So mobbed up, it's not even funny. Is this what the conservative movement has come to? Get this on the two mobsters arrested today in the gangland-style killing of Abramoff-Kidan business partner Gus Boulis. From the Miami Herald back in August:

Both men [Abramoff and Kidan], according to court records, siphoned off some of SunCruz's income to collect $500,000 salaries and pay for private boxes at FedEx Field, MCI Center and Orioles Park at Camden Yards to entertain Republican donors and politicians.

Kidan diverted $250,000 in SunCruz money to a reputed organized crime associate of imprisoned Gambino Family boss John Gotti and to a Miami Beach man described by police as a ''wannabe'' mobster, according to records.

Kidan, in an earlier interview with The Herald, defended the payments to reputed Gotti associate Anthony Moscatiello of Queens, N.Y., and Anthony Ferrari of Miami Beach, saying one provided catering and the other security for SunCruz's 11 gambling vessels...

Those associations -- coupled with the SunCruz fraud indictment -- have stirred up questions anew about whether Kidan knows anything about the mob execution-style murder of Boulis. It was no secret that after the September 2000 SunCruz sale soured, Kidan and Boulis threatened each other...

Fueling speculation about some connection between the fraud prosecution and murder probe is that Paul Schwartz and Lawrence LaVecchio, the two prosecutors involved in the SunCruz case, are better known for organized-crime investigations.

The Washington Post noted last year that one Anthony Ferrari, "a Miami Beach business consultant," came to Reagan's funeral with his family and "a five-car entourage of aides." Same Anthony Ferrari?

Posted by Laura at September 27, 2005 10:15 AM