Posted on 05/29/2007 8:57:29 PM PDT by thegreatbeast
The FBI and a federal grand jury have been investigating an extensive remodeling project on the Alaska home of Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in Senate history, according to the Anchorage Daily News.
The investigation apparently stems from an ongoing public corruption probe that has already entangled Stevens' son, Ben, but the direct link remains unclear.
One of the contractors interviewed in the piece said an oil-field services company embroiled in the broader investigation reviewed each of his invoices for the extensive remodeling project on the senator's home. Two top company executives pleaded guilty on May 7 to federal conspiracy, bribery and tax charges, and both are cooperating with investigators, according to the article.
I wonder if he could refer me to someone to fix my central air unit since he has all those contracting leads????
/wiza gurl
Why don’t they do us all a favor and investigate every one of the crooks? It’s not like they’re spending time watching the border.
But he's been in the Senate an awfully long time.
And the 'earmark pig' isn't Stevens, it's Young (in the House). Young is the idiot who earmarked the 'Bridge to Nowhere' in Ketchikan (to serve <14,000 people).
LOL!!
Than Young can give me the referral.
I still need my air fixed :)
I’ll take it back if someone can show me differently.
I guess the FBI is too busy to actually prosecute “Cold Cash” Jefferson. $70k in frozen bribe money? Sorry, need more hard evidence. Home remodel? Let’s GET HIM!
If Senator Byrd is the Emperor Palpatine of pork, then Ted Stevens has clear aspirations to be his Darth Vader. The Dark Side of the pork Force runs strong with this one, and it runs straight over a Bridge To Nowhere. But it isn't so much the mere fact of Stevens' ability to bring the bacon back to Alaska that makes him Hall of Shame material: it's the fierce pride with which he does it. His impassioned vow on the floor of the Senate to "be taken out of here on a stretcher" if Senator Tom Coburn's effort to de-fund the famed Bridge passed has entered into the annals of Senate history --- and his continued devotion to Pork has landed him in our Hall of Shame.
Ted Stevens’ Son Identified In Corruption Case
By Laura McGann - May 8, 2007, 12:11 PM
Roll Call (sub req.) and the Anchorage Daily News named Ben Stevens, son of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), as one of the unidentified legislators involved in the VECO cash-for-favors corruption scheme.
According to charges filed Friday against two top executives at the oil company, Stevens’ company allegedly received $243,250 for consulting fees that were “in fact for the purpose of obtaining (Stevens’) official support on matters pending before the Alaska State Legislature.”
Ben’s dad, Sen. Stevens, is pals with one of the executives, Bill J. Allen, who pled guilty to bribery charges yesterday. The two men belong to a group that bought a race horse named “So Long Birdie,” for a bargain-basement price of $40,000 in 2005.
Allen and his wife also have hosted numerous fundraising events for Stevens, as well as his fellow members of the Alaska delegation, Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R) and Rep. Don Young (R). A preliminary review of campaign finance records shows Allen and other executives at VECO have made $206,900 in campaign contributions to the Alaska delegation, with more than $72,000 of that total going to Ted Stevens.
Ted Stevens does not seem to be on prosecutors’ radar screen in the corruption investigation.
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Comment: The guy’s name is Ray Metcalf(e?). He was a former state rep way, way back in the day. He’s now a school bus driver with the Teamsters. My dad is real good freinds with him, so I know him fairly well in passing. For years now I’ve known about his dogged drive to expose corruption up here. I always got the feeling that he was just a conspiracy theory nut, of which there are plenty up here. I always figured there were so many ways to be legally crooked that no politician would need to do something illegal. Naive. Well he just kept pouring over the public record for years. The pols were like his white whale. Eventually he built up circumstantial evidence and made noise. He brought charges against Ben several times. They were always thrown out, but it just kept up the pressure. Eventually someone must have paid a lot of attention because finally the feds came in a raided some offices of the “Corrupt Bastards Caucus”, which is what all the pols called themselves. The rumor is that they even printed CBC hats and shirts. So ever since the raids this story has unravelled a legislator at a time. The wonderful state rep. from my par of town was the first to go because there were records of him literally promising a Quid Pro Quo. The biggest thing is that Ray did this for free. This wasn’t a political watchdg group or a team of lawyers. It was just a citizen that decided he hated what he saw.
Posted by: ryan
Date: May 8, 2007 06:35 PM
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003172.php
...AND TEAMSTER!
I’ll bet Stevens found the contractor on the internets, it is a series of tubes!
Stevens will vote for the Kennedy Bush immigration amnesty bill.
He wants to keep all the cheap fish workers and mexican workers for the pipeline.
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