George Bratsenis is set to be sentenced in August in New Jersey after admitting his role in a murder-for-hire scheme.
in 2014 in a murder-for-hire scheme orchestrated by a prominent New Jersey political operative was sentenced Tuesday to 96 months in federal prison in an unrelated bank robbery that year in Connecticut.
“I’m not the same man I was 91 months ago. ...I turned my life around because I had a rude awakening with this cancer.”“I have to deal with it,” he said of his criminal past. “I have to live with it. That’s the way it goes.” From 1983 to 2010, he did time for federal and state charges that included convictions for jewelry store thefts in New Jersey. After 25 years behind bars, he got out, later reconnected with Africa, and they began committing bank robberies in 2014.
But that was before Bratsenis pleaded guilty last month in New Jersey federal court to conspiracy to travel across state lines to murder Michael Galdieri, who was found stabbed to death in a Jersey City apartment in 2014.admitted earlier this yearA motive remains unclear, but speculation has captivated the New Jersey political world, as Caddle is free on bail and continues to cooperate with federal authorities, according to his attorney.
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