Reply #7: I know it's hard to keep up with these crooks [View All]

especially with some many Rove distractions every day.



Abramoff Buddy: Killer Of Businessman Is Dead
He says Gotti crony who killed SunCruz Casinos founder was slain in 2003.

The Associated Press

FORT LAUDERDALE -- An associate of John Gotti killed three years ago was the person who fatally shot SunCruz Casinos founder Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis in 2001, according to a partner in the purchase of the gambling boat company.

Adam Kidan, who bought SunCruz from Boulis with lobbyist Jack Abramoff in 2000, told authorities in a taped interview May 1 that John Gurino was the person who shot Boulis, said Art Carbo, an investigator with the Broward County State Attorney's Office and a former Fort Lauderdale detective on the case.

"He came up with all of this information," Carbo told The Associated Press on Friday. "That name had never come up before that."

Earlier this year, Kidan and Abramoff pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from the SunCruz purchase.

http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060610/NEWS/606100356/1039