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DeLay implicated in Florida gangland hit of casino boats owner. 
Former GOP Majority Leader Tom DeLay's surprise announcement that he 
will resign from Congress in a few weeks and not stand for re-
election after winning the GOP primary in his Houston area district 
came after a bombshell was dropped in the Broward County, Florida 
trial of former John Gotti hit man Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello for 
the February 2001 gangland slaying of Sun Cruz casino boat owner 
Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis. Moscatiello is on trial with Anthony 
"Little Tony" Ferrari and James "Pudgy" Fiorillo in the murder of 
Boulis.
On April 1, the Miami Herald reported that Moscatiello was a long 
time informant for the FBI at the time of the murder of Boulis. 
Moscatiello quit his association with the the FBI shortly after the 
murder of Boulis. Recently convicted GOP lobbyist Jack Abramoff and 
his colleague Adam Kidan forced Boulis to sell Sun Cruz Casino 
Cruises to them in a scheme engineered by Gov. Jeb Bus to establish a 
GOP money launcering contrivance. The state pressured Boulis, a Greek 
national, to sell Sun Cruz to Abramoff because of an obscure state 
requirement that shipping companies be owned by U.S. citizens. Jeb 
Bush, using Florida's regulatory mechanisms behind the scenes, 
ensured Boulis was pressured to divest his interests in Sun Cruz to 
Abramoff.
WMR sources report that Broward County prosecutors are livid about 
the failure of the FBI to inform them that Moscatiello was an FBI 
informant at the time of the Boulis murder. They are convinced that 
the George W. and Jeb Bush administrations in Washington and 
Tallahassee, respectively, deliberately blocked the prosecution from 
linking Moscatiello to the criminal cases against Abramoff and Kidan. 
Kidan placed Moscatiello and Ferrari on the Sun Cruz payroll after 
Abramoff assumed control of the company. Abramoff and Kidan were 
sentenced to over 5 years in prison last week for lying to financers 
in their purchase of Sun Cruz from Boulis. The light sentences were 
the result of plea agreements in which they prmised to cooperate with 
federal prosecutors.
However, the Sun Cruz case goes far beyond Abramoff and involves 
DeLay, according to informed sources. The Broward County prosecutors 
believe that the FBI's written summaries (FD-302s) of their 
interviews with Moscatiello were withheld from the prosecution by the 
FBI in order to protect senior GOP officials. Had the prosecution 
known Moscatiello was an FBI informer, he could have been offered a 
plea bargain in return for his cooperation against Republican 
politicians in Florida and Washington, DC.

The story behind the story: DeLay's involvement with Florida gangland 
mobsters probed by prosecutors stymied by withheld FBI interview 
forms and obstruction from George W. and Jeb Bush.
Prosecutors and investigative reporters in Miami and Fort Lauderdale 
are focusing on the time line involving Sun Cruz, Boulis, Abramoff, 
and DeLay. In February 2000, Abramoff began negotiations with Boulis 
for the sale of Sun Cruz, which Boulis eventually sold to Abramoff 
for a mere $147 million. At the time, Abramoff was a lobbyist for the 
well-connected Preston Gates law firm. After the November 2000 
election of George W. Bush, Boulis protested that he had been 
defrauded by Abramoff and Kidan in the sale of Sun Cruz. To avoid 
legal issues, Abramoff and Kidan began to make legal moves to move 
Sun Cruz's corporate headquarters from Florida to the Commonwealth of 
the Northern Marianas.
On December 13, 2000, Abramoff's Sun Cruz paid $145,000 to 
Moscatiello for "consulting services." On January 19, 2001, one day 
prior to the inauguration of George W. Bush, Boulis filed court 
action to block Abramoff's and Kidan's involvement with Sun Cruz. On 
January 20, 2001, Kidan and former DeLay aide Michael Scanlon met in 
DeLay's congressional office in Washington to "officially" celebrate 
the Bush inauguration. Scanlon, former DeLay aide Tony Rudy, 
Abramoff, and Kidan are all cooperating with federal prosecutors 
after agreeing to plea agreements.
On January 25, 2001, Abramoff reportedly flew DeLay's senior staffer 
Tim Berry, named his chief of staff in 2002, to Tampa for the Super 
Bowl and a meeting on one of the Sun Cruz casino boats. Suspiciously, 
Berry did not report the trip on disclosure forms, something DeLay's 
office later called an "honest mistake."
On February 6, 2001, Boulis was shot to death in his car after 
leaving his Fort Lauderdale office. Florida prosecutors have 
uncovered preliminary evidence that Sun Cruz was wrested from Boulis 
to enable hundreds of millions of dollars in cash could be laundered 
into GOP campaigns, including the DeLay and Bush-Cheney 2004 
campaigns, from the casino boats.