RC's link is must read...


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According to McPheerson, the IFF earned up to half its funding doing "jobs" for South African intelligence. He said the intelligence agency sent their fee payments directly to IFF's Washington office. And while Abramoff's IFF focused on tarnishing the image of Nelson Mandella and the ANC, it also supported the Nicaraguan Contras, defended Ronald Reagan aide Oliver North, and sought a British government investigation of the charity Oxfam for the political support it gave the ANC.



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Abramoff and former Reagan HUD official Ben Waldman had invested in SunCruz, a troubled gambling cruise line based in Florida. Abramoff's other partner in the SunCruz deal, Adam Kidan, was known by authorities to have had business ties to members of the Gambino and Gotti crime families. In 1993 Kidan's mother was murdered in Philadelphia by a mob assassin tied to the Bonanno crime family. His bad luck continued when Kidan's New York business franchise "Dial-A-Mattress" failed. Then in November 2000, he was disbarred as a lawyer by New York State for allegedly misappropriating $100,000 of his step-father's assets.

Abramoff and his partners signed the deal to purchase SunCruz from its owner, Gus Boulis. Boulis then accused the partners of failing to pay him for his business. He reported that the $5 million check they had given him as a down-payment bounced and that payment of a $20 million promissory note was overdue. Abramoff and Kidan had personally guaranteed the debt as part of the deal.

Kidan responded by reporting to Miami police that Boulis had tried to stab him with a penknife. But Kidan was okay. It would be Boulis who would end up dead. On the night of February 6, 2001, Boulis was gunned down in a blaze of gunfire while driving away from his office. Two cars boxed his car in a narrow ally and he was shot four times. Florida authorities describe it as "a classic mob hit." No one has been charged in the crime, though Florida newspapers have described Kidan as one of the prime suspects.



What a disgusting pig. How much you want to bet he is on top
of Bush's pardon list?
Unbelievable...