Widow held without bail in 1990 killing

A New York woman charged with having her cheating millionaire husband killed in 1990 was ordered held without bail after pleading not guilty.

Prosecutors laid out many of their arguments for Barbara Kogan's guilt Wednesday as they argued that she should remain in jail pending trial, the New York Post reported. Her lawyer, Barry Levin, said that George Kogan stiffed everybody and could have been targeted by a lot of people he encountered in business.

George Kogan was mortally wounded by a gunman who shot him as he carried a bag of groceries into his mistress's apartment building on the Upper East Side in Manhattan.

She was a very angry woman and, perhaps, she had a right to be, said Joel Seidemann, the lead prosecutor. But when that anger became so overwhelming, she decided to litigate the divorce through the bullets of a gun.

Seidemann said that Kogan had her hair done while her husband was in surgery and tried to get his mistress to return jewelry immediately after his death.