3 enter not-guilty pleas in 2001 murder of Gus Boulis...

[Peter Frank]

Posted on Wed, Nov. 09, 2005

Associated Press


Three men charged in the 2001 gangland-style killing of Miami Subs and SunCruz Casinos founder Gus Boulis have pleaded not guilty.

Anthony ''Big Tony'' Moscatiello, 67; Anthony ''Little Tony'' Ferrari, 48; and James ''Pudgy'' Fiorillo, 28, entered the pleas Monday in Broward Circuit Court in Fort Lauderdale.

The men were arrested in September in connection with the Feb. 6, 2001, killing of Boulis in his car after he left his Fort Lauderdale office.

A grand jury indicted them on charges of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit first-degree murder. Moscatiello and Ferrari are also charged with solicitation to commit first-degree murder, with prosecutors accusing them of trying to solicit a fourth man to join the plot.

All three are being held in the Broward County jail.

Boulis, 51, was shot to death at the wheel of his car by a gunman who had pulled alongside. The shooting happened amid a bitter dispute over SunCruz, which Boulis had sold in September 2000 for $147.5 million to Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff and New York businessman Adam Kidan.

[Botany]

1. Oh my

:popcorn:

Although I did hear today that a congressional staffer who was investigating
Abramoff was beaten w/ a ball bat as she got out of her car @ her house
not long ago.

Man are the repugs in deep shit!

[AlCzervik]

2. Abramoff is gonna end up like Luca Brazzi.

[Botany]

3. No way that he gets to court.

DeLay, Nye, Denny Hastert, Rove, Ralph Reed, and so many more .....

and he does know where the bodies are buried

[AlCzervik]

4. yeah, i don't even know if he could get into the witness protection

program at this point, he better hope so.

[0007]

7. 'Ya forgot Senator John Cornyn. n/t

[texpatriot2004]

9. I would love it if he went down in this? nt

[texpatriot2004]

8. Who is Luca Brazzi? n.t

[AlCzervik]

10. From the Godfather, He sleeps with the fishes.

[Peter Frank]

15. I sure hope not...

...I want him to sing like a bird.

[Peter Frank]

11. Is This the Story You're Speaking of???...

The FBI and Capitol Police are investigating the vicious attack of a top Senate staffer at her home last week amid concerns that the assault might be related to her work on the Finance Committee.

Emilia DiSanto, chief investigator for committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), arrived at her suburban Virginia home after work Wednesday about 6:30 p.m. As she was unloading belongings from her car, a 6-foot-1-inch white man dressed in black struck her repeatedly with an unidentified object believed to be a baseball bat.

After she screamed to her family inside the house, the assailant fled. DiSanto was transported to Inova Fair Oaks Hospital, where she was treated for significant upper-body injuries. Nine staples were needed to close her head wound.

DiSanto, who declined to comment, has reported back to work.

The attack and the possibility that it was motivated by congressional business have made some people anxious on Capitol Hill.

“This is of obvious concern to anyone working here,” a Senate staffer said. “It’s very disconcerting when you worry about someone resorting to violence. This could be intimidation, and you wonder whether it’s safe to do your job.”

The attack on DiSanto came two days before a bomb threat caused alarm at an Iowa veterans home where Grassley was scheduled to appear.<snip>


No evidence has surfaced that definitively points to DiSanto’s work on the Finance Committee as the trigger for the attack, but sources say there are a number of clues that suggest it could be.

The assailant was trying to hide his identity, wearing a hood and black gloves. He also did not make any demands before attacking the 49-year-old staffer. A working assumption among investigators is that he was waiting for her to arrive home.<snip>

Grassley is known for his aggressive oversight of the public and private sector. Over the past year, he has scrutinized healthcare fraud, organ-donation procedures used by hospitals, drug-safety matters and the use of nonprofit groups related to former lobbyist Jack Abramoff.<snip>

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/110805/news1.html

[NYC]

12. Do you have any links

or leads regarding this? I hadn't heard about it. Thanks.

[Peter Frank]

13. Right Here...

http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/110805/news1.html

[NYC]

17. Thank you very much.

I'll be interested in the investigation results.

[Peter Frank]

14. Thanks Botany...

You are responsible for me investigating your source -- see reply# 11...

[Carolab]

5. Huh.

Maybe "Medium Tony" did it.

[tsuki]

6. Ah, the mystery man. Good catch.

[loudsue]

16. THIS is what a Mafia-run government looks like. REPUBLICANS

ARE MAFIA, in the highest levels of government. And, as they promised, they're running our government like "a business" .... a mafia business.

:kick::kick::kick:

[Peter Frank]

18. Bush's code word for his base of (and I quote)...

"...the haves and the have mores" is the "entrepreneurs."

This effete gang of amoral power-brokers is who's pulling the strings in D.C.; and there's nothing they're incapable of doing to preserve increase their power.