By Dan Christensen, FloridaBulldog.org
It was the first epic South Florida scandal of the 21st Century and Adam Kidan was smack in the middle of it – a $14.5-million fraud wrapped in a congressional influence-peddling scandal inside a Mafia hit.
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.
The happy couple celebrated their first anniversary with another pricey bash at Mar-a-Lago in February.
Federal election records show that not long after the wedding, on April 27, 2023, Kidan cut the first of three $250,000 checks to the Trump super PAC, Make America Great Again Inc., via his company, Churchill Business Consultants of Lancaster, PA. The next two checks were dated Aug. 3, 2023 and Feb. 28, 2024 – bringing the total through June 30 to $750,000.
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