New Jersey man sentenced for hitman plot to kill ex-wife and her daughter
Michael Stewart of Monroe Township, Middlesex County, received a near-maximum sentence this week under a plea agreement for orchestrating a murder-for-hire plot targeting his ex-wife and her daughter. Stewart will serve almost the entire sentence due to the absence of parole in the federal prison system. Believing he had found a trustworthy accomplice, Stewart sought help in locating someone he could pay to carry out the murders. To communicate with the contact and others, he …