Abramoff and Kidan Implicated in Gangland Style Slaying

[Spoonerian]

www.madcowprod.com

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Adam Kidan, for example, was a disbarred lawyer and proud owner of a bankrupt Washington, D.C. mattress company... Do these seem the credentials of a man who's just received a $60 million dollar loan? No one in authority seems ready to ask. This gaping anomaly has been skated over as if it were thin ice covering murky depths no one is interested in plumbing. When a reporter inquired of a Foothill Capital executive about their seemingly lax loan criteria, he replied, "You would have had to be there."

But wait. There's more...

According to testimony during the bail hearing, within just 24 hours of the murder a man involved in the plot to kill the casino czar had come forward and contacted police with details of the crime. Yet for more than four years no one was charged with murdering Gus Boulis. Maybe they were just waiting for the right moment, do y'think?

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Yet Adam Kidan has never been named as a suspect. The reason? Prosecutors would have a hard time convincing a jury that the buck stopped with him. This is the man, after all, who wrote checks for the hit. So it apparently pays to be an Abramoff flunky. Because Jack can be expected to keep his mouth shut and do his five years like a man.

But nobody in a position to affect the outcome of the case apparently wants to leave Casino Jack Abramoff totally without recourse, facing life behind without parole... dangling slowly, slowly, in the wind. Because under those circumstances, nobody knows who he might drop a dime on. And that's when the Abramoff Scandal might, truly, go rogue.

[kurth]

1. Is Jack--off a gangster??

Nah. No way.

[Independent_Liberal]

2. I have a feeling this is going to get really ugly.

[TomInTib]

3. Hey, let's all K&R this thing. It is a great read and will be long gone

tomorrow.

That's the problem with these late finds.

[Hestia]

4. Late Finds?

Mad Cow Productions has been reporting on Abramhoff since last summer, before Delay was indicted. Look at the archives.

[TomInTib]

5. I haven't seen Mad Cow before. Maybe it's just me.

But welcome to DU, Hestia.

[Spoonerian]

7. oops

You were just ahead of me with your explanation and I got it wrong.

[Spoonerian]

6. I think he means "late"

as in late at night on du east coast-wise(?).

Of course he could mean "late" as in pulling something out of the "Cold Case File labeled Too Hot to Touch" 4 years after the fact.

[TomInTib]

8. That's it, Spoonerian....

On DU, you have to keep in mind time of day and day of and day of week.

Keep 'em coming.

Welcome to this site.

[TomInTib]

9. See response to Spoonerian below. nt

[yellowcanine]

10. "You would have had to be there." Curiouser and Curiouser.

Strange loan criteria for a bank. Does this bank have a Board of Directors and is anyone we know on that board?