ALBANY — A Colonie man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after he orchestrated a plan with a confidential informant to kill his romantic rival and have his body fed to pigs at a Pennsylvania farm.
Jeal Sutherland, 58, pleaded guilty to the use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire in May. He was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court by Judge Mae D’Agostino to 87 months in prison.
Federal authorities, relying on a wire-wearing confidential informant who had been implicated in a car bombing, laid out that murder-for-hire plot in a criminal complaint against Sutherland filed in January 2025…