Stewart indicated he would pay for the murders and asked the confidential source to find a hitman. In the summer of 2021, Stewart and a confidential source discussed the murder of Stewart’s ex-wife and her daughter. Judge Neals imposed the sentence on May 2, 2023, in Newark federal court.Īccording to documents filed in this case and statements made in court: District Judge Julien Xavier Neals to an information charging him with one count of the use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of a murder for hire. Michael Stewart, 69, of Monroe Township, New Jersey, previously pleaded guilty before U.S.
– A Middlesex County man was sentenced to 97 months in prison for plotting to pay a purported hitman to kill his ex-wife and her daughter, U.S.