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The
MadCowMorningNews has learned
new details about revelations from
“Bagel Boy”
Adam Kidan,
convicted of fraud
in the
takeover of SunCruz Casino’s gambling
ships alongside former Republican
Party bagman & uber-lobbyist
Jack Abramoff in March.
Little had been heard
recently from the two men.
But that changed last week with
the news that Adam Kidan told investigators
recently
that he knew who
had murdered the gambling cruise
line’s founder, Konstantinos "Gus"
Boulis, a
crime which could
reach all the way to the Oval Office,
if only there were an opposition
party in America to investigate
it thoroughly.
Currently three men
from New York with connections to
the Gambino Family,
Anthony
"Big Tony"
Moscatiello, 68; Anthony
"Little Tony" Ferrari,
49; and James "Pudgy"
Fiorello, 28, are charged with
first-degree murder and could face
the death penalty if convicted.
Kidan has now stepped
forward to say that none of the
three men pulled the trigger. Instead,
Kidan is bravely pointing a finger
directly at...a dead guy.
"Dead guys can't turn state's
evidence, right?"
According
to Kidan, it was a man named John
Gurino who murdered Boulis
shortly after the gambling czar
left his Fort Lauderdale office
on Feb. 6, 2001.
Kidan previously had
denied knowing anything
about Boulis' slaying when police
interviewed him a month after the
murder.
Examining Kidan’s
claim offers some insight into how
the scandal is being played out.
In last
week’s stories about him, for
example, Adam Kidan was described,
as he always is in major media accounts,
as a “Long Island businessman.”
In reality Kidan is nothing of the
kind.
He doesn’t live on
Long Island, and he is anything
but a businessman,
a fact made clear when he wrote
checks
to the three Mob
figures currently in jail awaiting
trial for the hit totaling over
$200,000 in the weeks
before
Boulis’ gangland-style slaying.
While much remains
unknown about the dead man, John
Gurino, here's one thing
which will prove absolutely certain:
Kidan didn't write any unexplained
checks to Gurino, who has one other
useful distinction as well...
He’s
dead.
Intimidating Witnesses: A Primer
for Dunsky's
John Gurino was charged
with murder once, while he was still
alive, in New York.
His lawyer
was Bruce Cutler. Yep… That
Bruce Cutler… Gurino was
acquitted of murder charges stemming
from a drive-by shooting in which
the victim identified Gurino as
his shooter before he died.
A mortally wounded
John Vulcano, the victim of the
drive-by shooting, told detectives
just before he died, "John
Gurino shot me because he hates
me."
Queens County prosecutor
James Quinn told reporters for the
New York Times he has spent a lot
of time thinking about Gurino. Quinn
watched his murder case against
Gurino fall apart as the courtroom
filled with tough-looking men brought
in by defense attorney Bruce Cutler.
The prosecutor said
he still remembers Lincoln Town
Cars with Florida license tags pulling
up to the courthouse, bearing license
plates trumpeting Boca Raton.
Quinn said: "By
the end of the trial, there was
25 to 30 people sitting in the courtroom
on Gurino's side, all looking very
intimidating."
The
trial launched mob
defense attorney Cutler's career.
It persuaded Gotti, about to
become the head of the Gambino crime
family, to make Cutler his top lawyer,
the New York Times said.
An early lesson which came in useful
later
Several
years later, when John Gotti himself
was finally convicted, Gurino led
a crowd of 1,000 Gotti supporters
in a riot at the federal courthouse
in Brooklyn.
The crowd tore apart
police barricades and threw pieces
at the police, egged on by Gurino
using a bullhorns. Gurino
was charged with multiple felonies.
Idle thought: did
the GOPMOB find Gurino's
"skills" useful in Dade
County in
the 2000 Presidential election
during the Republican
riot that forced election officials
to stop counting the votes?
Gurino’s father,
John Gurino Sr., owned the Ragtime
Newsstand Dairy in Howard
Beach, a popular meeting
place for Gotti associates, according
to a
1998 New York Times article.
Gurino's cousin,
Anthony J. Gurino,
a childhood friend of Gotti’s, went
to prison for conspiracy to hide
the assets of a multi-million-dollar
heroin ring headed by Gotti's brother,
and a fugitive named Salvatore
Ruggiero, who died in a
Lear jet crash in Georgia in 1982.
David Bogenshutz: the busiest lawyer
in Florida
That’s the same
major heroin trafficking trial where
“Big Tony” Moscatiello, immortalized
forever when John Gotti called him
a
"fucking dunsky"
while the FBI was listening, was
a defendant. Afterwards Big Tony
supposedly became a government informant.
Ruggiero’s brother,
Angelo Ruggiero, died of cancer
while awaiting trial as a defendant
in the drug case. From books about
the Mob, we knew that John Gotti
had waited, out of respect, until
his mentor Ruggiero died before
killing the Gambino Mob Boss
"Big Paul" Castellano.
Small world.
Kidan
told investigators he learned the
details of the killing from “Big
Tony” Moscatiello
but was not told the triggerman's
name. Moscatiello told him the killer
was dead. Kidan said he pieced together
who it was after learning that Gurino
was killed in a Florida deli by
his business partner in 2003.
The man convicted
of killing Gurino is Ralph Liotta,
49, who was sentenced to 15 years
in prison. Liotta's defense attorney
was David Bogenschutz.
David Bogenschutz
is now defending “Big Tony”
Moscatiello. Small world...
It gets even smaller.
"The wages of sin make for
a pretty fat roll"
The Associated Press
identified the man who supplied
the information about
Kidan’s statement to police as an
investigator with the Broward State’s
Attorney’s Office, which prosecutes
the cases of the Broward County
Sheriff, Ken Jenne.
The Miami Herald
earlier this month revealed that
Jenne had taken an unexplained loan
from a certain Philip Procacci.
Amid
calls for his resignation, Jenne
is currently being investigated
by the FBI.
Jenne’s lawyer? You
guessed it… the ubiquitous
David Bogenschutz.
Moreover Sheriff
Jenne has been in trouble over gambling-related
murders in South Florida before,
just last year, in fact.
But wait a minute…
Gus Boulis’ murder was gambling-related.
An
April 8, 2005 Miami Herald story
headlined JENNE'S ROLE IN TRIBAL
CASE PROBED reported, “State
prosecutors are investigating possible
public corruption that grew out
of a criminal
case involving the
shooting of a Seminole tribal
lawyer,
focusing on
whether the Broward
Sheriff's Office interfered with
the Hollywood police probe.”
“Prosecutors issued
subpoenas Thursday to two Hollywood
detectives assigned to investigate
the January 2002 shooting of Jim
Shore at his Hollywood home. The
detectives were questioned about
Broward Sheriff Ken Jenne and his
agency's involvement in the case.”
Those Seminal Seminoles & Casino
Jack Abramoff
Jim
Shore
was a top executive of the Seminole
Tribe of Florida, the state’s preeminent
casino operators.
Alert readers of
the MadCowMorningNews
will recall the name Jim Shore from
several
earlier
stories.
The Seminole Tribe
of Florida
led the way in parlaying mom-and-pop
bingo parlors into today’s $19 billion
a year Indian casino industry. Along
with legendary Chief James Billie
(Wrestles with Alligators) Rob Tiller
was a seminal figure
in this growth.
A week before Gus
Boulis was murdered, Tiller was
called to take a meeting with him.
Tiller says Boulis was scared. Boulis
hadn’t wanted to sell.
Instead, Boulis was
worried he’d be whacked.
“He called me to
a meeting at the Ocean Reef Club.
Very snooty. You cant even land
there without permission. I flew
my airplane down to meet him,” Tiller
recalled.
“He said, ‘I want
out. People think I make a lot more
money than I really do. I don’t
need the headache anymore. I want
to sell my casino boats to the Seminoles.’”
”A couple days later,
I hear he’s been blown apart dead.
See, Gus wanted to muscle his way
into the casino business in a real
bad way. His Miami subs were everywhere.
He was using them to launder money,
big-time, for somebody.”
Working for the Bush Family has
never been a picnic
He
pointedly referred us to the manner
of the Boulis hit, stating, “Boulis
was murdered in the exact same way
as Don Aronow, Bush’s
other partner.”
Bush’s other
partner? We didn't even have to
ask it. The question hung in the
air. Who might that be? Even asking
the question brings a shiver.
“Something is really
going down bad here,”
Tiller stated.
“Don Aronow. Gus.
Jim Shore… All tied in to
Bush.”
The dead guy Kidan
picked to lay the hit off on
has—or rather
had—an interesting past.
“At least one defense
attorney said he is now looking
into the background of Gurino, a
Gotti associate, killed in October
2003,” reported the Miami Herald.
That wouldn’t be
Bogenschutz. Presumably, he already
knows…
Kill shots to the gluteus maximus
So... Who was John
Gurino, the man shot and killed
in a deli in Boca Raton?
John Gurino, a longtime
John Gotti associate and Gambino
Mob figure from
Howard’s Beach in Queens, was murdered
in 2003 by Ralph Liotta, who owed
him
60 large. So Liotta
capped Gurino seven times,
including three in the
butt.
It was every loan
shark’s worst nightmare.
Apparently Gurino
was no real sweetheart either...
Liotta testified Gurino had threatened
to cut Liotta's throat and have
men rape him in front of his
family.
That’s pretty icky.
Gurino and Liotta
had been having a ‘sit-down’ over
the debt, after having been brought
together by three other men, each
of whom soon felt the need, after
shots rang out, to step quickly
over Gurino’s body in their haste
to leave the premises, even
though one of them was on crutches.
Witnesses said they
heard two to four loud pops and
then saw Gurino fall through the
front glass door. Seconds later,
they said, three older men walked
out casually, stepping over Gurino's
body as they made their way to the
parking lot.
The "boys" are big in
Boca
Gurino had a knife
in his pocket. But he’d left his
gun in his car, presumably as an
earnest of his good intentions.
His brother, Anthony
Gurino, said he was with investigators
when they found the gun in the car.
"If my brother was going into
the store to hurt him, wouldn't
he have had a gun with him?"
"It was
an ambush," said Vincent
Sorena, a longtime Gurino family
friend who lives in Boca Raton.
Vincent
Sorena, Gurino’s Boca buddy, was
an officer of a New York-based contractor
secretly controlled by the Mob.
He agreed to pay $ 250,000 in penalties
to settle fraud charges with the
SEC.
His company did business
totaling $18.1 million with New
York City’s Housing Authority. When
this was revealed, the
Authority’s chairwoman, Laura D.
Blackburne, resigned, after disclosures
that she authorized hundreds of
thousands of dollars to be spent
on office furnishings, including
a $3,000 pink leather couch.
The new chairwoman
canceled the contracts. An $884,777
contract with the Sanitation Department
was also canceled.
Blackburne was then
elected a Supreme Court justice
in Queens and served on both the
civil and criminal benches, before
being assigned this year to the
treatment court in Queens, which
handles drug cases.
And so it goes…
You're a very nosy fellow, kitty
cat
We checked out one
of the men who’d so easily stepped
over their fallen comrade.
“It was determined
with the FBI's help that the 1987
Camry was registered to the girlfriend
of the man with the crutches, who
is identified in the search warrant
as a Patrick Pata.
The two tried to conceal the car
by putting North Carolina license
plates on it, the warrant said.
Pata refused to cooperate with investigators,”
The Miami Herald reported.
Patrick Pata lives
in Lawrenceville, Ga. He is listed
as the vice-president of a company
called Jinny Corporation, which
bills itself as the nation's largest
ethnic beauty supply company.
Both he and his wife
gave $2000 each to the 2004 George
W Bush Presidential
campaign. Strangely,
he also gave a $1000 campaign contribution
in 2003 to
Green Bay mayoral
candidate Jim Schmitt, in
Wally Hilliard’s hometown.
You know what happens to nosy fellows?
Wanna guess?
Kidan, who has known
Moscatiello for more than a decade,
brought him down to
Florida from Howard
Beach, N.Y., in late 2000 because
he wanted Moscatiello to determine
if Boulis was "connected"
to the Mafia.
Within a few weeks,
Boulis was dead, apparently before
Kidan’s diligent efforts had determined
his status with organized crime.

Even though Kidan
ended up paying $240,000 to companies
connected with Big Tony Moscatiello
and Little Tony Ferrari, Kidan said
Moscatiello had ordered Boulis'
murder.
Big Tony
ordered the hit? Why?
He didn’t even know
Gus Boulis. He
wasn’t in business with Gus Boulis.
Kidan and Abramoff were. What's
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