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New Jersey tech boss Paul Caneiro scored a giant win earlier than his quadruple homicide trial even started when a choose dominated to maintain secret that the feminine pal he allegedly lavished presents upon with stolen cash was his mistress, courtroom paperwork reveal.
Yisel Restrepo, 51, was launched to jurors as an in depth buddy when she testified Tuesday in regards to the posh holidays and a luxurious automotive the alleged killer showered on her — as a result of Choose Marc Lemieux dominated that their affair was “prejudicial,” in line with a courtroom order filed in August.
Attorneys for Caneiro, 59, had argued their romance may “mislead the jury into an ethical judgment” — and insisted it was “irrelevant” as a result of his spouse “was conscious” of the dishonest and continued to dwell with him anyway, in line with the order obtained by The Publish.
Caneiro had allegedly been swiping cash from his brother, Keith Caneiro, to pay for his lover’s Audi Q5 SUV lease in 2018 when his enterprise associate brother accused him of stealing, prosecutors stated.
Caneiro additionally paid for Restrepo to journey with him twice to her house nation of Colombia and for his or her jaunts to Las Vegas, North Carolina, Boston and New York, Restrepo testified.
Caneiro looked for actual property listings in Florida and New Jersey for Restrepo and her daughter with the intent of ultimately residing with them, the courtroom papers state. He typically took her to gun capturing ranges and ceaselessly texted her within the days and weeks earlier than the killings.
Caneiro is accused of slaughtering his brother Keith and his sibling’s household at their Colts Neck mansion in November 2018.
Restrepo testified on Tuesday that she and Caneiro met at a restaurant in Asbury Park and have become greatest buddies as she laid out his monetary help of her. The jurors have been barred from listening to that Caneiro and Restrepo have been having intercourse.
Caneiro paid almost $10,000 for Restrepo to lease the Audi in line with testimony given by detective Det. Debra Bassinder throughout the trial final week.
He additionally paid $2,673 in 2017 for Restrepo to hire an house with a balcony on the Woodshire complicated on leafy block of Ocean Township, NJ, in line with Bassinder and prosecutors. She testified, nonetheless, that she paid him again for the one time he lined her hire.
Though prosecutors didn’t cite funding his alleged affair with Restrepo as a motive for homicide because the trial kicked off final week, they stated he was pushed to kill by “greed and desperation.”
Paul is accused of first gunning down Keith, 50, exterior the household’s $1.5 million Colt’s Neck mansion in November 2018 after reducing energy to the house.
He allegedly then fatally shot Keith’s spouse, Jennifer, 45, earlier than stabbing to demise his younger niece and nephew, Sophia and Jesse, and setting hearth to their house.
Caneiro was allegedly shelling out at the least $85,000 on excessive finish vehicles, together with leases on three Porsches and a Jeep Wrangler whereas his tech enterprise, Sq. One, was tanking, prosecutors stated.
He allegedly swiped $78,000 from his youthful brother, who angrily confronted his sibling in regards to the lacking money hours earlier than he was murdered.
On Wednesday, the jury heard that Caneiro set a second hearth at his own residence in Ocean Township to make it appear to be he was additionally being focused.
Ocean Police Division Officer David Marino Jr. testified about seeing indicators the blaze had been deliberately began at Caneiro’s house.
He noticed “a pink gasoline can that was on its aspect and there was additionally burn marks on the door trim of the storage door space and there was burn marks and gasoline on a portion of the [Porsche] Macan and there was smoke harm as effectively on it,” Marino stated.
Caneiro faces as much as life in jail with out the opportunity of parole if convicted on the highest prices, which embody homicide, aggravated arson, weapons possession and theft.
He’s pleaded not responsible and has been jailed with out bail since his arrest on Nov. 21, 2018.
