Sean Caddle 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,...

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...

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...

Lesniak slams reporter for ‘untrue’ story linking Caddle to Norcross

January 28, 2022 10:14 pmJanuary 29, 2022 7:29 pm

A Gothamist reporter who tied Sean Caddle, the Democratic political consultant who admitted to his role in a murder-for-hire scheme, to a top New Jersey powerbroker is acting irresponsibly, according to Raymond Lesniak, a former state senator who hired Caddle...