Sean Caddle Archives - New Jersey Globe

Sacco struggles to deliver votes in Democratic primary

June 16, 2025 8:56 pmJune 17, 2025 11:55 pm

There are signs that the 40-year reign of North Bergen Mayor Nicholas Sacco is nearing an end after a series of losses in last week’s Hudson County Democratic Civil War show a significant decline in his mojo; he once had...

Tony Teixeira will plead guilty to tax evasion, mail fraud (Updated)

October 28, 2022 6:29 pmOctober 29, 2022 5:32 pm

Tony Teixeira, the chief of staff for Senate President Nick Scutari (D-Linden) and a major player in Union County politics, will plead guilty to charges of income tax evasion and mail fraud next month, the New Jersey Globe has learned...

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,...

Sellinger gives top two spots in U.S. Attorney’s office to Bridgegate prosecutors

March 14, 2022 1:26 pm

U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger today named Vikas Khanna as First Assistant U.S. Attorney and Lee Cortes as Executive Assistant U.S. Attorney, giving his office’s most powerful roles to two of the government’s prosecutors in the Bridgegate case. “Vikas is a...

Lesniak sues Patch for implicating him in wife’s death

March 10, 2022 2:00 amJuly 26, 2022 11:38 am

Former State Sen. Raymond Lesniak has filed a libel and defamation lawsuit against Patch alleging libel and defamation after the local news website published a story in January alleging that a murder-for-hire scheme involving political consultant Sean Caddle had renewed...

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...