It's been a while since Jack Abramoff plowed through the island of Guam in Corvette style and rolled Fred Black off of his lobbying windshield. Maybe we can check it out through the rearview.

The mirror was recently adjusted by TPM with their piece on Juan Carlos Benitez. He lobbied for the Western Pacific Economic Council, which in essence, is Willie Tan & the Garment Manufacturers.

Tan & friends formed Western Pacific and had to start paying their own way on lobbying when Gov Pedro Tenorio dumped Abramoff in 1998. 

Western Pacific hired Juan Carlos Benitez on March 12 2003, just a few weeks after Ramona Jones was appointed by Bush as the Special Advisor For Economic Policy For The Insular Areas. Ramona Jones just happens to be the wife of Benitez. (fireupamerica.com)

Benitez originally hitchhiked his way into DC with the Bar Association of Puerto Rico. And, another adventurous traveler, by the name of Michael Scanlon, did the same with the American Bar Association. 

Apparently, it's a lawyer thing. If you can't attend Regent University and corrupt the DOJ, or run a corrupt front like Robin Vanderwall's Faith & Family Alliance, then you go to Guam.

It's like handing Ashcroft the keys to the Vette by him speaking at Toward Tradition and then telling him not to rev the motor at DOJ.

A lot of questions remain that have thus far outdistanced the American public's bicycle rider. And, have apparently outlived OUR Justice Department.