Alaska Home of Senator Is Raided by U.S. Agents

New York Times ^ | July 31, 2007 | PHILIP SHENON

[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 senator’s 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 senator’s help, has pleaded guilty to bribing state legislators.

The F.B.I. confirmed that the r

[Ingtar]

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.

[FreedomPoster]

Works for me.

[elli1]

Yes. That’s why I said something about the case hinging on ‘Who’ paid the bills.

[elli1]

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.

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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.

[KC_Conspirator]

This smells like a witch hunt.

[RightWhale]

along with his abysmal ignorance about the technologies he’s passing laws on

His website is actually fairly well designed for speed and his emails do not bog down the inbox.

[Dixie Yooper]

If they want to bust him for something, they could at least go after him for something he really did. Wasn’t he one of Jack Abramoff’s buddies?

[Gone_Postal]

ok.... help me out please... whats up with the tubes..I don’t understand

[VaBthang4]

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.

[RightWhale]

If he is corrupt

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.

[VaBthang4]

I’ll wait to hear what the Feds have on him.

[RightWhale]

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.

[akorahil]

"The Internet is like a series of tubes..."

Here is the audio...

[KC_Conspirator]

Oh yes, apparently he met Jack Abramoff, so therefore the MSM pronounces him guilty.

[Dixie Yooper]

Stevens and the other Republican fiscal terrorists in the senate and house are the ones most responsible for handing congress over to the Democrats who are just as bad. Nothing annoys me more than hearing the MSM reminding us daily that it’s the war in Iraq that did it. I just wish the Justice Department would find something worthwile that woult put him and others like him away for several years. I guess when your in power as many years as Stevens has been, you start thinking your powerful.