Documents in the case against former Senate aide Ann Copland include a series of e-mail messages from lobbyists who provided her with gifts and e-mails she sent complaining about some of the perks:
_"She'll get everything she wants," wrote former lobbyist Jack Abramoff after learning that Copland had asked for tickets to performances by Paul McCartney, 'NSync and Green Day, a skating event and a hockey game. She also asked for tickets to the circus, but only if they were floor seats.
_"To be honest, she's more valuable to us than a rank and file House member," wrote lobbyist Todd Boulanger, describing Copland to Abramoff. Their e-mail exchange was about whether to change her box seat tickets for a Washington Redskins game to a less desirable luxury box.
_"Ackkk. Only beer and no Hebrew National hot dogs," Copland complained in a June 2003 e-mail to Boulanger about the luxury suite he provided at Baltimore's Camden Yards for an Orioles baseball game.
_"Hey, I've got no food and party of fourteen ... I'm freaking out here," Copland wrote to Boulanger from the firm's box suite at a Washington ice-skating event in May 2003. He responded that she would be reimbursed if she had to buy food herself.
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