September 28, 2005

Who's Who among the Gus Boulis murder suspects, from the Sun-Sentinal:

...Born in New York, [Anthony Ferrari] has spent considerable time in New Jersey and Miami, developing a reputation as a tough man with a short temper.

In 1999, Tampa Bay-area attorney Edward C. Vining accused Ferrari of assaulting and threatening to kill him after Vining filed a lawsuit against Ferrari associates, according to Miami-Dade court records. A Miami-Dade County judge banned Ferrari from even attending depositions and eventually ordered Ferrari and his partners to pay $20,000 in damages.

In depositions for that case, Ferrari said he had been arrested several times for things "in connection with a checkbook." He said he "pleaded [guilty] to save a friend of mine" and was put on probation in New Jersey. He was arrested at least three other times over the next three years on similar charges.

Ferrari and his company, Moon Over Miami, collected at least $95,000 from Kidan for SunCruz security. Ferrari does not have a license in Florida to operate a security firm.

According to Tuesday's indictment, [Anthony] Ferrari... solicited another man, Dwayne Nicholson, to kill Boulis about four months before the murder...

Local Channel 10 has an old story about Ferrari and his business partners.

Posted by Laura at September 28, 2005 12:00 PM