Tom, you're up next.

Rep. Tom DeLay's good ole bud Jack Abramoff was indicted on "five counts of wire fraud and conspiracy."

Abramoff, a key figure in ethics investigations into House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.), was arrested in Los Angeles in late afternoon Eastern time and was expected to be taken to a U.S. magistrate there. He was indicted along with Adam Kidan, the former owner of the Dial-A-Mattress franchise in Washington. Kidan, 41, of New York City, will surrender to the FBI here by Friday morning, his attorney, Martin I. Jaffe, said in a written statement......

Abramoff, and two business and political friends -- Kidan and Ben Waldman of Springfield, Va. -- purchased SunCruz Casinos in September 2000 for $147.5 million from Konstantinos "Gus" Boulis. Records and interviews show that Abramoff used his connections to members of Congress to help seal the purchase of the company. Waldman was not indicted in the case.

Oh, but it won't be enough to leave it there.

Abramoff, 46, remains the subject of a separate federal corruption investigation in Washington stemming from his work for casino-rich Indian tribes.

Wouldn't it be fun to see a DeLay ethics investigation unrolling the summer of 2006? Actually, it'd be spectacular if DeLay's case, Valerie Plamegate, the Downing Street Memo, and oh yeah, the illegality of the war in Iraq all kind of broke loose then. Or maybe like October of 2008.