When, in the 1990s, Congress began criticizing the Northern Mariana Islands’ labor policies, few people in Washington were as familiar with the politics of the U.S. territory as Roger Stillwell. But Stillwell’s 1995 assignment to help then-lobbyist Jack Abramoff get up to speed on the South Pacific islands “would prove to be his undoing,” his lawyer wrote in recently disclosed court papers.
The documents, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, shed new light on how Stillwell forged a relationship with Abramoff, who in the 1990s helped the Mariana Islands fend off congressional efforts to set minimum wage and immigration laws in the U.S. territory’s free-trade manufacturing zone. The details illustrate the fine line between friendship and impropriety that marked many of Abramoff’s relationships in Washington.
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