Veteran legislator Raymond Lesniak has filed a libel suit against news website Patch.com over an article suggesting he arranged the murder of his late wife.

Lesniak’s suit, filed Wednesday in Union County Superior Court, takes issue with an article published on Patch that discusses Sean Caddle, a political consultant who pleaded guilty in January to hiring two people to kill an associate. The Patch article stated that Caddle’s prosecution prompted investigators to take a new look at the death of Lesniak’s wife, Salena Carroll, 43, who died in July 2019. Carroll’s cause of death was listed as atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

Raymond Lesniak. Courtesy photo

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