Sean Caddle Archives - Page 2 of 2

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...

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...

Weeks after admitting to a murder-for-hire plot, Caddle still voted in N.J. election

January 28, 2022 12:04 pm

Sean Caddle, the Democratic political operative who pleaded guilty to a murder-for-hire scheme this week, entered into a plea agreement in late September and then voted by mail in the last general election a few weeks later. The Sussex County...

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...