Now Guam wants a piece of Abramoff!

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http://www.guampdn.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060113/NEWS01/601130302/1002

Special investigation urged
By Gaynor Dumat-ol Daleno
Pacific Daily News

Five Democrats in Congress, including Guam Delegate Madeleine Bordallo, have renewed their call for a special counsel outside of the Justice Department to investigate Jack Abramoff's Guam and the Northern Marianas lobbying ties.

The Justice Department response to the Democrats' October request for such an investigation has been inadequate, the lawmakers wrote Jan. 11.

In their letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the lawmakers asked for a special counsel to investigate:
# Allegations that Frederick Black, the former acting U.S. Attorney for Guam and the Northern Marianas, was replaced in November 2002 because he had secured a subpoena as part of a Guam investigation into Abramoff. The subpoena sought documents of the Superior Court of Guam payments to California attorney Howard Hills, who forwarded about $400,000 to Abramoff, according to documents obtained by the Pacific Daily News.

# Allegations that Abramoff, according to the lawmakers' letter, allegedly "had influenced senior (Justice) officials to suppress" an immigration report on the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, which Black had requested in the wake of the 9-11 terror attacks. The CNMI's political status under the U.S. flag allows foreigners to enter the islands without the U.S. government's visa screening process.

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1. They'll have to wait until January 2007

if they want a real investigation instead of a whitewash.