Abramoff Crony Adam Kidan’s Sentence Cut In Half

US District Judge Paul Huck in Miami on Wednesday reduced the sentence of former Jack Abramoff associate Adam Kidan from 70 months to 35 months in prison because of his extensive cooperation in the SunCruz Casinos case which resulted in his and Abramoff’s convictions. Kidan pleaded guilty in December 2005 (followed by Abramoff’s plea in early 2006) to conspiracy and wire fraud in the case, admitting that he and Abramoff counterfeited a $23 million wire transfer which induced lenders to fund loans toward their purchase of the gambling ships from Gus Boulis. They were sentenced in March 2006; Kidan has already served 20 months in prison (Miami Herald).

Boulis was murdered in an apparent mob hit in 2001; the Herald story says that Kidan was attacked in prison in New Jersey after he was deposed by lawyers in the pending trial of three men accused in Boulis’ murder. Here’s the Washington Post’s extensive background article from 2005, including congressional connections.