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struggle4progress

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3. Gangsterism runs wild
Sun Jul 5, 2026, 12:24 PM
Sunday
SunCruz fraudster Adam Kidan who paid Trump millions draws pardon from Trump

... The Palm Beach Gardens resident, who served less than half of a 70-month federal prison sentence for fraud and conspiracy in the 2000 purchase of SunCruz Casinos, immediately saw both his status as a felon and his obligation to pay restitution ($21.7 million plus interest that’s been accumulating since his March 2006 conviction) dissolve. He pleaded guilty along with ex-super lobbyist Jack Abramoff.

There is no indication in Kidan’s Miami court file that he ever paid any of the millions he owed to his victims, who include the now-grown sons of SunCruz and Miami Subs founder Konstantinos “Gus” Boulis, Aristotle and Alexander Hren-Boulis. Their father was shot to death on Feb. 6, 2001, on Miami Road near Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale by a Mafia hitman. Kidan’s mob associate later pleaded guilty ...

https://www.floridabulldog.org/2026/07/suncruz-fraudster-adam-kidan-who-paid-trump-millions-draws-pardon/#google_vignette

Strange trip from SunCruz scandal to big time Republican donor
Sep 27, 2024 5:00 AM

... Fifteen years after serving just 31 months in federal prison for his part in that bold and ultimately deadly fraud, Kidan has reinvented himself. Today, he’s a self-described “business leader” and the CEO of the national staffing company Empire Workforce Solutions, a major Republican donor and acolyte and customer of Donald Trump.

Kidan, 60, is a member at Trump’s pricey private club and Palm Beach residence, Mar-a-Lago, where in February 2023 he staged his “fairytale” wedding ceremony to Brazilian-born Cristiani De Fatima Pereira, 23 years his junior. About 250 guests, including the former president and his wife, Melania, were entertained by the famed Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, video of the event shows ...

https://www.floridabulldog.org/2024/09/adam-kidan-long-strange-trip-suncruz-scandal-big-time-republican-donor/

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