Michael Galdieri Archives - New Jersey Globe

Caddle sentencing postponed until December

April 12, 2022 6:08 pmApril 12, 2022 6:12 pm

Sean Caddle, the New Jersey political consultant who had admitted his role in a murder-for-hire scheme, won’t be sentenced until December 7. U.S. District Court Judge John Michael Vazquez signed an order today rescheduling Caddle’s sentencing from June 7, court...

Bratsenis pleads guilty to Galdieri murder, admits to role in Caddle scheme

March 24, 2022 1:00 pmApril 3, 2022 7:43 pm

George Bratsenis, a career criminal from Connecticut, entered a guilty plea on Thursday to charges that he killed Michael Galdieri in a 2014 murder-for-hire scheme involving political consultant Sean Caddle. The hearing, which lasted a little more than a half-hour,...

Murphy says he may have briefly interacted with Caddle during 2017 campaign

February 2, 2022 3:15 pm

Gov. Phil Murphy said today that while he does not personally know Sean Caddle, the former political aide who admitted to hiring two men to kill an associate, he was likely in the same room as Caddle during the 2017...

Dispatches from a wild week in N.J. politics

January 28, 2022 10:19 pm

The 2021 elections are over, the next major set of elections aren’t for four months, and the state legislature has only just started to rev up its 2022-23 session – and yet it’s still been an action-packed week in New...

Following Caddle admission, Mark Sheridan asks for new look at parents’ death

January 28, 2022 1:08 pmJanuary 29, 2022 2:24 pm

Mark Sheridan, the son of a politically powerful lawyer who died with his wife under mysterious circumstances in 2014, sent a letter to acting Attorney General Andrew Bruck and Somerset County Prosecutor Michael Robertson today asking them to reconsider his...

Killers named in Caddle murder-for-hire case

January 26, 2022 3:24 pm

According to Politico NJ’s Matt Friedman, the two hitmen hired by political aide Sean Caddle to murder Michael Galdieri were Bomani Africa and George Bratsenis; Africa pleaded guilty to a federal charge of interstate conspiracy to commit murder today. Africa...

N.J. Political consultant pleads guilty in murder-for-hire case

January 25, 2022 5:42 pmJanuary 26, 2022 3:09 pm

Sean Caddle, a former aide to former State Sen. Ray Lesniak (D-Elizabeth) and a Democratic political consultant, has admitted to his role in a 2014 murder-for-hire case, U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger announced today. The victim was Michael Galdieri, whose name...