Abramoff Indicted on unrelated fraud.

Unrelated to the whole Delay investigations, Abramoff got indicted for fraud on a business deal. Notice the prominent inclusion of the death. Does the NYTimes want me to draw the conclusion? 'cause I sure did.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 - Jack Abramoff, the once-powerful Republican lobbyist involved in ethics allegations facing Representative Tom DeLay, was indicted in Florida on Thursday on unrelated fraud charges involving his purchase of a fleet of gambling boats from a businessman who was slain amid bitter wrangling over the sale. .....

There is no accusation that Mr. Abramoff or his partner, Adam R. Kidan, had any involvement in the death of the Fort Lauderdale businessman, Konstantinos Boulis, but the unsolved gangland-style killing produced extensive news coverage in Florida over the disputed sale of SunCruz. Mr. Boulis was gunned down while driving home in February 2001.

I'll update on this later when I have a little more time to look around.

UPDATE: Here's a link to somebody who has been on the Abramoff story a long time. Sounds like Miami in the eighties. Or maybe the garbage collection business.