There is a warrant out for Jack Abramoff's arrest, and FBI agents are planning to take him into custody in the Baltimore area. Abramoff is wanted for his part in a bank fraud scheme in Miami, Florida that cost investors millions and one man his life. The Associated Press wrote on Thursday.

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.

Just so there is no confusion, the Associated Press also pointed out the difference between this indictment and the possible trouble Abramoff, Tom DeLay, and other Congressional Republicans face from a Washington, DC-based grand jury...

Abramoff has been a target of a separate Washington federal probe into millions of dollars in fees that he and a lobbyist partner raked in from Indian tribes that own casinos.

The embattled lobbyist-lawyer has also come under intense scrutiny for his fundraising and other political activities on behalf of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, of Texas, who himself is under attack by Democrats for alleged unethical conduct.

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.

In a particularly disturbing twist Abramoff has also been questioned about the murder of the man who they bought the cruise line from.

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.

Also, this news makes a previously unusual statement by Representative Bob Ney (R-OH) take on a deeper meaning. On March 30, 2000 Ney entered a statement into the congressional record critical of the Mr. Boulis, and in support of Jack Abrmamoff. Why would Ney do such a thing? Could it be the perhaps the thousands in campaign contributions from Abramoffs investment group? The Washington Post reported in December:

Abramoff's fundraising log shows an event for Ney at MCI Center on March 15, 2001. FEC records show that Abramoff and three men associated with him in a Florida-based casino cruise line called Suncruz each donated $1,000 to Ney that day. Ney had been helpful to them the year before, when Abramoff and a partner, Adam Kidan, were embroiled in acrimonious efforts to buy Suncruz. In an unusual step, Ney criticized the cruise line's owner, Gus Boulis, in statements placed in the March 30, 2000, Congressional Record, putting pressure on Boulis to sell; he then praised Kidan as Suncruz's new owner when the sale went through.