On November 7 Black informed the DOJ of his preliminary investigation of Abramoff. Days later, Guam's new Republican Governor, Felix Camacho, wrote a letter to the White House asking to keep Black on. Yet on November 19, a day after Black subpoenaed the Abramoff contract, the Administration announced that it was nominating Rapadas. Black was subsequently barred from handling any public corruption cases.

A more extensive treatment on the case of Fred Black. They did it once, and no one noticed. Then they canned Graves and no one noticed. Then they went too far and everyone noticed. And all of it goes right to the White House. This one is not going away.