Calls linked to Boulis slaying (SunCruz/Abramoff/Kidan case)

[seafan]

Calls linked to Boulis slaying

BY WANDA J. DeMARZO
Posted on Sat, Jan. 21, 2006

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Calls between two suspects charged in the 2001 slaying of gambling ship mogul Konstantinos ''Gus'' Boulis showed that the pair were within 500 feet of where the shooting took place, according to court testimony Friday.

Boulis was ambushed and shot multiple times around 9:15 p.m. Feb. 6 on Miami Road in Fort Lauderdale as he drove away from his nearby office.

In court Friday, Anthony ''Big Tony'' Moscatiello and James ''Pudgy'' Fiorillo listened intently as former Fort Lauderdale homicide detective Art Carbo testified about a flurry of cellphone calls that police said occurred before and after Boulis' murder.

One of those phone calls -- just minutes after Boulis was shot -- was from a cellphone that belonged to Anthony ''Little Tony'' Ferrari to Moscatiello, Carbo said.

Ferrari gave Moscatiello detailed information about the murder, details that shouldn't have been known, Carbo said.

''Mr. Moscatiello said he received a phone call from Ferrari who told him that Boulis was shot down the street from his business.'' Carbo said. ``None of that information had been made public yet.''

Moscatiello, who police say is linked to New York's Gambino crime family, was an associate of New York entrepreneur Adam Kidan.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/13676353.htm

[seafan]

1. 'Nicholson testified that Fiorillo admitted to shooting Boulis.'

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Dwayne Nicholson, the state's key witness against the three suspects, also testified, but Kaplan would not allow the media to take photos or video of him after prosecutors said he feared for his life.

Nicholson, who said he provided security for Ferrari, testified that in November 2000 -- several months before Boulis' murder -- Ferrari talked about a problem he was having with one of the old owners of SunCruz.

Ferrari asked Nicholson if he would ''take him out.'' Boulis' name was not used.

''I told him, straight up, I can't kill someone,'' Nicholson said. ' `Nah, I can't kill someone but if you want me to break his leg or arm, I'll do that,' '' Nicholson said he told Ferrari.

The next day, Nicholson said he and Ferrari met Moscatiello, who arrived at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport from New York on a Learjet. Kidan, his brother-in-law and two other passenger accompanied Moscatiello, Nicholson said.

He said he joined Moscatiello and Ferrari in one car, with others following. The three discussed ''taking care of Gus,'' Nicholson said. Again, Nicholson said Ferrari asked him to do it.

He said he didn't respond. He was ordered to do surveillance, and played along, he said.

Three months later, in early February 2001, Boulis was killed.

[seafan]

2. More from the Sarasota Herald-Tribune:

Detective: phone records place 2 at Boulis killing crime scene

By CURT ANDERSON


FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Cell phones belonging to two men charged in the 2001 murder of businessman Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis were within 500 feet when the gangland-style slaying happened and one was used to call a third defendant moments after the killing, one of the case's chief investigators testified Friday.

Art Carbo, a former Fort Lauderdale detective who handled the case until he became an investigator for the state attorney's office in May 2005, testified at a hearing that company records place the cell phones belonging to Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari and James "Pudgy" Fiorillo at the scene of the crime.

"They were within 500 feet or less," Carbo said.

The phone belonging to Ferrari was used moments after Boulis was fatally shot on a Fort Lauderdale street to call Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello, the third defendant in the case. Moscatiello, described by police as linked to New York's Gambino crime family, was an associate of Adam Kidan, who along with partner Jack Abramoff had purchased the SunCruz Casinos gambling fleet from Boulis in September 2000.

Boulis, founder of both SunCruz and the Miami Subs restaurant chain, was gunned down in his car on Feb. 6, 2001, in the midst of a bitter feud with Kidan over control of SunCruz. Moscatiello, Ferrari and Fiorillo could face the death penalty if convicted of the murder.

http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060120/APN/601201075

[leftstreet]

3. Badfellas

Thanks for the links

[Jackpine Radical]

4. If the press manages to ignore this stuff,

then their partisan nature will be totally exposed to those willing to look. It will no longer be possible for the apologists to say the media don't cover meaningful political discourse because they only cover sensational stories.

[salin]

5. for a laugh (on spin) check out the tpm link

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/007490.php

Unbelievable. Especially if you think back to Dan Burton's appopleptic watermelon stunt and other odd public claims about the Clintons being connected to murder wherever the wacko right looked (they downed Ron Brown's Plane! for example)... but this - just a shrug.

[0007]

11. "Maybe that one guy in Florida" My tea flew out of my nostrils

and my jaw dropped to the floor on that statement by Ed Rogers. Which brought Cliff Baxter and David Kelly to my mind immediately.

(January 19, 2006 -- 09:57 PM EDT)

Great Moments in Abramoff-Ain't-Such-A-Big-Deal Spin.

Honorable Mention for Ed Rogers, GOP lobbyist, from last night's Hardball (emphasis added): ". Look, this is going to come out. Nobody is going to keep it a secret. Jack Abramoff is so radioactive—I've got Jack Abramoff fatigue already. I mean, good grief, he didn't kill anybody. Maybe that one guy in Florida."

Gotta love that.


-- Josh Marshall

[seafan]

12. These guys are soiling themselves. And they ain't seen nothin' yet. n/t

[seafan]

6. Pix

http://img.viacomlocalnetworks.com/images_sizedimage_020103546/lg

(Big Tony, Little Tony and Pudgy)


http://imgsrv.gainesvillesun.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=GS&Date=20060121&Category=LOCAL&ArtNo=201210321&Ref=AR&Profile=1078&MaxW=600&title=1


AP Photo/Lou Toman, Pool
Defendants Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello, left, and James Fiorillo are shown in judge Michael Kaplan's courtroom for a bond reduction hearing, Friday, Jan. 20, 2006, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Moscatiello and Fiorillo, are two of the three men accused in the 2001 gangland-style murder of Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis.

(Big Tony and Pudgy)


These guys have lost a good amount of weight.

[stillcool]

7. They look like something...

out of an Al Capone movie...prison stripes and all.

[cantstandbush]

8. Surely the Bushbots have tapes of these conversations...aren't they

listening in to all terrorists? You know damn well there are links to Abramoff to lots of criminals and you also know that part of the Bush spying was on all political operatives just to keep records for future use...like blackmail.

[lovuian]

9. Bush buddies with Mafia...

Its bad!!!

[DoYouEverWonder]

10. I was wondering how they connected these guys with the murder

and with Abramoff and Kidan.

These guys aren't very bright it seems. Don't they know enough to shut down their cell phones during a murder. They're like little GPS units and are great way to track people. I hope they left a trail all the way to Abramoff and beyond.

[seafan]

13. Many more details on this case in MadCow Morning News:

http://www.madcowprod.com/