Unbelievable.
We'll have to wait and see if Abramoff, like most people indicted in federal court starts singing like a bird.
This could be the beginning of a very slippery slope of trouble for many connected to Abramoff.
When the powers of the criminal arm of the U.S. Department of Justice are on top of you, most people would sell out their mother.
The story from the Miami Herald after the jump.
From the Miami Hearld
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/12358861.htm
FBI agents were seeking to arrest a once-powerful Washington, D.C., lobbyist on Thursday after a Fort Lauderdale federal grand jury charged him and a New York businessman with scheming to defraud two lenders in a $147.5 million purchase of SunCruz Casinos.
Agents were to take Republican insider Jack Abramoff into custody on Thursday afternoon in the Baltimore area. His partner in the controversial 2000 SunCruz acquisition, Adam Kidan, was expected to surrender to authorities, according to sources familiar with the probe.
The South Florida indictment charging the duo with defrauding $60 million from two lenders that financed the sale instantly rocked the nation's corridors of power. Indeed, rumors of their imminent arrests circulated during the past week.
According to federal court records, Abramoff, 40, is accused of using some of SunCruz's income to subsidize his fundraising endeavors, including paying for private boxes at FedEx Field, MCI Center and Oriole Park at Camden Yards to entertain major GOP donors and politicians.
The Fort Lauderdale bank-fraud indictment represents only one of several potential legal serious legal problems for Abramoff and Kidan that stretch from South Florida to the Northeast.
Police have also been questioning them about the gangland-style hit on Konstantinos ''Gus'' Boulis, the rag-to-riches Greek immigrant who sold his fleet of casino ships to the Kidan-led group in September 2000.
Boulis, 51, was gunned down in Fort Lauderdale on Feb. 6, 2001. Police have not charged anybody in the homicide investigation.
Very, very interesting.