More Abramoff emails: ‘Wicked Witch’ targeted over a dinner in Waikiki

Jack Abramoff called her the Wicked Witch of the West. “WWW” for short in his e-mails. And he wanted to burn her.


Joan Plaisted, a career foreign service officer, was ambassador to the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI) in 1998, when the island nation hired Abramoff and his firm to battle the United States on a multibillion-dollar aid agreement.


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The e-mails also reveal an early relationship with Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) — who has denied any involvement with Abramoff and is now under scrutiny for several non-Abramoff-related matters — along with a tendency to drop the name of then-House Majority Whip Tom DeLay (R-Texas), whose relationship to Abramoff remains under investigation.


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