WASHINGTON: A bartender plotted to murder House Speaker John Boehner after hearing voices in his head telling him that the senior US lawmaker was "the devil," police documents obtained by an Ohio TV station showed.

Michael Hoyt worked at Wetherington Country Club in West Chester, in Boehner's home state of Ohio, and served drinks to the speaker on numerous occasions, according to a US Capitol Police affidavit published by WCPO in Cincinnati.

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