Interested in hearing your thoughts here...
I would think that if this guy really was about to be indicted that the "friend" and colleague would already have been thoroughly harassed by the FBI by now. And if the friend and colleague doesn't like being harassed why would he or she go to the press and for all practical purposes beg to be harassed by them instead? What kind of a friend tells the world that their dead buddy overdosed before the obit even makes the news?