Political consultant gets 24 years for paying hitmen to kill a colleague
A New Jersey political consultant has been sentenced to 24 years in federal prison for arranging the murder of a colleague NEWARK, N.J. -- A New Jersey political consultant who had two hitmen kill a colleague for $15,000 was sentenced to 24 years in federal prison on Thursday. Sean Caddle, a 45-year-old former Democratic campaign consultant, pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit murder-for-hire in the killing of Michael Galdieri, whose apartment was set on fire after he was fatally stabbed in 2014. U.S. District Judge John Michael Vazquez sounded skeptical of Caddle's acceptance of any responsibility, saying it sounded as if he was trying to “save his own skin” by cooperating with prosecutors in a separate tax and wire fraud case that led to a guilty plea from a former top aide to the state Senate president. “This is one of the most unusual and certainly one of the most heinous crimes I’ve encountered as a judge,” Vazquez said. Caddle, who had been out of prison on house arrest, w...