Did someone in the Bush administration act to protect uber-corrupt GOP moneyman Jack Abramoff? The FBI is looking into it, according to the NY Times.
The Justice Department's inspector general and the F.B.I. are looking into the demotion of a veteran federal prosecutor whose reassignment nearly three years ago shut down a criminal investigation of the Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff, current and former department officials report.
They said investigators had questioned whether the demotion of the prosecutor, Frederick A. Black, in November 2002 was related to his alert to Justice Department officials days earlier that he was investigating Mr. Abramoff. The lobbyist is a major Republican Party fund-raiser and a close friend of several Congressional leaders.
Who knows if there is fire in this particular angle, but there certainly is smoke. At this point it is just a question of how wide the scandal circle is going to extend and how long the Abramoff Frog March is going to be.
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