Suncruz gangland style murder and Abramoff....

[liberaliraqvet26]

Because I lived in Ft Lauderdale at the time I vaguely remember the murder of the owner of the Suncruz Casino boats. It turns out that Abramoff wanted to (or maybe did) buy the business and Rep Ney (R-OH) put something about the Suncruz deal in the congressional record.

If anyone has a lot of time they should research this connection and the murder.

[htuttle]

1. It was Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/30/AR2005043001147.html

It was a gangland-style hit straight out of "Goodfellas."

A man in a BMW was driving down a quiet side street after an evening meeting at his Fort Lauderdale office when a car slowed to a stop in front of him. A second car boxed the BMW in from behind, then a dark Mustang appeared from the opposite direction. The Mustang's driver pulled alongside and pumped three hollow-point bullets into the BMW driver's chest.

The dead man was Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis, a volatile 51-year-old self-made millionaire, a Greek immigrant who had started as a dishwasher in Canada and ended up in Florida, where he built an empire of restaurants, hotels and cruise ships used for offshore casino gambling. Boulis's slaying, still unsolved four years later, reverberated all the way to Washington. Months earlier he had sold his fleet of casino ships to a partnership that included Republican superlobbyist Jack Abramoff.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/04/30/AR2005043001147.html
(more at link)

[liberaliraqvet26]

2. is it possible Abramoff had anything to do with it?

[htuttle]

4. Yes -- likely, in fact

...via Abramoff partner Adam Kidan.

There are some earlier items about the hit in this article:
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-927boulismurder,0,6594337.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

[danalytical]

5. It sure is

Although it doesn't look like it's going anywhere. The only two people benefitting from that man's death was Kidan and Abramhoff. Follow the lawsuit and the money and you get to those two.

[chat_noir]

3. Money, Mobsters, Murder

The sordid tale of a GOP lobbyist's casino deal gone bad.

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/006/376cyikk.asp


Excerpted paragraphs posted on another thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=41657&mesg_id=41657

[Al-CIAda]

6. Interview with Daniel Hopsicker About the Gus Boulis Murder | Listen

Interview with Daniel Hopsicker About the Gus Boulis Murder | Listen

http://wfmu.org/listen.ram?show=16737

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[jazzjunkysue]

8. It's like the Sopranos, only not funny. Jacko: "Gimme 5"

"Abramoff and his politically connected partner, public relations expert Michael Scanlon, jokingly referred to their scheme as the "Gimme Five Program," Fisher said."

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/03/abramoff.plea/index.html

[liberaliraqvet26]

7. Lets blow this story up on the blogs.....

They aren't mentioning this on the news tonight. This will be an interesting angle...

[RagingInMiami]

9. Check out this thread that I bookmarked a few months ago on this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1809114