Payment Dispute and Murder
The business relationship soured soon after the fraudulent purchase. Boulis allegedly clashed with Kidan over the falsified wire transfer. Abramoff was mostly a silent partner, but both he and Kidan used SunCruz funds to pay for numerous personal expenses. Boulis also alleged that Kidan had links to organized crime. The relationship between Kidan and Boulis grew so contentious that they had a fistfight at a business meeting in December 2000, with both parties allegedly making threats. Boulis was shot to death in Miami two months later in February 2001, in what police called "a gang style hit". A lawsuit brought by Boulis' estate alleges that Adam Kidan made three payments of $10,000 to Anthony Moscatiello immediately prior to the murder.
Kidan had hired Anthony Moscatiello as a business advisor despite Moscatiello's previous indictment as former bookkeeper for the Gambino crime family (led by Mafia crime boss John Gotti), paying him $145,000 through SunCruz for services that were allegedly never rendered. Anthony Ferrari also received $95,000 from SunCruz as payment for security services, in addition to further sums in casino chips.
Moscatiello and Anthony Ferrari were charged with murder, conspiracy and solicitation to commit murder. James Fiorillo was charged with murder and conspiracy. In May 2006, Adam Kidan told authorities that Moscatiello and Ferrari confided in Kidan that another Gotti associate, John Gurino, killed Boulis. Gurino himself was killed in October 2003. Gurino wasn't part of the investigation before Kidan gave authorities Gurino's name.
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