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Ted Stevens to be indicted
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Posted on 07/29/2008 9:46:05 AM PDT by ConservativeMan55

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department has indicted Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, on seven counts of making false statements to federal officers investigating an Alaska businessman.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: bridgetonowhere; congress; corruption; electioncongress; elections; one; stevens; tedstevens
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To: ConservativeMan55

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f99PcP0aFNE


21 posted on 07/29/2008 10:04:47 AM PDT by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: Red Steel

Who can Palin appoint to serve out the rest of Stevens term (and replace him in the November election)?


22 posted on 07/29/2008 10:04:56 AM PDT by freespirited ("With friends like Obama, who needs Al-Qaeda?" -- Clinton supporter on FOX News)
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To: trumandogz

heh.


23 posted on 07/29/2008 10:05:32 AM PDT by LimberJim
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To: ConservativeMan55

I never liked this guy. I could tell that he was a greedy, corrupt scumbag.


24 posted on 07/29/2008 10:06:38 AM PDT by jpl ("Present." - Barack Obama)
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To: freespirited

I’m not that up on Alaskan politics. I knew of Begich because of the Rasmussen polling.


25 posted on 07/29/2008 10:07:03 AM PDT by Red Steel
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To: ConservativeMan55

Ted is one of the biggest crooks up there. It is time for him to serve time.


26 posted on 07/29/2008 10:09:27 AM PDT by bmwcyle (If God wanted us to be Socialist, Karl Marx would have been born in America.)
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To: ConservativeMan55

US officials say the Justice Department has indicted Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens (R) on charges related to a long-running investigation of business dealings in Alaska.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/07/29/1231246.aspx


27 posted on 07/29/2008 10:09:55 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: ConservativeMan55

The FBI, working with an Alaska oil contractor, secretly taped telephone calls with Sen. Ted Stevens as part of a public corruption sting it was reported late last year, according to people close to the investigation.

The secret recordings suggest the Justice Department was eyeing Stevens long before June 2007, when the Republican senator first publicly acknowledged he was under scrutiny. At that time, it appeared Stevens was a new focus in a case that had already ensnared several state lawmakers.

http://cbs11tv.com/national/ted.stevens.indicted.2.782698.html


28 posted on 07/29/2008 10:11:40 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: ConservativeMan55

I wonder if oov Sarah Palin can appoint herself to fill his seat? She’s getting good press.


29 posted on 07/29/2008 10:13:20 AM PDT by ctpaul
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To: ConservativeMan55

Absolutely! He’s a disgrace to the party. But what’s worse is that the Republican leadership has continued to support clowns like this. If I remember right, he’s been under investigation for awhile. With this and his pork-barrel spending rants, the Republican leadership should have cut his nuts off and supported a primary challenger. It’s not like there’s been any cohesion among Republican senators to disrupt.


30 posted on 07/29/2008 10:13:21 AM PDT by Emo4SC (Disclaimer: All thoughts expressed here are not my own, but merely what I've been told by Talk Radio)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Stevens faces seven counts of false statements involving VECO, the oil services company in Alaska, and the renovations done on his home.


31 posted on 07/29/2008 10:13:28 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: ConservativeMan55

Right!

TERM LIMITS!

~ ~ ~ ~

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=5472830

Sen. Ted Stevens from Alaska,

the longest serving U.S. Republican senator ever,

was indicted on seven counts related to his holding of public office, a federal law enforcement official said on Tuesday.

The U.S. Justice Department has scheduled a news conference for 1:20 p.m. to make an announcement “regarding a significant criminal matter.”

~~~~

Absolute power corrupts absolutely.


32 posted on 07/29/2008 10:15:33 AM PDT by STARWISE (They (Dims) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
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To: bmwcyle

He is the Robert Byrd of the GOP


33 posted on 07/29/2008 10:15:47 AM PDT by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Good, what took them so long?


34 posted on 07/29/2008 10:16:19 AM PDT by TornadoAlley3 ('GOP' : Get Our Petroleum)
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To: Steely Tom
Wasn’t there just a big bunch of indictments announced in Ohio, involving mostly Dems? Add this to the Ford problems in Tennessee, and (possibly) issues arising in NOLA, and you have the need to find a Republican bad guy for balance.

No, you need a Republican for the front page, above-the-fold, and then they'll bury the Dems somewhere on page G-12.

35 posted on 07/29/2008 10:16:55 AM PDT by Dr.Deth
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To: ConservativeMan55
Fox News is going to broadcast a presser by the Justice Dept. on the 7 indictments when it starts.
36 posted on 07/29/2008 10:21:10 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Now they just need to go after Obama, Clinton, and Reid for their under-the-table real estate shenanigans.


37 posted on 07/29/2008 10:22:13 AM PDT by gore_sux (Help defeat the override six! - support Keith Downey and Jan Schneider in MN41)
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To: Emo4SC
Absolutely! He’s a disgrace to the party. But what’s worse is that the Republican leadership has continued to support clowns like this.

My sis, the social worker, once asked me how Republicans were any different from Democrats. She's a liberal, of course.

I responded that, when a GOP politician was found with his hand in the till (or his hand on the young men), conservatives in the party will disown him and actively work for his removal.

Democrat officials and voters, however, seem to circle the wagons around their most corrupt and amoral. See William Jefferson...

If Stevens were a Democrat, this wouldn't be a big deal -- to the party, the media...or the liberal voters. But, since Stevens is a Republican, he's friggin' doomed.

And good riddance.

38 posted on 07/29/2008 10:22:20 AM PDT by okie01 (THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: trumandogz

Seven charges of making false statements.

Politicans are legally allowed to lie. This goes nowhere, but Stevens is 86 and deserves to retire and go on the Veterans’ Dinner talk circuit.


39 posted on 07/29/2008 10:24:11 AM PDT by RightWhale (I will veto each and every beer)
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To: okie01

Look how they went after Larry Craig and David Vitter.


40 posted on 07/29/2008 10:24:43 AM PDT by trumandogz ("He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper and it worries me." Sen Cochran on McCain)
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