For the third day Wednesday, Andrew “Chef” Glick returned to the stand in Ferdinand “Freddy” Augello's trial surrounding the 2012 murder of April Kauffman.
10:30 a.m.: After playing a brief audio-only recording, another video is being played of a meet in Upper Township with Augello in December 2017.
They talked again about killing the doctor in jail and money.
The court took a mid-morning break.
10:15 a.m.: In another video recording played, Glick and Augello are meeting somewhere near the woods on Dec. 2, 2017. Glick in the video talks about poisoning the doctor's food in jail, and finding out what cell he is in.
Augello is not heard explicitly telling Glick to poison the doctor, but inquires how it's done.
9:30 a.m.: Glick testified that he and Augello talked about killing James Kauffman in jail. Augello said he was speaking with his own people, Glick said.
“He had talked to his Sicilian friends about getting the doc in Atlantic County Jail,” Glick said.
Glick said Augello told him that he wanted Kauffman dead "the sooner the better."
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As part of Glick's testimony on Tuesday, Chief Assistant Prosecutor Seth Levy played an over hourlong recorded conversation between Augello and Glick, who served as a confidential informant for the state after he was arrested in November 2017.
The trial continues at 9 a.m. Wednesday with more testimony.
Glick was giving Augello a copy of the Jacobs Letter, a letter written by Dr. James Kauffman’s former attorney, Edwin Jacobs, that named Augello and Francis Mulholland as possible suspects in the murder.
“I didn’t murder this guy’s wife,” Augello said to Glick in the recording, arguing that for it to be a murder, they need a weapon or DNA on the body. “Where is the murderer? This is bizarre.”
Augello, 62, of Upper Township, is charged in the 2012 murder of April Kauffman, conspiracy to murder Dr. James Kauffman and racketeering in leading a drug ring out of the doctor’s Egg Harbor Township medical practice.
Augello, a former sign maker and retired Pagans motorcycle club president, read the transcript closely as it played through the speakers in the courtroom, shaking his head and writing notes.
Glick testified that Augello was “dumbfounded, amazed, couldn’t believe” that he was mentioned in the Jacobs letter, but that while he was talking, he was writing notes to Glick that named people involved in the drug ring and others they were or weren’t worried about.
Mulholland, the hitman authorities believe fatally shot April Kauffman in her Linwood home, died in October 2013 from a drug overdose in his home in the Villas section of Lower Township.
Levy also showed a video recording from a meeting in a restaurant, where Glick and Augello passed notes while talking. Glick said Augello wrote down Mulholland’s name to say he was dead, thereby admitting he knew him.
https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/crime/kauffman/jury-listens-to-more-recordings-in-kauffman-murder-trial/article_57bbd509-5443-57b4-a228-d4804296dfb3.html
10:30 a.m.: After playing a brief audio-only recording, another video is being played of a meet in Upper Township with Augello in December 2017.
They talked again about killing the doctor in jail and money.
The court took a mid-morning break.
10:15 a.m.: In another video recording played, Glick and Augello are meeting somewhere near the woods on Dec. 2, 2017. Glick in the video talks about poisoning the doctor's food in jail, and finding out what cell he is in.
Augello is not heard explicitly telling Glick to poison the doctor, but inquires how it's done.
9:30 a.m.: Glick testified that he and Augello talked about killing James Kauffman in jail. Augello said he was speaking with his own people, Glick said.
“He had talked to his Sicilian friends about getting the doc in Atlantic County Jail,” Glick said.
Glick said Augello told him that he wanted Kauffman dead "the sooner the better."
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As part of Glick's testimony on Tuesday, Chief Assistant Prosecutor Seth Levy played an over hourlong recorded conversation between Augello and Glick, who served as a confidential informant for the state after he was arrested in November 2017.
The trial continues at 9 a.m. Wednesday with more testimony.
Glick was giving Augello a copy of the Jacobs Letter, a letter written by Dr. James Kauffman’s former attorney, Edwin Jacobs, that named Augello and Francis Mulholland as possible suspects in the murder.
“I didn’t murder this guy’s wife,” Augello said to Glick in the recording, arguing that for it to be a murder, they need a weapon or DNA on the body. “Where is the murderer? This is bizarre.”
Augello, 62, of Upper Township, is charged in the 2012 murder of April Kauffman, conspiracy to murder Dr. James Kauffman and racketeering in leading a drug ring out of the doctor’s Egg Harbor Township medical practice.
Augello, a former sign maker and retired Pagans motorcycle club president, read the transcript closely as it played through the speakers in the courtroom, shaking his head and writing notes.
Glick testified that Augello was “dumbfounded, amazed, couldn’t believe” that he was mentioned in the Jacobs letter, but that while he was talking, he was writing notes to Glick that named people involved in the drug ring and others they were or weren’t worried about.
Mulholland, the hitman authorities believe fatally shot April Kauffman in her Linwood home, died in October 2013 from a drug overdose in his home in the Villas section of Lower Township.
Levy also showed a video recording from a meeting in a restaurant, where Glick and Augello passed notes while talking. Glick said Augello wrote down Mulholland’s name to say he was dead, thereby admitting he knew him.
https://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/crime/kauffman/jury-listens-to-more-recordings-in-kauffman-murder-trial/article_57bbd509-5443-57b4-a228-d4804296dfb3.html
