What do you know about Abramoff's Partner, Adam Kidan?

[ck4829]

What you don't know may surprise you... or not.

"I'm a Republican ... In 1984, I was chairman of Youth for Reagan/Bush. In 1988, I was chairman of the Young Professionals for Bush for the entire country. You're dealing with some pretty reputable people. The last thing we want to do is run things the wrong way."
- Adam Kidan, January 08, 2001, the St. Petersburg Times.

http://www.stpetersburgtimes.com/News/010601/Pasco/New_casino_boat_may_f.shtml

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1. May have something to do with Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis murder

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/27/AR2005092700980.html

[ck4829]

2. Wouldn't doubt it for a second

Has a command position in the GOP AND has connections with the Mafia, how convenient!

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4. Second or third generation Mobster -- his mother was killed in a mob

hit or robbery in the early 1990s. Kidan owned a mattress and a bagel company in NJ, and is a friend of Abramoff's going back to college.

http://64.233.179.104/search?q=cache:YB_g019L6UgJ:www.alternet.org/story/29827/+Adam+Kidan+Jewish&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=16
Adam Kidan: Met Jack Abramoff in his College Republican days. Attended an exclusive party in House Majority Whip Rep. Tom DeLay's office on Inauguration Day 2001 in Washington. The former owner of a Dial-a-Mattress franchise in D.C., Kidan was Abramoff's partner in a $147.5 million purchase in 2000 of a casino gambling boat company in Florida, SunCruz Casinos. Prosecutors say the purchase involved a fake wire transfer of $23 million and the falsification of loan documents. Both Kidan and Abramoff have been indicted on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy. Kidan pled guilty to the charges on December 15.

The previous owner of SunCruz, Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis, was killed in a gangland-style murder in Fort Lauderdale in February 2001. Three men -- Anthony Moscatiello, Anthony Ferrari, and James Fiorillo -- were charged in November 2005 in the Boulis killing. Kidan had hired Moscatiello and Ferrari to provide catering and surveillance services to SunCruz. Moscatiello, identified by authorities as a former bookkeeper for the Gambino crime family, asserted after his arrest that Ferrari had admitted to him that he and another man killed Boulis after getting a call from Kidan.

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5. here's more, from 1998

http://www.gwu.edu/~media/pressreleases/kidan.html

The Hoffman Lecture Series is funded by a grant to the School of Business and Public Management from Howard Hoffman, GW alumnus and former board of trustees member. Hoffman's grant was awarded to provide for lectures by entrepreneurs to SBPM students. Past lecturers include: Robert Johnson, CEO and founder of Black Entertainment Television; Louis Kane, founder of Au Bon Pain and Scott Degarmo, publisher and editor of Success magazine, among others.

Prior to his ownership of Dial-A-Mattress, Adam Kidan was managing partner of a New York City law firm where he specialized in corporate matters. Also while in New York, he owned a chain of bagel stores. Prior to practicing law, he was appointed president of the Four Freedoms Foundation, where he organized economic development programs for Eastern Europe and developed fundraising programs.

Kidan currently serves on the board of directors of the Laurel Regional Hospital Foundation and Greater D.C. Cares and on the Women's Issues Leadership Committee of the Washington Hospital Center. He is also a member of the board of the Washington Hebrew Congregation, Greater Washington Urban League and chairman of the District of Columbia Chamber of Commerce Political Action Committee.

Located four blocks from the White House, The George Washington University was created by an Act of Congress in 1821. Today, GW is the largest institution of higher education in the nation's capital. The University offers comprehensive programs of undergraduate and graduate liberal arts study as well as degree programs in medicine, law, engineering, education, business/public management and international affairs. Each year GW enrolls a diverse population of 19,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students from all 50 states, the District of Columbia and some 100 countries.

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6. At one point Boulis and Kidan got into a fistfight.

The new owners had agreed to pay $147.5 million for the company, but they never made the initial $23 million cash payment, and within weeks Boulis was embroiled in a bitter feud with new CEO Adam Kidan, a New York attorney who founded the Dial-A-Mattress company in Washington, D.C., and had served as general counsel to the St. Maarten Hotel Beach Club & Casino in the Caribbean. At one point Boulis and Kidan got into a fistfight. On another occasion SunCruz employees boarded two of the ships, held a security guard for four hours, and removed slot machines and other equipment that Boulis claimed were his.

It all came to a head on February 6, 2001, when Boulis was shot dead in his car while driving home from his Fort Lauderdale office. One car stopped in front of him, cutting him off, and another car pulled alongside as the driver emptied a semi- automatic into Boulis' body. It looked like a classic mob hit, and Kidan didn't look too squeaky-clean when it was later revealed that his "food and beverage consultant" was Anthony Moscatiello, a Brooklyn friend of John Gotti with ties to the Gambino family, or that $95,000 had been paid to a mysterious company called Moon Over Miami Beach "to protect the vessels."
http://www.joebobbriggs.com/vegasguy/vg20021015.html

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7. St Maarten just happens to be rife with offshore banking outfits..

how convenient for everyone..