December 18th 2008 Channel 9 news- Ben Cousins has flown back into a storm of controversy amid court claims of links to an accused gangland killer. As Cousins today begins a new life as a Richmond footballer, police yesterday named the fallen champ in court as being connected to alleged underworld figure Angelo Venditti. "Fat Ange" Venditti is charged with the contract killing of drug dealer Paul Kallipolitis in Sunshine in 2002. Police allege slain underworld hitman Andrew "Benji" Veniamin was the hired gun who carried out the killing. In opposing bail for Mr Venditti in the Supreme Court yesterday, the homicide squad's Sen-Det Tim Bell said the accused killer had been under police surveillance since May. Sen-Det Tim Bell told a court that monitoring and surveillance which began in May this year uncovered Mr Venditti's extensive ties to high-profile sporting, business and criminal identities. He named Cousins, underworld figure Mick Gatto, Perth underworld kingpin John Kizon and accused drug importer Fabian Quaid - also a friend of Cousins - as among Mr Venditti's connections. Last month, only a week before the national draft and just days ahead of a St Kilda board meeting thought then to be critical to his hopes of a return to the game, Cousins flew to Melbourne to attend the funeral of convicted drug trafficker, John Giannarelli. Cousins was quizzed by police in 2005 over a nightclub brawl involving Kizon, an associate of slain standover man Alphonse Gangitano ...
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