TPM: Guam Prosecutor Removed From Abramoff Case in 2002

There is a rather cryptic article in tomorrow's New York Times about Jack Abramoff's first brush with the law back in 2002 and how he got unbrushed. This is the case in late 2002, when the Acting US Attorney in Guam opened a criminal probe into Jack Abramoff's lobbying activities in the US Pacific island protectorate. Yet days after federal prosecutor Frederick A. Black notified the Justice Department's Public Integrity section of his inquiry into Abramoff, he was demoted. And his new bosses barred him from pursuing any other public corruption cases. That brought the entire Abramoff investigation to halt.