Judge orders escaped art dealer returned to N.J.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. --A former art dealer will be sent back to New Jersey to face new charges for escaping from a federal prison camp.
Rocco DeSimone waived his right Wednesday to hold an initial court hearing in Rhode Island, his home state.
Prosecutors say DeSimone escaped from a minimum-security prison camp in Fairton, N.J., on March 15. He surrendered four days later to federal authorities in Providence.
He allegedly escaped with the help of wife, Gail. She's been charged with harboring an escaped prisoner and has been ordered into home confinement.
DeSimone was sentenced in 2005 after being convicted of evading almost $423,000 in taxes when he sold paintings by Henri Matisse and impressionists Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. 