Former SunCruz Casinos owner and business partner of Jack Abramoff
Adam Kidan
a.k.a. “The Club Member”
In 2006 he was convicted with Jack Abramoff of fraud in the purchase of a Florida casino-boat company and ordered to pay $21.7 million. Twenty years later, he was a Mar-a-Lago member who had put more than a million dollars into Trump’s 2024 campaign. Then came the pardon.
Rap sheet
The receipt
PARDONMAXXING ADAM KIDAN - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Money on the table (reported)
- Mar-a-Lago initiation fee [3] $700,000
- Donations to Trump’s campaign and allied committees, 2024 cycle [3] $1,130,000
Wiped off the books
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“Coincidence ROI”* 1,086%
Thank you for your business
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*Satire. Money erased ÷ money on the table, minus one. We’re not saying there’s a connection. The math is just sitting there.
Gold is money that was reportedly spent near the President’s orbit. Red is what the grant wiped away. We list what was reported and when. We don’t claim one caused the other. How we count.
Timeline
- March 29, 2006 The law Sentenced to 70 months and ordered to pay $21.7 million in restitution. [1]
- February 2023 The money Holds his wedding at Mar-a-Lago, where he paid a $700,000 initiation fee. The Trumps attend. [3]
- undefined 2024 The money Gives more than $1.13 million to Trump’s campaign and allied committees. [3]
- June 30, 2026 The money Gives $2,600 to a Republican congressman’s leadership PAC. The office later said it never advocated for the pardon and returned the money. [4]
- July 3, 2026 The pardon Pardoned. [2][5]
Detective’s notes
CommentaryA $700,000 membership, a wedding at the club, and seven figures in donations. At some point that stops being a hobby and becomes a strategy.
The restitution was ordered in 2006. According to the Florida Bulldog, there’s no court record that he ever paid it. Now nobody will ask.