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Money, Mobsters, Murder; The sordid tale of a GOP lobbyist's casino deal gone bad.
Weekly Standard ^ | 11/28/05 | Matthew Continetti

Posted on 12/08/2005 6:42:17 PM PST by churchillbuff

Little attention has been paid to [Jack] Abramoff's relationship with Adam Kidan, or to Kidan's relationship with the mob. At first blush this is understandable. Between Boulis's murder in early 2001 and the recent arrests of Moscatiello, Ferrari, and Fiorillo, little was known about the circumstances of the shooting. But it is now clear that Gus Boulis links all these men. He sold SunCruz [Casino cruise ships] to Kidan and Abramoff six months before he was murdered. The sale was highly irregular, and afterwards Boulis feuded constantly with Kidan and Abramoff about how the company should be run. Kidan, moreover, had known Anthony Moscatiello, the man allegedly at the center of the conspiracy to murder Boulis, since the early 1990s.

In fact the story of SunCruz Casinos is less remote from the better-known tale of Abramoff's Washington wheeling and dealing than one might think. There are three chief similarities. Leading players in the Washington saga make cameo appearances in re SunCruz (Michael Scanlon, Scanlon's old boss Tom DeLay, and Ohio Republican congressman Bob Ney). In both stories the action unfolds against the backdrop of casino politics. And the moral in both is the same: the blinding allure of money; the black depths of human avarice and greed.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 109th; abramoff; adamkidan; boulis; casino; gusboulis; hitpiece; kidan; mob; organizedcrime; witchhunt

1 posted on 12/08/2005 6:42:18 PM PST by churchillbuff
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To: churchillbuff

Read later ping.


2 posted on 12/08/2005 6:48:00 PM PST by i_dont_chat (Houston, TX)
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To: churchillbuff

Heard this on Michale Savage tonight. Thank you for posting.


3 posted on 12/08/2005 6:48:27 PM PST by Esther Ruth (I have loved thee with an EVERLASTING LOVE, Jeremiah 31:3 Genesis 12:1-3 ***ZECH 12:3)
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To: churchillbuff

Something is fishy here. Abramoff once worked for Tom Delay and Delay is from Texas and both Bush and Cheney lived in Texas! Good enough for me,
IT`S ALL GEORGE BUSH`S FAULT


4 posted on 12/08/2005 6:48:56 PM PST by bybybill (GOD help us if the Rats win)
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To: churchillbuff

But is he responsible for the deaths of dozens of people who were friends with or known the Clintons?


5 posted on 12/08/2005 6:59:55 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (JOE WILSON IS A MUTHAFAKING LIAR)
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To: bybybill

Yeah, I'm sure liberals don't do this kind of stuff! (sarcasm)


6 posted on 12/08/2005 7:00:09 PM PST by MadManDan
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To: churchillbuff

Good article.

Did you catch whether the mobsters who killed Kidon's mother were connected to the mobsters he later allegedly contacted to knock off Boulis?


7 posted on 12/08/2005 7:14:26 PM PST by Shermy
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To: WestCoastGal; DAVEY CROCKETT; Calpernia; Velveeta; MamaDearest; LucyT; jer33 3; all4one

Ping


8 posted on 12/08/2005 8:30:06 PM PST by nw_arizona_granny (THE ENEMY IS WITHIN!!Google search: DSA members in Congress (finds elected communists.))
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To: churchillbuff

So what. The RATS get away with worse than this every day. Until they start going to jail, I don't care about Abramoff. At least he was helping raise money for good people.


9 posted on 12/08/2005 8:59:22 PM PST by balch3
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To: churchillbuff

At least we conservatives, and some Republicans (I'm not one) acutally weed out the bad folks while the liberals and Dems back theirs up by attacking the accusers regardless of how many laws they break.


10 posted on 12/08/2005 9:01:14 PM PST by Fledermaus (Please explain the difference between Al-Qaeda and the Left? Anyone? Anyone?)
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To: churchillbuff

Thanks for posting this.
It's past-time that conservatives be forthright about these sordid affairs.
Heck, even "America's Most Wanted" mentioned that the FBI has yet to
interview Mr. Abramoff about the Florida situation.


11 posted on 12/09/2005 3:49:04 AM PST by VOA
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