part of the Israeli Defense Forces, while Brockway and Carey are former active-duty Marines. Brockway owned Ink Force — another security company in Austin — and Carey worked as an independent contractor for other security companies, the indictment said.
An unnamed person sent Peled an “intelligence report” about Williams on March 5, the indictment said. According to the document, Maund withdrew $15,000 from his Bank of America account that day. Two sums totaling that amount were later deposited into Peled’s personal and business bank accounts, the indictment said.
During the first half of March, Carey surveilled Williams and Lanway, prosecutors said. He attempted to communicate with the pair via the communications app Pinger and went so far as to find both her address and vehicle, according to the indictment.
Peled received a document, called “Tennessee Sitrep,” with that information, the indictment said.
Things came to a head on March 12, when Maund transferred $150,000 via wire from his Bank of America account to a J.P. Morgan account controlled by Peled, the indictment said.
Later that day, Brockway and Carey confronted Williams and Lanway in the parking lot of Williams’ apartment complex, the indictment said. According to the document, the men shot and killed Lanway in the parking lot, then drove Williams to a Nashville construction site, where they also shot and killed her. Their bodies were left there, the indictment said.
According to the indictment, Brockway rented a vehicle from Hertz on March 11 and used it to meet up with Carey, then returned it on March 13.
The four went their separate ways, prosecutors said, and Maund allegedly transferred “in excess” of $750,000 from his bank account to Peled’s to pay for the contract killings.
