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"Harry Hope" |
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19 Feb 2006 09:51:10 AM |
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What does indicted Republican Abramoff know about the Florida murder? |
Kidan pleaded guilty two months ago, along with mega-lobbyist Jack
Abramoff, to bank fraud charges in connection with the SunCruz
purchase.
From The Sun-Sentinel, 2/17/06:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-cboulis17feb17,0,943117.story?coll=sfla-news-broward
Boulis murder suspect was visited in jail by Boulis business rival
Kidan
By Jon Burstein
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
The day after police announced arrests in SunCruz Casino founder
Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis' murder, a business rival of Boulis paid one
of the suspects a jailhouse visit, records show.
Adam Kidan saw Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello at Rikers Island jail in
New York City on Sept. 29, making the businessman the only person
outside Moscatiello's family and attorneys who visited the alleged mob
associate his first 16 days behind bars, records show.
Before Boulis' Feb. 6, 2001, drive-by execution, Kidan and Boulis had
been locked in a bitter fight over control of the Dania Beach-based
gambling ship fleet.
The revelation of Kidan's face-to-face with Moscatiello came in more
than 400 pages of police records reviewed this week by the South
Florida Sun-Sentinel.
Defense attorneys in the high-profile murder case say the
just-released documents raise more questions, injecting new players
into the proceedings, including one who has been implicated by two
jailhouse informants as participating in the murder.
One of the police reports also states that surveillance tape from a
Wendy's Restaurant on Southeast 17th Street in Fort Lauderdale, two
blocks from where Boulis was ambushed, shows murder defendant James
"Pudgy' Fiorillo ordering food less than three hours before the
shooting.
In an undated 36-page report outlining the case against the Boulis
murder suspects, Broward State Attorney's Office investigator Art
Carbo wrote that the tape proves Fiorillo was "in the immediate area
of the homicide scene."
Yet prosecutors haven't specifically listed the tape as part of the
evidence they could present at trial.
Carbo, a retired Fort Lauderdale police detective who had headed the
Boulis investigation, didn't mention the tape when he testified last
month about the case.
Defense attorneys said they didn't know a tape existed until they read
Carbo's report last week.
And a Broward Sheriff's Office analysis of a VHS tape in the case
found that identifiable images could not be produced, records show.
Defense attorneys said the only videotape they are aware of in the
case is the one from the Wendy's.
Officials from the State Attorney's Office declined to comment.
Moscatiello, Fiorillo and a third man -- Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari
-- could face the death penalty if convicted of plotting and carrying
out the gangland-style slaying of the Miami Subs founder.
Boulis was ambushed moments after he left his Fort Lauderdale office.
One car stopped in front of Boulis' BMW, while a black Mustang pulled
alongside the self-made millionaire and sprayed him with bullets.
Authorities have said that evidence pointing to the three men's
involvement includes a former bodyguard who said he was recruited to
be part of the plot and phone records that apparently place Fiorillo,
28, and Ferrari, 44, within 500 feet of the shooting site.
But defense attorneys argue that the former bodyguard, Dwayne
Nicholson, failed parts of three lie detector tests and his recent
court testimony is inconsistent with accounts he has given.
Prosecutors have suggested the three defendants killed Boulis to
ensure he didn't take back control of SunCruz from Kidan.
While Kidan ran SunCruz, he had paid $145,000 in consulting fees to
companies tied to Moscatiello, who had admitted ties to the Gambino
crime family and late mob boss John Gotti, according to court records.
A company controlled by Ferrari received an additional $95,000 for
security from Kidan's SunCruz, court records show.
Kidan has denied any role in the murder plot and has not been charged
in the case.
When reached by phone this week, Kidan said he couldn't comment about
the meeting and referred calls to his attorney, Joseph Conway.
Conway declined to detail the meeting other than to say it was a
"personal one" between two men who had been doing business together
for more than 15 years.
Conway said that while the jail visit may appear to be suspicious, the
passing of time has proven otherwise.
"As this case has proceeded, it's clear that Mr. Kidan is not
considered a suspect," Conway said.
Conway said Kidan remains ready to testify against Moscatiello and
Moscatiello's co-defendants as part of a deal he cut with federal
prosecutors.
Kidan pleaded guilty two months ago, along with mega-lobbyist Jack
Abramoff, to bank fraud charges in connection with the SunCruz
purchase.
Moscatiello's attorney, David Bogenschutz, declined to comment on the
jailhouse visit.
Moscatiello, 67, has told detectives he had nothing to do with the
murder, blaming Ferrari and Fiorillo for carrying it out without his
knowledge, court records show.
Bogenschutz and H. Dohn Williams, Fiorillo's attorney, said the
recently released batch of police documents will figure heavily into
their cross-examinations of Carbo when a bond hearing resumes Feb. 24.
They said Carbo's undated overview report outlining the case reads
like no homicide report they've ever seen -- a narrative sometimes
jumping back and forth in time that references interviews with people
without providing dates.
The last entry in the report deals with a May 22, 2003, interview.
There are no details in the overview report of any investigative work
done between that point and the defendants' September 2005 indictment.
Carbo wrote that in spring 2003, two inmates at the Federal Detention
Center in Miami said they had jailhouse conversations with murder
suspect Paul Brandreth about Boulis' murder.
The inmates said Brandreth had confessed he was in the vehicle that
boxed in Boulis' BMW the night of the shooting.
Brandreth is awaiting trial in Miami-Dade County in connection with
January 2002 murder.
He is serving a 19-year federal prison sentence for gun and drug
convictions.
When authorities went to interview Brandreth in March 2003, he denied
any role in the killing, but said Moscatiello had hired him for
$10,000 to kill three people involved in Boulis' murder:
Fiorillo and two people whose names he couldn't remember.
Brandreth went to New York for a sit-down with Moscatiello, but later,
"issues surfaced that made it impossible for the murder to take
place," Carbo wrote.
Moscatiello told police after his arrest that he has never heard of
Brandreth.
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"Kidan pleaded guilty two months ago, along with mega-lobbyist Jack
Abramoff, to bank fraud charges in connection with the SunCruz
purchase."
Where does Republican Jackie Abramoff fit in?
Harry
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| Title: What does Republican Joe Scarborough know about this Florida murder? |
19 Feb 2006 10:02:06 AM |
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http://www.americanpolitics.com/20010808Klausutis.html
Lori Klausutis. Staffer, found dead in Joe Scarborough's district office.
Medical examiner ruled death not due to foul play.
But vital questions were never answered:
1) If Lori's death was just a simple accident, then why did Rep. Scarborough
and his spokesman Miguel Serrano feel the need to go to two different local
TV stations within three hours of her body's being found and invent a
nonexistent history of chronic medical conditions for
her -- in other words, why did they feel the need to lie about Lori's
health?
2) Would you trust without question the word of a Medical Examiner who lost
his ME license in two separate states (Missouri and Florida) because he LIED
about his autopsy work (for instance, saying he had autopsied some brains
when he hadn't)?
3) Why should whoever wrote Ms. Klausutis's obituary feel it was appropriate
to mention nearly everything about her life -- EXCEPT where she'd been
working since 1999?
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