- DeLay implicated in Florida gangland
hit of casino boats owner. Former GOP Majority Leader Tom DeLay's surprise
announcement that he will resign from Congress in a few weeks and not stand
for re-election after winning the GOP primary in his Houston area district
came after a bombshell was dropped in the Broward County, Florida trial
of former John Gotti hit man Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello for
the February 2001 gangland slaying of Sun Cruz casino boat owner Konstantinos
"Gus" Boulis. Moscatiello is on trial with Anthony "Little
Tony" Ferrari and James "Pudgy" Fiorillo in the murder of
Boulis.
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- On April 1, the Miami Herald reported
that Moscatiello was a long time informant for the FBI at the time of the
murder of Boulis. Moscatiello quit his association with the the FBI shortly
after the murder of Boulis. Recently convicted GOP lobbyist Jack
Abramoff and his colleague Adam Kidan forced Boulis to sell Sun Cruz Casino
Cruises to them in a scheme engineered by Gov. Jeb Bus to establish a GOP
money launcering contrivance. The state pressured Boulis, a Greek national,
to sell Sun Cruz to Abramoff because of an obscure state requirement that
shipping companies be owned by U.S. citizens. Jeb Bush, using Florida's
regulatory mechanisms behind the scenes, ensured Boulis was pressured to
divest his interests in Sun Cruz to Abramoff.
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- WMR sources report that Broward County
prosecutors are livid about the failure of the FBI to inform them that
Moscatiello was an FBI informant at the time of the Boulis murder. They
are convinced that the George W. and Jeb Bush administrations in Washington
and Tallahassee, respectively, deliberately blocked the prosecution from
linking Moscatiello to the criminal cases against Abramoff and Kidan. Kidan
placed Moscatiello and Ferrari on the Sun Cruz payroll after Abramoff assumed
control of the company. Abramoff and Kidan were sentenced to over 5 years
in prison last week for lying to financers in their purchase of Sun Cruz
from Boulis. The light sentences were the result of plea agreements in
which they prmised to cooperate with federal prosecutors.
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- However, the Sun Cruz case goes far beyond
Abramoff and involves DeLay, according to informed sources. The Broward
County prosecutors believe that the FBI's written summaries (FD-302s) of
their interviews with Moscatiello were withheld from the prosecution by
the FBI in order to protect senior GOP officials. Had the prosecution known
Moscatiello was an FBI informer, he could have been offered a plea bargain
in return for his cooperation against Republican politicians in Florida
and Washington, DC.
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