Last month, CREW designated J. Stephen Griles as one of the 25 most corrupt officials in the Bush Administration in our report, Criminals & Scoundrels.  From the Associated Press (via TPM Muckraker), we learn that Mr. Griles, who had the number two job at the Department of the Interior, will be pleading guilty to an Abramoff-related charge of obstruction of justice: 

Former Deputy Interior Secretary Steven Griles will plead guilty to one count of obstruction of justice in the Jack Abramoff corruption investigation, The Associated Press has learned.

Griles, an oil and gas lobbyist who became an architect of President Bush's energy policies while at the Interior Department between July 2001 and July 2005, is the highest ranking Bush administration official implicated in the Washington lobbying scandal.

Paul Kiel at TPM Muckraker notes that Mr. Griles got himself a "very good deal."