Posted on 09/26/2007 7:27:40 AM PDT by skeptoid
Former legislator likely faces four years or more in prison
Former state Rep. Pete Kott, a 14-year veteran of the Legislature and one-time House speaker, was convicted Tuesday by a federal jury of conspiring with Veco Corp. executives to push an oil tax favored by industry.
Jurors convicted the Eagle River Republican of conspiracy, bribery and extortion. They acquitted him of a fourth felony charge, wire fraud, that was based on a single cell phone conversation that went across state lines.
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What a shot, eh?
BILL ROTH / Anchorage Daily News
Former Rep. Pete Kott leaves the U.S. courthouse in Anchorage
on Tuesday, September 25, 2007, after a jury returned guilty verdicts
on three of four corruption charges. Kott was found guilty of bribery, conspiracy
and extortion. Jurors found him not guilty on one count of wire fraud.
BILL ROTH / Anchorage Daily News
Former Rep. Pete Kott of Eagle River leaves the U.S. Courthosue in Anchrorage
with his daughter Pamela, left, and his girlfriend Debora Stovern, right, after a
federal jury returned guilty verdicts on charges of bribery, conspiracy
and extortion Tuesday Sept. 25, 2007.
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