LETS MAKE A DEAL, JACK

"When one of my closest and dearest friends, Jack Abramoff, your most able representative in Washington, D.C., invited me to the islands,…”

Big time Republican lobbyist, Jack Abramoff, who is not only closely (and criminally) linked to Tom Delay but also to such Republican heavy-weights as Grover Norquist, Ralph Reed and congressman, Bob Ney from Ohio, was indicted by a federal grand jury today in a fraud case in which the person Abramoff bilked out of $23 million, ended up murdered in Ft. Lauderdale.

Sounds like Jack ought to start ‘chirping’- give up some of that valuable information you have on some of those big shooters. Maybe we could get some of those special Gitmo interrogators...time to make that deal Jack...

MIAMI, Aug. 11 -- Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff was indicted by a federal grand jury Thursday and federal agents were searching for him as part of a wide-ranging wire fraud case stemming from the purchase of a Florida casino cruise line from a businessman later murdered in Fort Lauderdale, sources close to the case said.

Abramoff, a key figure in ethics investigations into House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), was expected to be arrested and taken to a U.S. magistrate. He was indicted along with Adam Kidan, the former owner of the Dial-A-Mattress franchise in Washington. Kidan, 41, of New York City, is expected to surrender himself to the FBI here by Friday morning.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/11/AR2005081101108.html