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Fairfield County Man Charged With Insurance Fraud Over $27K Diamond Ring Fairfield County Man Charged With Insurance Fraud Over $27K Diamond Ring
Fairfield County Man Charged With Insurance Fraud Over $27K Diamond Ring A 44-year-old Connecticut man was arrested for filing a bogus insurance claim on a diamond ring valued at $27,000, authorities said. Fairfield County resident Duke Quarshie, of Norwalk, was issued a payment from Assurant Insurance Company in 2016 for a claim regarding the ring in New Jersey, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. On June 2, 2021, Quarshie was living in North Bergen, New Jersey when filed a second claim for the same piece of jewelry, the prosecutor said. Quarshie was charged with one count of insurance fraud and arrested at the Hudson County Prosecutor’s Office i…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Career Criminal From Fairfield County Admits Committing Murder-For-Hire Of Politician Career Criminal From Fairfield County Admits Committing Murder-For-Hire Of Politician
Career Criminal From Fairfield County Admits Committing Murder-For-Hire Of Politician A hardened ex-con from Fairfield County admitted that he and a longtime criminal pal from Philadelphia stabbed a political consultant to death and then torched his New Jersey apartment in a murder-for-hire attack. George Bratsenis, age 73, of Monroe, said he and his partner were paid to whack Michael Galdieri, the son of former State Sen. James Galdieri in New Jersey and a prominent figure in local politics. Bratsenis and the other killer, Bomani Africa, age 61, were hired by onetime political operative Sean Caddle, who’d been an aide to former State Sen. Ray Lesniak and previously worked …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Political Operative Admits Paying Two Men, Including One From CT, To Kill Associate NJ Political Operative Admits Paying Two Men, Including One From CT, To Kill Associate
NJ Political Operative Admits Paying Two Men, Including One From CT, To Kill Associate A New Jersey-based political consultant admitted that he hired two hitmen, including one from Connecticut, to kill a longtime associate who had worked for him on various election campaigns, federal authorities said. Sean Caddle, 44, a former aide to former New Jersey State Sen. Ray Lesniak (D-Elizabeth) paid the killers -- with the other from Pennsylvania -- to get rid of Michael Galdieri, the son of former State Sen. James Galdieri (D-Jersey City) and a prominent figure in local Hudson County politics. Galdieri, 52, was stabbed to death in May 2014 before his Jersey City apartmen…

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by Jerry DeMarco