HARLEM MAN WHO WAS HIRED BY MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER TO KILL HIM FOR INSURANCE PLEADS GUILTY TO MANSLAUGHTER

KENNETH MINOR

The ​so-called ​“Harlem Kevorkian” who admitted to assisting in the 2009 suicide of a Long Island motivational speaker pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter charges as part of a plea deal that will land him in prison for 12 years.


Kenneth Minor, 42, copped to first-degree manslaughter in the 2009 killing of Jeffrey Locker, who had hired him to stab him to death in his ​parked ​car in Harlem.

Minor had tried to make the life coach’s murder look like a botched robbery so his family could cash in on an $18 million insurance policy.

Justice Laura Ward is expected to sentence him Oct​.​ 20​ to the promised term and five years’ post-release supervision. He’s already served over five years in prison.​​

In 2011, Minor was convicted of murder and sentenced to 20 years, but a higher court overturned the verdict on the grounds that the trial judge improperly instructed the jury.

Defense attorney Daniel Gotlin wasn’t entirely satisfied with the agreement reached with Manhattan prosecutors and still plans to appeal.

“This is a compromise — the plea,” he said. “I do not believe the facts of this case warrant manslaughter in the first degree.”

Assisted suicide falls under second-degree manslaughter in New York and Gotlin has argued that this is the appropriate rap for Minor.

“He wants finality. He wants this to be over,” said Gotlin of why his client took the deal. “He knows he did something wrong and he’s willing to accept a punishment.”

Locker, who’d co-authored a self-help book and gave workshops on coping with stress, hired Minor after investing $300 million in a Ponzi scheme that left him broke.