Delay announced his resignation. Why now?
4/1/06, Miami Herald: Wiseguy defendant doubled as FBI snitch
At the same time New York mob associate Anthony Moscatiello was allegedly plotting the slaying of a Fort Lauderdale business tycoon, he was also spying on fellow gangsters and snitching to the FBI, The Miami Herald has learned.
Moscatiello -- a former advisor to the late Gambino family crime boss John Gotti -- is the star defendant in the mob-style hit on Konstantinos ''Gus'' Boulis, founder of SunCruz Casinos, a fleet of gambling ships.
What's more, Moscatiello is pals with Adam Kidan.
Moscatiello advised him on his Long Island bagel chain long before Kidan teamed up with powerful Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff to buy SunCruz in 2000.
Soon after the deal, Boulis was shot dead in his BMW on a Fort Lauderdale street as he was leaving his office in February 2001. Ferrari, Fiorillo and Moscatiello were arrested Sept. 26, 2005 -- more than four years after Boulis' death.
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9/28/2005, Washington Post: 3 Charged in Killing Of Fla. Businessman
Boulis, millionaire founder of the Miami Subs sandwich chain, sold SunCruz to Abramoff and Kidan in September 2000, at a time when Abramoff was one of Washington's most powerful lobbyists. Abramoff and Kidan were indicted last month on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy in connection with a $60 million loan they obtained to purchase the casino company.
Abramoff is at the center of a federal investigation into lobbying for Indian tribes and influence-peddling in Washington. Abramoff used contacts with GOP Reps. Tom DeLay (Tex.) and Robert W. Ney (Ohio) and their staffs as he worked to land the SunCruz deal, interviews and court records show.
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DeLay easily won the Republican primary on March 7, 2006, taking 62 percent of the vote in the four-way race. Nevertheless, on April 3, 2006, DeLay announced that he would not run for re-election. His announcement may come in relation to Abramoff testifying in the Boulis case, or it may relate to the indictment on charges of conspiring to violate Texas political fundraising law, and charges of conspiring to launder money and money laundering. It should be noted that two former Delay aides, Michael Scanlon and Tony Rudy, have plead guilty to conspiring to bribe public officials, and conspiracy respectively. Rudy promised to cooperate with a federal investigation of bribery and lobbying fraud.
Timeline of Delay's time in the Congress
At the same time New York mob associate Anthony Moscatiello was allegedly plotting the slaying of a Fort Lauderdale business tycoon, he was also spying on fellow gangsters and snitching to the FBI, The Miami Herald has learned.
Moscatiello -- a former advisor to the late Gambino family crime boss John Gotti -- is the star defendant in the mob-style hit on Konstantinos ''Gus'' Boulis, founder of SunCruz Casinos, a fleet of gambling ships.
What's more, Moscatiello is pals with Adam Kidan.
Moscatiello advised him on his Long Island bagel chain long before Kidan teamed up with powerful Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff to buy SunCruz in 2000.
Soon after the deal, Boulis was shot dead in his BMW on a Fort Lauderdale street as he was leaving his office in February 2001. Ferrari, Fiorillo and Moscatiello were arrested Sept. 26, 2005 -- more than four years after Boulis' death.
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9/28/2005, Washington Post: 3 Charged in Killing Of Fla. Businessman
Boulis, millionaire founder of the Miami Subs sandwich chain, sold SunCruz to Abramoff and Kidan in September 2000, at a time when Abramoff was one of Washington's most powerful lobbyists. Abramoff and Kidan were indicted last month on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy in connection with a $60 million loan they obtained to purchase the casino company.
Abramoff is at the center of a federal investigation into lobbying for Indian tribes and influence-peddling in Washington. Abramoff used contacts with GOP Reps. Tom DeLay (Tex.) and Robert W. Ney (Ohio) and their staffs as he worked to land the SunCruz deal, interviews and court records show.
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DeLay easily won the Republican primary on March 7, 2006, taking 62 percent of the vote in the four-way race. Nevertheless, on April 3, 2006, DeLay announced that he would not run for re-election. His announcement may come in relation to Abramoff testifying in the Boulis case, or it may relate to the indictment on charges of conspiring to violate Texas political fundraising law, and charges of conspiring to launder money and money laundering. It should be noted that two former Delay aides, Michael Scanlon and Tony Rudy, have plead guilty to conspiring to bribe public officials, and conspiracy respectively. Rudy promised to cooperate with a federal investigation of bribery and lobbying fraud.
Timeline of Delay's time in the Congress
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