Dania Beach Gambling Boat Associate May Have Been Targeted
Just weeks after the murder of SunCruz Casino founder Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis, a suspect in the slaying suggested using a dump truck to kill the company's former chief financial officer, a Boulis business rival told authorities.
Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari believed longtime Boulis associate, Joan Wagner, needed to be killed, removing her from the fight over control of the Dania Beach-based gambling ship fleet, Adam Kidan said in a taped May 1 statement to police. Kidan and Boulis had been warring over the company at the time of Boulis' Feb. 6, 2001, gangland-style killing and Boulis' business associates had continued the fight after his death. Ferrari said Wagner's death could be arranged to look like an accident, using a stolen dump truck to slam into her car, Kidan said.
Kidan said he told Ferrari not to touch Wagner.
"I said, 'You already killed one person, how are you going to kill someone else and get away with it?'"
Kidan said during his 21/2-hour statement to Fort Lauderdale police and the lead prosecutor in the murder case. Kidan talked to authorities as a condition of his plea deal for bank fraud charges tied to the purchase of SunCruz from Boulis. He has been sentenced to 70 months in prison on those charges and could get his sentence reduced by cooperating.
June 12, 2006
Posted By Susan Torres
Staff Editor, CasinoGamblingWeb.com
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