Vice President Dick Cheney has been linked to Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, who the Justice Department has accused of seven counts of falsely reporting hundreds of thousands of dollars, Newsweek reported.
In a conversation secretly recorded by the FBI on June 25, 2006, Stevens "discussed ways to get a pipeline bill through the Alaska Legislature with Bill Allen, an oil-services executive accused of providing the senator with about $250,000 in undisclosed financial benefits."
Stevens told Allen: "I'm gonna try to see if I can get some bigwigs from back here and say, 'Look … you gotta get this done'."
Only two days later, Cheney took the unusual step of writing a letter to the Alaska legislature which pushed the members to "promptly enact" a bill that would approve the pipeline.
Stevens revealed that he asked the vice president to send such a letter.
The Justice Department's corruption case against Stevens is trying to prove that he used his political influence to help Allen's business in the oil and gas industry in return for large payments for renovations to his home.
But the prosecutors have not mentioned Cheney's letter and the department spokesperson did not respond to Newsweek's requests about it was not included or if Cheney would appear at Stevens' trial.
Stevens is the longest-serving Republican in the Senate and a figure in Alaskan politics before statehood.
Wire services contributed to this report.
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Showing posts with label Senator Ted Stevens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Senator Ted Stevens. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Senator "Bridge To Nowhere" Is Guilty As Hell.
This is a good argument for term limits! Seems that the longer people are in D.C. the more vulnerable they are to corruption. They even manage to convince themselves that they have done nothing wrong. It's sad really.
In 1999, Pakistan was desperately trying to remove its U.S. military and economic sanctions. Rep. Ted Stevens (R-AK) “was the chairman of the conference committee that was considering allowing that change.” Stevens “made it clear that he wanted Pakistan to resolve a multimillion-dollar dispute with an Alaskan construction and engineering company, VECO, owned by his close friend Bill Allen”:
Stevens raised the issue of a contract dispute VECO was having with Pakistan over payment for VECO’s participation in construction of a pipeline. He wanted Pakistan to resolve it.
Some of the people involved maintain that Stevens said he would not pass the provision until VECO was taken care of, while others said his intervention was more benign.
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Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Ted Stevens Gets Raided
Wonder of the found a big bunch of guilty e-mails clogging up the Senator's Internet "tubes?"
(In case you missed, Stevens once said, in a speech about Net-neutrality, that a reason there should be different levels of Internet service, coz as it is, there is simply too much stuff on the Internet and it's causing all those tubes to get clogged.... or something like that. Utter stupidity, nonetheless.
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The Nazis, Fascists and Communists were political parties before they became enemies of liberty and mass murderers.
(In case you missed, Stevens once said, in a speech about Net-neutrality, that a reason there should be different levels of Internet service, coz as it is, there is simply too much stuff on the Internet and it's causing all those tubes to get clogged.... or something like that. Utter stupidity, nonetheless.
FBI, IRS Search Home of U.S. Sen. Stevens, Who Has Been Scrutinized in Corruption Probe
Staff
AP News
Jul 30, 2007 18:57 EDT
Agents from the FBI and Internal Revenue Service on Monday searched the home of U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, an official said.
Investigators arrived at the Republican senator's home in Girdwood shortly before 2:30 p.m. Alaska time, said Dave Heller, FBI assistant special agent.
Heller said he could not comment on the nature of the investigation.
The Justice Department has been looking into the seven-term senator's relationship with a wealthy contractor as part of a public corruption investigation.
Source: AP News
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The Nazis, Fascists and Communists were political parties before they became enemies of liberty and mass murderers.
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