was a target,” Merendino’s friend Chuck Hart told People.com. “This was a cold-blooded killing for profit by a snake in the grass that deserves to rot.”

Merendino grew up in Beaumont, Texas and inherited his fortune from his parents, who both worked for ExxonMobil.

The two men connected when Merendino hired Meza as an escort through an online ad while vacationing in San Diego in June 2013.

“He bought him sports cars and motorcycles,” friend Donna Armani Pineda told People.com. “David didn’t want for anything.”

In the months before the murder, Merendino made Meza the beneficiary of his condo and wrote up a will on hotel letterhead in December of 2014 leaving him his fortune.NCRI Iran News | Economy

Iran : Gasoline prices increase

The Iranian regime has increased the prices of semi-subsidized and free market gasoline. The semi-subsidized gasoline will be presented at 7,000 rails per litter. It was previously sold at 4,000 rials.

For citizens in Iran, the skyrocketing price of gasoline in relation to the value of their national currency, the rial, is shocking.

In 2007 when fuel was rationed for the first time there was widespread protests in Iran. With that memories, the Iranian regime's state security forces have been put on alert.

The surge in prices coincides with troubling economic conditions that include steep inflation, a sharply devalued currency and high unemployment.

The increase in gasoline prices follows this month surge in public transportation costs by up to 25 per cent. Taxi, metro