Guam envoy to Congress calls for Abramoff investigation

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http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Guam_envoy_to_Congress_calls_for_Abramoff_investiga_0823.html


The ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, joined by Guam's Democratic representative to the United States House of Representatives issued a call to the Justice Department to investigate the demotion of a prosecutor who was investigating Bush fundraiser and megalobbyist Jack Abramoff, RAW STORY has learned.

Judiciary Democrat John Conyers (D-MI) and Rep. Madeleine Z. Bordallo, Guam's non-voting delegate to the U.S. Congress, called on the Department's Inspector General to "conduct an investigation into the November 2002 demotion of former Acting United States Attorney for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands, Frederick A. Black."

"We are troubled by an August 7, 2005, report in the Los Angeles Times that suggests this demotion was politically motivated," the members write.

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Black was an aggressive prosecutor, ferreting out corruption in the Guam government. He was replaced with a prosecutor with a lighter hand, possibly at the behest of Bush adviser Karl Rove.

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