Retrial begins for Anthony 'Big Tony' Moscatiello
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Yeah if he flipped that would mean that the feds would have to somehow get the state to let him out into their custody and that isn't happening in Florida.
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Even if he got a death sentence, considering his age and that the appeals usually last more than 20 years, he will die a natural death, even if serving on death row.
A question by the way: are the prison conditions on death row harsher than in normal prisons or is it the same apart from the fact that you are eventually supposed to be executed there?
Also: do you think Moscatiello got authorization for the murder from the Gambino boss at the time (was it Peter Gotti?) or did he act by himself even though he is just a soldier?
A question by the way: are the prison conditions on death row harsher than in normal prisons or is it the same apart from the fact that you are eventually supposed to be executed there?
Also: do you think Moscatiello got authorization for the murder from the Gambino boss at the time (was it Peter Gotti?) or did he act by himself even though he is just a soldier?
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j.j. was with pete also, maybe he did give the o.k.
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Dwalin2014 wrote:Even if he got a death sentence, considering his age and that the appeals usually last more than 20 years, he will die a natural death, even if serving on death row.
A question by the way: are the prison conditions on death row harsher than in normal prisons or is it the same apart from the fact that you are eventually supposed to be executed there?
Also: do you think Moscatiello got authorization for the murder from the Gambino boss at the time (was it Peter Gotti?) or did he act by himself even though he is just a soldier?
Death row is 23 hour a day lockdown and you get rec maybe once every 2 or 3 days in a cage. Anytime you are out of your cell you are shackled and have zero contact with other inmates. If I had the choice I would just have them kill me in courtroom but knowing Ill die of old age Ill take life. Their are lifers in Florida who have good behavior who live pretty comfortably. But with this guys age hell be in and out of the medical center in Jacksonville.
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14 years from murder to conviction in slaying of Miami Subs founder
It was the beginning of the end of one of South Florida's most enduring criminal cases — featuring shady business deals and mob connections and culminating in the execution-style murder of Miami Subs founder Gus Boulis on a Fort Lauderdale street. .
As the guilty verdicts were read in a Broward courtroom Wednesday, Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello, 77, sat in the defense chair, his face refusing to betray any emotion. His wife and daughters sat in the front row, sobbing.
After 14 years, two trials, one guilty plea, and the death of the alleged gunman, the next steps in the case are almost routine. The jury will return on Sept. 16 to consider whether Moscatiello should be executed for arranging Boulis' murder. The judge will consider their recommendation and impose a sentence.
"It's the moral principle involved," said Assistant State Attorney Brian Cavanagh, who shepherded the prosecution from its presentation to the grand jury in September 2005 until today. "This is a contract killing. This is heightened premeditation. This is the kind of case that the death penalty is reserved for."
Defense lawyer Ken Malnik said it would be "ridiculous" to seek execution for a man who's not likely to outlive the appeals process, especially when his co-defendant, Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the same crime.
"It's supposed to be proportional. Ferrari was way more involved with this," Malnik said. "What's the deterrent value, really? If he is alive, he'll be so infirm, it really makes no sense."
The foundation for the murder of Boulis was laid in the late 1990s, with a little-known law barring foreigners from owning American commercial vessels.
Boulis, a Greek national, was forced to sell SunCruz Casinos, a fleet of 11 ships that offered "cruises to nowhere," bringing passengers far enough out to sea that Florida's laws against gambling did not apply. The fleet brought in millions of dollars a year, and the offer for it was $147.5 million.
That offer came from a business partnership led by two men who were engaged in a fraudulent gamble of their own. Washington D.C. lobbyist Jack Abramoff and New York businessman Adam Kidan, who was once associated with the popular Dial-a-Mattress company, made false representations to banks, investors and the government to buy SunCruz from Boulis in late 2000.
Boulis kept waiting for payments from Kidan and Abramoff that never came. Hostilities grew between Kidan, who was in South Florida to run the business, and Boulis, who began to realize he was being swindled.
Kidan filed a restraining order against Boulis in December 2000, accusing the Miami Subs founder of attacking him and threatening to kill him during a business meeting.
Kidan would later tell investigators that he feared Boulis would try to hire the mob to have him killed, so he reached out to the mob to protect him.
The man he found was Moscatiello. According to Kidan's testimony, Moscatiello came on board with Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari, reputed to be a lower-level mobster who presented himself as the nephew of Gambino crime family boss John Gotti.
Their agreement was simple, Kidan said. Kidan would purchase wine from Moscatiello's distributorship for the SunCruz boats, and additional payments would be made to Ferrari's company, Moon Over Miami Beach, to provide security. In reality, Kidan said, the money was for protection: No one could hire the mob to kill someone the mob was protecting.
Boulis had enough and went to court to try to regain control of SunCruz.
And that, according to prosecutors, was a direct threat to Moscatiello's bottom line.
Several witnesses testified that Moscatiello tried to hire them to kill Boulis. One, who testified under the name "Nick DiMaggio," said he was offended by the offer, not because it involved murder, but because the motive was money. "In my prior life, you didn't kill people for money," he said during Ferrari's murder trial in 2013. "If it was principle, you killed them. If you killed people for money, it was cursed. I didn't kill people for money. Principle, yes; money, no."
DiMaggio was actually a mobster named Peter "Bud" Zaccaro, a confessed hit man who had cut a deal with prosecutors in 2005 to testify against numerous figures, including Moscatiello and Ferrari.
Prosecutors believe the gunman who eventually took the job was Zaccaro's childhood friend, John Gurino.
On Feb. 6, 2001, as Boulis left his Fort Lauderdale office, his car was boxed in. The vehicle in front of him wouldn't budge. The car behind him was driven by a witness out shopping for milk. Gurino, according to prosecutors, drove up to Boulis' car from the opposite direction, reached out and fired his gun, striking Boulis four times.
Barely clinging to life, Boulis managed to drive a little more than a block before crashing his car on Federal Highway, just south of the 17th Street Causeway.
James "Pudgy" Fiorillo, a gopher who worked for Ferrari, later admitted that he contacted Ferrari to let him know Boulis had left his office that night, minutes before the shooting.
Boulis' murder intensified the scrutiny around the SunCruz sale. Kidan and Abramoff, neither of whom were implicated in the murder, admitted their fraud and served prison sentences. Both are now free.
Gurino was killed in an unrelated shooting in Boca Raton in 2003.
Moscatiello, Ferrari and Fiorillo were charged in 2005 after a lengthy investigation, followed by lengthier pre-trial maneuvers. More than 100 witnesses were interviewed by lawyers on both sides.
From May 2009 until late 2010, no pre-trial hearings were held at all. Attorneys sat and waited for the judge to decide on a motion to suppress cell-site information, fraught with complications in state and federal law.
Hollywood produced a movie featuring the murder, "Casino Jack," before the justice system could produce a trial.
Then, in April 2012, "Pudgy" flipped. Fiorillo pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge and agreed to testify against his co-defendants in exchange for a six-year sentence, which he had already served waiting for trial.
That meant more delays as the remaining defendants prepared to treat a former ally as an adversary on the stand.
Finally, in October 2013, a jury was seated and sequestered, and Moscatiello and Ferrari were on trial for murder.
Things did not go as planned. Moscatiello's lawyer, David Bogenschutz, fell ill two weeks into the trial, prompting first a delay and then a mistrial for Moscatiello. Ferrari was convicted and is serving a life sentence.
Bogenschutz would later drop out of the case altogether. After nine years, Moscatiello could no longer afford his services. He was replaced by Malnik, who had been sitting in on the case to handle the penalty phase should Moscatiello be convicted.
During the trial that ended last Wednesday, Malnik tried to blame the murder on Ferrari, who bragged about his mob ties, and Kidan, the victim's chief business rival. The jury rejected the argument.
Moscatiello, who had been free on bond, will spend the rest of his life in the custody of the state justice system.
After the verdict was read, Broward Circuit Judge Ilona Holmes thanked the jurors for their service and dismissed them from the courtroom. They rose to their feet and filed out of the courtroom.
Moscatiello's wife, Marion, muttered loud enough for those near her to hear.
"They get to go home."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/browa ... tml#page=2
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It was the beginning of the end of one of South Florida's most enduring criminal cases — featuring shady business deals and mob connections and culminating in the execution-style murder of Miami Subs founder Gus Boulis on a Fort Lauderdale street. .
As the guilty verdicts were read in a Broward courtroom Wednesday, Anthony "Big Tony" Moscatiello, 77, sat in the defense chair, his face refusing to betray any emotion. His wife and daughters sat in the front row, sobbing.
After 14 years, two trials, one guilty plea, and the death of the alleged gunman, the next steps in the case are almost routine. The jury will return on Sept. 16 to consider whether Moscatiello should be executed for arranging Boulis' murder. The judge will consider their recommendation and impose a sentence.
"It's the moral principle involved," said Assistant State Attorney Brian Cavanagh, who shepherded the prosecution from its presentation to the grand jury in September 2005 until today. "This is a contract killing. This is heightened premeditation. This is the kind of case that the death penalty is reserved for."
Defense lawyer Ken Malnik said it would be "ridiculous" to seek execution for a man who's not likely to outlive the appeals process, especially when his co-defendant, Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the same crime.
"It's supposed to be proportional. Ferrari was way more involved with this," Malnik said. "What's the deterrent value, really? If he is alive, he'll be so infirm, it really makes no sense."
The foundation for the murder of Boulis was laid in the late 1990s, with a little-known law barring foreigners from owning American commercial vessels.
Boulis, a Greek national, was forced to sell SunCruz Casinos, a fleet of 11 ships that offered "cruises to nowhere," bringing passengers far enough out to sea that Florida's laws against gambling did not apply. The fleet brought in millions of dollars a year, and the offer for it was $147.5 million.
That offer came from a business partnership led by two men who were engaged in a fraudulent gamble of their own. Washington D.C. lobbyist Jack Abramoff and New York businessman Adam Kidan, who was once associated with the popular Dial-a-Mattress company, made false representations to banks, investors and the government to buy SunCruz from Boulis in late 2000.
Boulis kept waiting for payments from Kidan and Abramoff that never came. Hostilities grew between Kidan, who was in South Florida to run the business, and Boulis, who began to realize he was being swindled.
Kidan filed a restraining order against Boulis in December 2000, accusing the Miami Subs founder of attacking him and threatening to kill him during a business meeting.
Kidan would later tell investigators that he feared Boulis would try to hire the mob to have him killed, so he reached out to the mob to protect him.
The man he found was Moscatiello. According to Kidan's testimony, Moscatiello came on board with Anthony "Little Tony" Ferrari, reputed to be a lower-level mobster who presented himself as the nephew of Gambino crime family boss John Gotti.
Their agreement was simple, Kidan said. Kidan would purchase wine from Moscatiello's distributorship for the SunCruz boats, and additional payments would be made to Ferrari's company, Moon Over Miami Beach, to provide security. In reality, Kidan said, the money was for protection: No one could hire the mob to kill someone the mob was protecting.
Boulis had enough and went to court to try to regain control of SunCruz.
And that, according to prosecutors, was a direct threat to Moscatiello's bottom line.
Several witnesses testified that Moscatiello tried to hire them to kill Boulis. One, who testified under the name "Nick DiMaggio," said he was offended by the offer, not because it involved murder, but because the motive was money. "In my prior life, you didn't kill people for money," he said during Ferrari's murder trial in 2013. "If it was principle, you killed them. If you killed people for money, it was cursed. I didn't kill people for money. Principle, yes; money, no."
DiMaggio was actually a mobster named Peter "Bud" Zaccaro, a confessed hit man who had cut a deal with prosecutors in 2005 to testify against numerous figures, including Moscatiello and Ferrari.
Prosecutors believe the gunman who eventually took the job was Zaccaro's childhood friend, John Gurino.
On Feb. 6, 2001, as Boulis left his Fort Lauderdale office, his car was boxed in. The vehicle in front of him wouldn't budge. The car behind him was driven by a witness out shopping for milk. Gurino, according to prosecutors, drove up to Boulis' car from the opposite direction, reached out and fired his gun, striking Boulis four times.
Barely clinging to life, Boulis managed to drive a little more than a block before crashing his car on Federal Highway, just south of the 17th Street Causeway.
James "Pudgy" Fiorillo, a gopher who worked for Ferrari, later admitted that he contacted Ferrari to let him know Boulis had left his office that night, minutes before the shooting.
Boulis' murder intensified the scrutiny around the SunCruz sale. Kidan and Abramoff, neither of whom were implicated in the murder, admitted their fraud and served prison sentences. Both are now free.
Gurino was killed in an unrelated shooting in Boca Raton in 2003.
Moscatiello, Ferrari and Fiorillo were charged in 2005 after a lengthy investigation, followed by lengthier pre-trial maneuvers. More than 100 witnesses were interviewed by lawyers on both sides.
From May 2009 until late 2010, no pre-trial hearings were held at all. Attorneys sat and waited for the judge to decide on a motion to suppress cell-site information, fraught with complications in state and federal law.
Hollywood produced a movie featuring the murder, "Casino Jack," before the justice system could produce a trial.
Then, in April 2012, "Pudgy" flipped. Fiorillo pleaded guilty to the conspiracy charge and agreed to testify against his co-defendants in exchange for a six-year sentence, which he had already served waiting for trial.
That meant more delays as the remaining defendants prepared to treat a former ally as an adversary on the stand.
Finally, in October 2013, a jury was seated and sequestered, and Moscatiello and Ferrari were on trial for murder.
Things did not go as planned. Moscatiello's lawyer, David Bogenschutz, fell ill two weeks into the trial, prompting first a delay and then a mistrial for Moscatiello. Ferrari was convicted and is serving a life sentence.
Bogenschutz would later drop out of the case altogether. After nine years, Moscatiello could no longer afford his services. He was replaced by Malnik, who had been sitting in on the case to handle the penalty phase should Moscatiello be convicted.
During the trial that ended last Wednesday, Malnik tried to blame the murder on Ferrari, who bragged about his mob ties, and Kidan, the victim's chief business rival. The jury rejected the argument.
Moscatiello, who had been free on bond, will spend the rest of his life in the custody of the state justice system.
After the verdict was read, Broward Circuit Judge Ilona Holmes thanked the jurors for their service and dismissed them from the courtroom. They rose to their feet and filed out of the courtroom.
Moscatiello's wife, Marion, muttered loud enough for those near her to hear.
"They get to go home."
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Can't see it, pretty sure in the first trial he was laughing and joking saying give me the chairbronx wrote:what are the odds on him flipping? any opinions.. florida is not NY..they sit you in old sparky..
Might hav been someone else in the trial Never know though, i asked this earlier in the thread but I'm pretty sure his son, anthony jr is a made guy in the Trucchio/now Monk crew, scary looking mother fucker, built like a brick shit house, pure muscle. think he gets out next month.-
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Moscatiello sentenced to life in prison for Miami Subs founder's murder
Athony "Big Tony" Moscatiello was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for orchestrating the 2001 murder of Miami Subs founder Gus Boulis, but not before taking a parting shot at the prosecutors who put him behind bars.
Moscatiello, 76, avoided a death sentence when the jury that convicted him returned Thursday and recommended a life sentence instead. Broward Circuit Judge Ilona Holmes honored the jury's decision and was preparing to pass the sentence when she gave the defendant an opportunity to speak.
After briefly addressing the judge, Moscatiello turned to face Spiro Naos, the victim's nephew, who was seated in the first row of the gallery.
"I truly am sorry about what happened to Gus, but I assure you I had nothing to do with it," he said. He promised to help identify Boulis' killer if he wins an appeal, denouncing the prosecution's theory that he hired a hitman named John Gurino to do the job.
"I'll make sure we all know who the shooter is," he said. "It was not John Gurino. Definitely not John Gurino. He left a wife and three children." Gurino was killed in an unrelated shooting in 2003. Moscatiello said Gurino's legacy was tainted by the prosecution's portrayal of him as Boulis' killer.
Read more: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/browa ... story.html
Athony "Big Tony" Moscatiello was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for orchestrating the 2001 murder of Miami Subs founder Gus Boulis, but not before taking a parting shot at the prosecutors who put him behind bars.
Moscatiello, 76, avoided a death sentence when the jury that convicted him returned Thursday and recommended a life sentence instead. Broward Circuit Judge Ilona Holmes honored the jury's decision and was preparing to pass the sentence when she gave the defendant an opportunity to speak.
After briefly addressing the judge, Moscatiello turned to face Spiro Naos, the victim's nephew, who was seated in the first row of the gallery.
"I truly am sorry about what happened to Gus, but I assure you I had nothing to do with it," he said. He promised to help identify Boulis' killer if he wins an appeal, denouncing the prosecution's theory that he hired a hitman named John Gurino to do the job.
"I'll make sure we all know who the shooter is," he said. "It was not John Gurino. Definitely not John Gurino. He left a wife and three children." Gurino was killed in an unrelated shooting in 2003. Moscatiello said Gurino's legacy was tainted by the prosecution's portrayal of him as Boulis' killer.
Read more: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/browa ... story.html
Obama's a pimp he coulda never outfought Trump, but I didn't know it till this day that it was Putin all along.
Re: Retrial begins for Anthony 'Big Tony' Moscatiello
He will have to serve it in WitSec unit do to the fact that they outed him as a long time FBI informant.
Re: Retrial begins for Anthony 'Big Tony' Moscatiello
He will be in witsec because he is an FBI informant. Prison official wont let him in general population for liability issues there.brianwellbrock wrote:Dwalin2014 wrote:Even if he got a death sentence, considering his age and that the appeals usually last more than 20 years, he will die a natural death, even if serving on death row.
A question by the way: are the prison conditions on death row harsher than in normal prisons or is it the same apart from the fact that you are eventually supposed to be executed there?
Also: do you think Moscatiello got authorization for the murder from the Gambino boss at the time (was it Peter Gotti?) or did he act by himself even though he is just a soldier?
Death row is 23 hour a day lockdown and you get rec maybe once every 2 or 3 days in a cage. Anytime you are out of your cell you are shackled and have zero contact with other inmates. If I had the choice I would just have them kill me in courtroom but knowing Ill die of old age Ill take life. Their are lifers in Florida who have good behavior who live pretty comfortably. But with this guys age hell be in and out of the medical center in Jacksonville.
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IF it is his son his rep just got a little tarnished within the Gambino's since his old man is a rat for yrs. Jr should start looking for ajob....TommyGambino wrote:Can't see it, pretty sure in the first trial he was laughing and joking saying give me the chairbronx wrote:what are the odds on him flipping? any opinions.. florida is not NY..they sit you in old sparky..
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Someone on the other site said it defo is his son. I think it depends on the person tbh, if they think he's solid and well liked I'm sure they'll keep him around. Look at Grande in Philly, his dad was a rat. Joey G and Sonny Franzese had sons that flipped and they kept there stripes, same with numerous others.Rocco wrote:IF it is his son his rep just got a little tarnished within the Gambino's since his old man is a rat for yrs. Jr should start looking for ajob....TommyGambino wrote:Can't see it, pretty sure in the first trial he was laughing and joking saying give me the chairbronx wrote:what are the odds on him flipping? any opinions.. florida is not NY..they sit you in old sparky..
Rocco i remember reading the Capeci article when he broke the news about Moscatiello being an informer, he barely wrote 2 lines on it, found it strange.
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he may go to the hole or adx if they feel he is in danger..like scarpa jr. and caso