Posted on 07/31/2007 12:17:54 AM PDT by Cinnamon
WASHINGTON, July 30 The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service raided the Alaska home of Senator Ted Stevens on Monday in search of evidence about his relationship to a businessman who oversaw a remodeling project that almost doubled the size of the senators house, federal law enforcement officials said.
The decision to raid the home suggests that the corruption investigation focused on Mr. Stevens, a long-serving Republican and former chairman, has taken on new urgency.
The businessman, Bill J. Allen, the founder of an oil fields service company that has won tens of millions of dollars in federal contracts with the senators help, has pleaded guilty to bribing state legislators.
The F.B.I. confirmed that the r
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One of the two contractors is claiming that their billing went to the oil services company first and then on to Stevens. If that proves true or even believable, he’ll be dragging down Republican chances in 2008 again.
Works for me.
Yes. That’s why I said something about the case hinging on ‘Who’ paid the bills.
One of the contractors who worked on the job said that he was hired by Veco CEO Bill Allen for the job and that although his bills were paid by Stevens and his wife, Catherine, invoices were reviewed first by Veco.
Contractors have told a federal grand jury that in 2000, Veco executives oversaw a lavish remodeling of Stevens home in Girdwood...
If this represents a lavish remodel, then this place must have been a tarpaper shack at the get-go.
I'm guessing that the second story was added to a one level home (to have almost doubled the sq footage). If that's the case, most likely that extensive work was needed to support the load of a second floor.
This smells like a witch hunt.
His website is actually fairly well designed for speed and his emails do not bog down the inbox.
ok.... help me out please... whats up with the tubes..I don’t understand
I do not care how the Liberals treat this case.
If he is corrupt, he MUST go. And if they shame him...par for the course.
He's not. He has been totally public. Also, although he is 83 he could still drive that WW II bomber if he had to.
I’ll wait to hear what the Feds have on him.
He has already said a month ago he paid for the work out of his own pocket. He says now that we should not be jumping to conclusions at this point and I assume that applied to Rep Young as well.
Here is the audio...
Oh yes, apparently he met Jack Abramoff, so therefore the MSM pronounces him guilty.
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