Malliband, whose body with multiple bullet wounds was found several days later stuffed in a 55-gallon drum, had been carrying $27,000. 31, 1980, after he met with Kuklinski, who was to sell him video tapes, Carroll told the judge. The first victim, George Malliband, 42, of Huntingdon, Pa., was killed Jan. He is charged with five counts of murder, six weapons violations, three counts of robbery and one count each of attempted murder and attempted robbery, Carroll said. Later, he told reporters, ″This is unwarranted, unnecessary. Kuklinski did not speak as he stood handcuffed in court. Carroll said Kuklinski had large sums of money in Swiss bank accounts and a reservation for a flight to Switzerland. Judge Peter Ciolino set bail and ordered Kuklinski to surrender his passport. Kukliski’s wife Barbara was charged with disorderly conduct for trying to prevent the arrest, Edwards said. They were arrested at a roadblock one block away. The two planned the murder during the past two months, he said.Įarly Wednesday, the agent gave Kuklinski a fake packet of cyanide for him to commit the murder that day, Edwards said.Īs planned, Kuklinski returned to his home in the fashionable New York City suburb of Dumont, and about two hours later, he and his wife drove away, said Edwards. The agent proposed that they set up and murder the ″buyer,″ he said. ″He murdered for profit.″Īn undercover federal agent met Kuklinski in August, and concocted a story about a man willing to pay $85,000 for drugs, Edwards said. Cary Edwards told a news conference after a judge Wednesday set bail for Kuklinski at $2 million. ″He set individuals up for business deals, they would disappear and the money would end up in his hands,″ state Attorney General W.
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