SICILIAN ‘SLAY’ MOBSTER IN BX. BUST By Social Links forKati Cornell Smith Published April 16, 2005, 4:00 a.m. ET The feds have nabbed a reputed Sicilian mobster wanted in Italy for allegedly helping a notorious Mafia boss evade arrest in the high-profile 1992 assassination of a judge.
After nearly 10 years on the lam, Giuseppe Baldinucci, 61, was arrested in The Bronx yesterday morning and hit with new charges for entering the country illegally. He was held without bail at an arraignment in Brooklyn federal court.
Italian authorities had long sought Baldinucci’s arrest for aiding and abetting Giovanni “The Pig” Brusca, who hid from the law after he assassinated famed Italian Magistrate Giovanni Falcone.
Known as an anti-Mafia crusader, Falcone, his wife and three bodyguards died when Brusca blew up the judge’s car.
Baldinucci is no stranger to New York – his criminal record here dates to the 1970s. He was previously deported in 1989 after a conviction on narcotics-conspiracy charges.
