:The story was originally written before the first Abramoff indictment and described the corrupt lobbying operation run by Abramoff, Scanlon, Reed and Norquist. The crux of the original story was that Abramoff used money from the Indian tribes to pay Reed to run anti-gambling campaigns. Reed was not a minor partner in that event, he was central to it. Abramoff and Reed were running a classic K-Street shakedown operation together, tribes who failed to pay Abramoff would be attacked by Reed. Since then the bribery aspect of the story has taken center stage and the center of gravity has shifted from K-street to the hill.  

 :The only indictment in this particular scandal to date is of Scanlon who has made a plea bargain. Abramoff has not been charged in this case, the Sun Cruz indictment is not connected. The Scanlon indictment makes it clear that charges are likely to be brought against Ney, DeLay and several others.  

 :There probably should be three separate Abramoff scandal stories. The Indian Gambling scandal should probably be split into two, one on the K-Street shakedown operation and a second on the Abramoff bribery scandals, the Sun-Cruz casinos affair is complex enough and involves enough players to justify a story in its own right.